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We Were Tomatoes
by Tina Lee · submitted Aug 3, 2012 · 2012 contest
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Began cooking pound cake for the tomato bottle and tomatoes on 7/29/12. What a day to start! First I had to drive to town to get the ingredients. It was about 5:48pm when I began to bake and the temperature had reached 101 outside. This normally would not be an issue, but the air conditioner decided to die that day so the added heat made it just THAT much more fun.
7/30/12 - Started off well enough. Began butter icing and putting together the cupcakes to form into the tomatoes. It was going well until I realized that because of the heat the icing was melting. So I set up my cupcake pan with tripod toothpicks set into the cupcakes to sit in the freezer to get cold. Well all was well at first but of course that is the voice of doom…. The ice trays fell into the cupcakes so I had to move some things around and re do the icing. . That of course made the ice bag (20 lbs of ice) fall into the cupcake balls. So again, I had to re-do the icing and set in in the freezer.
Meanwhile I began the base of the cake. This is a chocolate vanilla swirl cake. Being the size is I had to make a lot of chocolate and vanilla. While spooning the last of the vanilla cake batter in, my spatula decides to fly apart and the top disappears into the batter and at the same time my batter bowl decides it wants to take a bath in the batter. So after fishing the spatula out, I finished the scraping and put it in to bake! Whew! Lets not forget, still no air conditioning.
For the next two days it was so hot I had to halt production and get that air conditioner working as well as a spend some time being a taxi Mom... with family business out of the way and blessedly cool air running through the house again I let my creative juices flow!!
In the end I decided that the ketchup bottle was actually a robot controlled by a Dr. Evil Tomato! It was a fun project, even with my butter icing melting and this being only the 3rd cake I've ever made with fondant. My kids could not wait to begin eating!!
7/30/12 - Started off well enough. Began butter icing and putting together the cupcakes to form into the tomatoes. It was going well until I realized that because of the heat the icing was melting. So I set up my cupcake pan with tripod toothpicks set into the cupcakes to sit in the freezer to get cold. Well all was well at first but of course that is the voice of doom…. The ice trays fell into the cupcakes so I had to move some things around and re do the icing. . That of course made the ice bag (20 lbs of ice) fall into the cupcake balls. So again, I had to re-do the icing and set in in the freezer.
Meanwhile I began the base of the cake. This is a chocolate vanilla swirl cake. Being the size is I had to make a lot of chocolate and vanilla. While spooning the last of the vanilla cake batter in, my spatula decides to fly apart and the top disappears into the batter and at the same time my batter bowl decides it wants to take a bath in the batter. So after fishing the spatula out, I finished the scraping and put it in to bake! Whew! Lets not forget, still no air conditioning.
For the next two days it was so hot I had to halt production and get that air conditioner working as well as a spend some time being a taxi Mom... with family business out of the way and blessedly cool air running through the house again I let my creative juices flow!!
In the end I decided that the ketchup bottle was actually a robot controlled by a Dr. Evil Tomato! It was a fun project, even with my butter icing melting and this being only the 3rd cake I've ever made with fondant. My kids could not wait to begin eating!!
