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Drop it like you're clumsy

by burton wills · submitted Jul 8, 2009 · 2009 contest

Drop it like you're clumsy cake by burton wills

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I did.

I think I lucked out on the "blast radius" as most of the lettering survived enough that it can still be read. I wanted to try to keep close to Joe Van Wetering's typography as that is the primary link to the shirt design.

As you can see, I started with a chocolate brownie cake from a family recipe. Well, you can see that it is chocolate cake. The brownie part and the family recipe part you'll just have to take on faith.

I covered the cake in a less attractive shade of green fondant then decorated the cake board to look like my floor (bathroom floor actually but it was easier to do than the kitchen floor). Plate shards are made from white fondant.

I tried to encourage the cake breakage in certain areas but this was mostly in vain. It split where it split and there's no do-over.

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