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The Prophecy of the Great St Scott
by Natasha Baker · submitted Nov 24, 2015 · 2015 contest
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I again had a fair few choices in the pipeline for my cake this year, but being as it is finally the year where everything in back to the future has now happened in the past, not to mention the awesome design, this was the obvious choice.
Call me crazy, but I really enjoyed the meticulous and precise fondant cutting from last year’s entry and decided to up my game by adding my other love of edible paints. I really enjoy painting and the fact you can eat it after is just a bonus.
I started by making a couple of copies of my design, keeping one aside to use as a reference. I then began cutting around the main window shapes and then some of the main shapes like the characters. Next, I rolled out my icing to a uniform thickness (randomly, dried spaghetti works brilliantly for this) and began using a scalpel to cut them out.
I then mixed up the main colours I would be needing and cut the rest of the shapes out until I had full plaques.
I used a pin to mark my guide lines and then began the long and painstaking painting of all those outlines.
The best method I have found for making edible paint colours is by melting cocoa butter on a saucer over a bowl of boiling water and then mixing it with petal and dusting colours, it gives a really rich finish! I used different tones for each colour to give it a bit of depth and finished by using the pastel colour powders to add shading and highlighting.
I had a feeling the plaques were going to take a while (a handy lesson from last year) so I baked the cake when I was almost finished with them. I went for a large coffee and walnut sheet cake with coffee and vanilla bean buttercream, yum! After I had smothered and smoothed the buttercream, I covered the cake in jet black fondant.
Last year I made the cake white and airbrushed it as I literally HATE colouring black icing. It did look great ……however……I also had a black kitchen after, so went for the easier option this year!
I then positioned the stained glass windows using my template as a guide.
Can’t wait to see everyone’s finished designs!
Call me crazy, but I really enjoyed the meticulous and precise fondant cutting from last year’s entry and decided to up my game by adding my other love of edible paints. I really enjoy painting and the fact you can eat it after is just a bonus.
I started by making a couple of copies of my design, keeping one aside to use as a reference. I then began cutting around the main window shapes and then some of the main shapes like the characters. Next, I rolled out my icing to a uniform thickness (randomly, dried spaghetti works brilliantly for this) and began using a scalpel to cut them out.
I then mixed up the main colours I would be needing and cut the rest of the shapes out until I had full plaques.
I used a pin to mark my guide lines and then began the long and painstaking painting of all those outlines.
The best method I have found for making edible paint colours is by melting cocoa butter on a saucer over a bowl of boiling water and then mixing it with petal and dusting colours, it gives a really rich finish! I used different tones for each colour to give it a bit of depth and finished by using the pastel colour powders to add shading and highlighting.
I had a feeling the plaques were going to take a while (a handy lesson from last year) so I baked the cake when I was almost finished with them. I went for a large coffee and walnut sheet cake with coffee and vanilla bean buttercream, yum! After I had smothered and smoothed the buttercream, I covered the cake in jet black fondant.
Last year I made the cake white and airbrushed it as I literally HATE colouring black icing. It did look great ……however……I also had a black kitchen after, so went for the easier option this year!
I then positioned the stained glass windows using my template as a guide.
Can’t wait to see everyone’s finished designs!
