3D
The Fantastic Voyage
by DeeAnn Vandergriff @WarDrobeInSpareOom · submitted Jul 7, 2009 · 2009 contest
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Description
In the town where I was born, there lived a man who sailed to sea. And he told me of his life in the land of submarines.
True story.
Anyhow, for my Threadcakes entry, I wanted to base it on a t-shirt I have. Being a fan of Terry Fan (say that nine times fast. No, really. Go ahead. I'll wait.), I got to see Fantastic Voyage on his Flickr before it was even subbed (HA! It's a pun! 'Cause....you know...sub is short for both submarine and submit? Eh? Is this thing on?), and I fell in love with it immediately.
The cake itself is one box of Duncan Hines yellow cake mix cooked in a 9x5 loaf pan, and then carved to look more submarine-y. I then covered it with premade buttercream icing. The portholes were royal icing poured onto wax paper in circular shapes, than painted with teal gel dye.
The fondant, oh, the fondant. (Is that reference a reach? I mean, flying submarines and zeppelins are practically the same thing, right?) This was my first experience with it, so I bought premade fondant (which is truly what evil must taste like), and died it brown. I then had a couple of disastrous adventures trying to cover the cake...think of it as the submarine taking on water or sitting through that Harrison-Ford-as-a-Russian movie. My idea to place the fondant on in squares to simulate bulkheads was clearly not the way to go. I nearly gave up before deciding to remove my tattered shreds of fondant, and just recover the thing, then added the faux seams with a wooden skewer and painted it an antique-y color.
All in all, the whole process stretched over five days (with a lot of waiting for drying and such) and the cake was pretty decent if you ate around the fondant.
True story.
Anyhow, for my Threadcakes entry, I wanted to base it on a t-shirt I have. Being a fan of Terry Fan (say that nine times fast. No, really. Go ahead. I'll wait.), I got to see Fantastic Voyage on his Flickr before it was even subbed (HA! It's a pun! 'Cause....you know...sub is short for both submarine and submit? Eh? Is this thing on?), and I fell in love with it immediately.
The cake itself is one box of Duncan Hines yellow cake mix cooked in a 9x5 loaf pan, and then carved to look more submarine-y. I then covered it with premade buttercream icing. The portholes were royal icing poured onto wax paper in circular shapes, than painted with teal gel dye.
The fondant, oh, the fondant. (Is that reference a reach? I mean, flying submarines and zeppelins are practically the same thing, right?) This was my first experience with it, so I bought premade fondant (which is truly what evil must taste like), and died it brown. I then had a couple of disastrous adventures trying to cover the cake...think of it as the submarine taking on water or sitting through that Harrison-Ford-as-a-Russian movie. My idea to place the fondant on in squares to simulate bulkheads was clearly not the way to go. I nearly gave up before deciding to remove my tattered shreds of fondant, and just recover the thing, then added the faux seams with a wooden skewer and painted it an antique-y color.
All in all, the whole process stretched over five days (with a lot of waiting for drying and such) and the cake was pretty decent if you ate around the fondant.
