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Fake Pandas Have More Fun
by Brandy Wilson @bwilson9 · submitted Jul 4, 2009 · 2009 contest
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Description
In high school one of my favorite things to do was to draw Far Side cartoons that I had on a day planner, fortunately I have the talent to free hand something in front of me, but unfortunately I don't have the "creative" mind to come up with my own stuff lol. So, when I saw this contest, I figured it would be a PERFECT way to use my talent to draw and my love for making cakes!
This was my first experience with homemade fondant, that was a lot of sticky fun and I'll never use store bought again! I took two sheet cakes, made of spice cake, stacked, butter creamed (extra vanilla flavoring) and placed rolled fondant on the whole thing to make a smooth white surface for the drawing. I then free hand drew the design on the fondant and then painted the design with food coloring and a small tip decorating tool. I didn't want to use a paint brush because the original design isn't clean, straight lines, so I wanted it to look as close as possible.
From start to finish is was approximately an 8 hour job, 6 of which were dedicated to the painting of the design. I had to go really slow because I was so worried that I would smudge a line and not be able to correct it. Which unfortunately I did end up doing right at the end, but found a pleasant surprise with marshmallow fondant, a little water and it comes COMPLETELY off.
Unfortunately for contest purposes, I had to eventually cut into and eat the cake...it was yummy for sure, the whole family enjoyed it. But, with all that work I just wanted to look at it forever!
Thanks for looking at my cake! This is the first time that I've entered anything into a competition so I'm very excited about that. Win or lose, I'm just excited that actual judges are going to be looking at my cake...especially since I'm a HUGE fan of Ace of Cakes (at the risk of sounding like I'm kissing up...they seriously are the inspiration behind me wanting to decorate cakes)!!
This was my first experience with homemade fondant, that was a lot of sticky fun and I'll never use store bought again! I took two sheet cakes, made of spice cake, stacked, butter creamed (extra vanilla flavoring) and placed rolled fondant on the whole thing to make a smooth white surface for the drawing. I then free hand drew the design on the fondant and then painted the design with food coloring and a small tip decorating tool. I didn't want to use a paint brush because the original design isn't clean, straight lines, so I wanted it to look as close as possible.
From start to finish is was approximately an 8 hour job, 6 of which were dedicated to the painting of the design. I had to go really slow because I was so worried that I would smudge a line and not be able to correct it. Which unfortunately I did end up doing right at the end, but found a pleasant surprise with marshmallow fondant, a little water and it comes COMPLETELY off.
Unfortunately for contest purposes, I had to eventually cut into and eat the cake...it was yummy for sure, the whole family enjoyed it. But, with all that work I just wanted to look at it forever!
Thanks for looking at my cake! This is the first time that I've entered anything into a competition so I'm very excited about that. Win or lose, I'm just excited that actual judges are going to be looking at my cake...especially since I'm a HUGE fan of Ace of Cakes (at the risk of sounding like I'm kissing up...they seriously are the inspiration behind me wanting to decorate cakes)!!
