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Call of the Wild
by John & Yvonne @Team Bog · submitted Aug 5, 2010 · 2010 contest
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How BOG the cake came to be…
I’ve never baked a cake before but somehow my cousin Yvonne and I thought it would be a great idea to enter Threadcakes! She bakes, I usually eat, so the deal was that I had to choose the design, co-bake and co-decorate. So many great designs to choose from, I went with “Call of the Wild”. Yvonne’s face dropped. We both liked the design but spent the next hour trying to decide if it was a bear, a dog, a bear/dog – so BOG was born! ?
With not much of a plan in mind we baked a few sheet cakes in chocolate and orange. We made a vanilla butter-cream dyed blue-ish for the background and then realized that if we were to look at the picture of BOG as a whole our brains would melt. The next best idea was to break it into sections. So we cut up the sheet cake into squares, some less square than others, but hey, BOG has personality! ? We frosted the sections, left them to set and then divided up the segments. Once we were looking at BOG in small sections, it seemed slightly more manageable, but super abstract. We had to concentrate really hard on just our particular section to make sure we weren’t overwhelmed with the whole image. We used different icing colors with a skewer, piping bag and frosting brushes. The whole table was covered in what seemed like completely random designs, but lo and behold when we started putting it together we could slowly see BOG start to emerge.
While we may never know if it was bear or dog (actually we are 99% sure bear, but we’re very attached to BOG now) it was lots of fun to bake and decorate.
I’ve never baked a cake before but somehow my cousin Yvonne and I thought it would be a great idea to enter Threadcakes! She bakes, I usually eat, so the deal was that I had to choose the design, co-bake and co-decorate. So many great designs to choose from, I went with “Call of the Wild”. Yvonne’s face dropped. We both liked the design but spent the next hour trying to decide if it was a bear, a dog, a bear/dog – so BOG was born! ?
With not much of a plan in mind we baked a few sheet cakes in chocolate and orange. We made a vanilla butter-cream dyed blue-ish for the background and then realized that if we were to look at the picture of BOG as a whole our brains would melt. The next best idea was to break it into sections. So we cut up the sheet cake into squares, some less square than others, but hey, BOG has personality! ? We frosted the sections, left them to set and then divided up the segments. Once we were looking at BOG in small sections, it seemed slightly more manageable, but super abstract. We had to concentrate really hard on just our particular section to make sure we weren’t overwhelmed with the whole image. We used different icing colors with a skewer, piping bag and frosting brushes. The whole table was covered in what seemed like completely random designs, but lo and behold when we started putting it together we could slowly see BOG start to emerge.
While we may never know if it was bear or dog (actually we are 99% sure bear, but we’re very attached to BOG now) it was lots of fun to bake and decorate.