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Fail
by Kelly Howard · submitted Aug 16, 2011 · 2011 contest
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Description
I chose Fail for my cake mostly because it was cute! and I saw it as a good beginning for hopefully more difficult cakes in the future!
I made the three cakes on the first day. All chocolate from our antique Betty Crocker recipe book, with some cinnamon thrown in for me. It took a bit longer than expected because the third cake was made separately--didn't realize how much cake I needed!
The second day I made the frosting, iced my two base layers together, and colored and rolled out the green fondant for the grass. I spent about nine hours putting everything together (my first time working with fondant). I carved the mountain/night sky, used two small skewers to make sure it stayed on the cake after I found out it wouldn't stay on its own. I wrapped dark green fondant around the base of the mountain, and draped purple fondant over and cut it to the shape I wanted. I mixed all the fondant colors myself, starting with a white base. I made the cows, moon, and two trees by rolling cake and wrapping it with fondant.
I wanted to use chocolate for the tree trunks, but my experiment did work--the chocolate came out too soft. So I took two lollipop sticks, and used the chocolate to coat them, and paint branches and trunks on all the trees.
Then I worked on the small details--cutting the picket fence, as well as cutting out the barn, hay, other trees, and tacking them on the cake with water.
The final day I finished with the decorations (the sleeping cows) and painted the 'z's and other details with chocolate and some food coloring. My final step was sticking the moon and the last cow on top of the sky (I had carved out a ledge for them before covering the mountain in fondant), and adding some gold dust to the moon and stars!
My sisters came home and helped me eat the cake! We all enjoyed it, and even the cows seemed to like eating the cake, too!
I made the three cakes on the first day. All chocolate from our antique Betty Crocker recipe book, with some cinnamon thrown in for me. It took a bit longer than expected because the third cake was made separately--didn't realize how much cake I needed!
The second day I made the frosting, iced my two base layers together, and colored and rolled out the green fondant for the grass. I spent about nine hours putting everything together (my first time working with fondant). I carved the mountain/night sky, used two small skewers to make sure it stayed on the cake after I found out it wouldn't stay on its own. I wrapped dark green fondant around the base of the mountain, and draped purple fondant over and cut it to the shape I wanted. I mixed all the fondant colors myself, starting with a white base. I made the cows, moon, and two trees by rolling cake and wrapping it with fondant.
I wanted to use chocolate for the tree trunks, but my experiment did work--the chocolate came out too soft. So I took two lollipop sticks, and used the chocolate to coat them, and paint branches and trunks on all the trees.
Then I worked on the small details--cutting the picket fence, as well as cutting out the barn, hay, other trees, and tacking them on the cake with water.
The final day I finished with the decorations (the sleeping cows) and painted the 'z's and other details with chocolate and some food coloring. My final step was sticking the moon and the last cow on top of the sky (I had carved out a ledge for them before covering the mountain in fondant), and adding some gold dust to the moon and stars!
My sisters came home and helped me eat the cake! We all enjoyed it, and even the cows seemed to like eating the cake, too!