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Liberty Nor Safety

by Julie Freund · submitted Jul 9, 2010 · 2010 contest

Liberty Nor Safety cake by Julie Freund

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I have to say if Threadcakes has taught me anything, it's that I NEED a new camera. One that actually takes a close-up and doesn't have an atomic bomb sized flash.

Another shirt design I love. Hope it gets reprinted (hint, hint:)

The cake is pistachio, with homemade fudgy/almond icing, and marshmallow fondant for decoration. I baked, carved, frosted, and covered the cake in fondant: and then realized I should have shaped it a lot differently. It kept reminding me of a panda gone wrong. At that point it was too late to start over. The humidity was wreaking havoc with this one- sweaty, bulgy fondant, etc...

I ended up slapping on some extra fondant on the back of the skull to bulk it up a bit; though it keeps sagging a little:( The 3 figures on the board are gumpaste painted with food color & vodka (like the rest of the cake) and the 3 on wires are melted chocolate. The skeleton hands on the gumpaste figures are also chocolate.

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