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The Last Piece
by Kelly Sink @Saltypants · submitted Aug 5, 2009 · 2009 contest
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Description
So there I was. Watching Cake Boss on TLC and clicking through my list of daily blog reading when I noticed an announcement about this contest posted on Cake Wrecks. On the T.V. Buddy was throwing fondant over a few layers of pound cake. It looked so easy. A couple flourishes with a ruler and a pastry wheel and voila! Easy-peasy-lemon-squeezy.
I immediately knew what I wanted to do. Never mind that I had never worked with fondant before. Forget that I can barely ice a cake decently. I figured that if it didn't turn out how I wanted it to I could at least have a tasty treat and no one need ever know. So I checked the pantry and I found a yellow cake mix on hand and I got to baking. I had to make a trip to Michael's the next day for marzipan and fondant, but it was a rainy Saturday so having an indoor project was nice.
Once the cake was cool I hacked the top down on one side to give it the look of an off-balance table and frosted the whole thing in delicious chocolate frosting. Then I rolled out the fondant and gave it a cloth-like flip over the top.
Then came the fun part. I used marzipan to sculpt my sumo wrestlers and glued them to the side of the cake with a little bit of water. For the piece of sushi I rolled a bit of fondant in smoked sesame seeds and used a bit of orange frosting for the salmon. (It’s the same orange frosting that I used for the wrestler’s mawashi.) I then used some black-tinted piping gel to paint on their topknots and declared the entire thing complete. I packed it over to a friend’s house for cocktails and games, but it turns out four sumo wrestlers were no match for half a dozen mojito-fueled people.
I immediately knew what I wanted to do. Never mind that I had never worked with fondant before. Forget that I can barely ice a cake decently. I figured that if it didn't turn out how I wanted it to I could at least have a tasty treat and no one need ever know. So I checked the pantry and I found a yellow cake mix on hand and I got to baking. I had to make a trip to Michael's the next day for marzipan and fondant, but it was a rainy Saturday so having an indoor project was nice.
Once the cake was cool I hacked the top down on one side to give it the look of an off-balance table and frosted the whole thing in delicious chocolate frosting. Then I rolled out the fondant and gave it a cloth-like flip over the top.
Then came the fun part. I used marzipan to sculpt my sumo wrestlers and glued them to the side of the cake with a little bit of water. For the piece of sushi I rolled a bit of fondant in smoked sesame seeds and used a bit of orange frosting for the salmon. (It’s the same orange frosting that I used for the wrestler’s mawashi.) I then used some black-tinted piping gel to paint on their topknots and declared the entire thing complete. I packed it over to a friend’s house for cocktails and games, but it turns out four sumo wrestlers were no match for half a dozen mojito-fueled people.