2D
Shapeshifting Turtle
by Sidney Blumenthal · submitted Aug 1, 2010 · 2010 contest
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Description
Last year I might have been a little over-ambitious with my design, so I chose a cleaner/simpler design this year, and decided to go with a 2D cake.
I started by finding a delicious pound cake recipe online, and *gasp* baked a cake.
While the cake was baking, I rolled out some fondant, and cut out the shapes I needed for my turtle. I then coated the shapes with sugar sprinkles of various colors. I used vanilla vodka, yes vodka, to adhere the sugar to the fondant, since water makes the fondant very gummy. This worked even better than I expected, but the dye in the sprinkles turned my fingers colors (ha!).
After the cake was done baking and cooling, I cut it down to the size I wanted, and frosted it with butter cream icing. I wanted to maintain the white background of the shirt, so I made the icing look kind of like sand, but white instead of sand color :)
Once the cake was iced, I just had to put the sugar coated fondant onto the cake, and my cake was done!
I started by finding a delicious pound cake recipe online, and *gasp* baked a cake.
While the cake was baking, I rolled out some fondant, and cut out the shapes I needed for my turtle. I then coated the shapes with sugar sprinkles of various colors. I used vanilla vodka, yes vodka, to adhere the sugar to the fondant, since water makes the fondant very gummy. This worked even better than I expected, but the dye in the sprinkles turned my fingers colors (ha!).
After the cake was done baking and cooling, I cut it down to the size I wanted, and frosted it with butter cream icing. I wanted to maintain the white background of the shirt, so I made the icing look kind of like sand, but white instead of sand color :)
Once the cake was iced, I just had to put the sugar coated fondant onto the cake, and my cake was done!
