Escape

One summer afternoon, my friend and I were bored so we decided to make a Threadcake. We started by going online and browsing through all of Threadless' designs. Finally, after about fifteen to twenty minutes of searching, we found one that we thought would be fun to make. We chose the design Escape. To start off the process, we grabbed a good ol' Betty Crocker yellow cake mix, threw it together, and stuck it in the oven for about 30 minutes. While that was baking, we decided to gather all of the things that we needed to decorate our cake. In doing so we found that we were out of blue food coloring, (a cruicial element to this cake) and made a mad dash to the grocery store to buy some more. When we got back home, the cake was ready to be removed from the oven, but then we had to let it cool for ten minutes before we could remove it from the pan. After ten minutes we took out the cake and stuck it in the freezer so that it would be easier to carve and frost. After about an hour and a half of doing nothing worth while in the basement, we took out the cake and started the real challenge, the decoration. We started by cutting the cake with a bread knife to make it look like the image on the shirt (a keyboard key). While one of us labored over that, the other was busy mixing up some delightfully colored blue frosting. Our next step was to carefully move the cake to our display board to frost it, which had it's own challenges. After frosting the main cake, we had to move it to a different sheet of plastic that had no crumbs or mess-ups. Now we had to get into the detailed work of carving the arm, rainbow, surfboard and beach ball.
The first detail we started with was the arm. We decided to cut it very carefully out of the other end of the cake that we had cut off from our main body. To get it near perfect, we drew on the cake with a food safe marker that I happened to find in my pantry. Frosting the cut out arm was a big challenge trying to keep the crumbs out of the frosting, but we managed. The surfboard and rainbow were both made out of a spare piece of cake, then frosted. Making the beach ball was the higlight of the whole day. My friend decided to take all of the little crumbs of cake, and squish them together into a ball, other wise, we wouldnt have been able to frost it. We then decided that the beach ball should not be eaten.
Finally we put all of the finishing touches on, like the writing, the colors and the face, with a pastry bag and many fun decorative tips. The last thing we had to do was clean up our huge mess and enjoy the sweet, delicious cake that, all steps taken account for, took us about five hours to make.