3D
Geology
by Melissa Kelly-Hill · submitted Aug 16, 2010 · 2010 contest
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Description
I have spent the last few weeks looking at all the entries and all the possible shirt designs, agonizing over which one(s) to pick. Finally I decided to go with this design, because, well... it's cake! I love that the shirt design was already cake, and it was perfect for my favorite medium... CHOCOLATE!!! Also, it reminded me of a giant Geologic cake of Mississippi that I created a few months ago.
STATS:
FLAVOR- choc cake (made from the cocoa box recipe + I subbed some stuff)
ICING- peanut butter-butter cream
MEDIUM- piped melted chocolate (white, dark and butterscotch chips-woohoo!)
TIME- only about 12 hours (after a day's work at a mundane job)
TASTE- excellent! (way too rich to finish an entire slice! really.)
oh!- and one non-edible support- a small dowel down the center of the cake to keep all the eight (I think) layers from toppling over, (they were gradually falling forward as I was taking pics)
Honestly, I thought this cake would be way easier than it was! Though I procrastinate much of my life, I'm a pretty good planner when it comes to caking around and creating chocolate designs. I screwed up the design on this one though. The shirt design is PERFECT for transferring to chocolate, except for one minor thing... the sides of the tshirt cake are ANGLED!! aaaaaannd when you copy an angled side and then try to add it to a straight side on a REAL piece of cake, it does NOT fit!! stupid.stupid.stupid.
*sigh*
Oh, well. This cake is not exactly what I envisioned, but no worries... If I caught the design flaw, perhaps all the lines would have been clean and matched perfectly, but no matter. It it done. Another lesson learned. I still like it. And because the lines aren't all straight and stuff it makes the cake look kinda crazy, instead of an exact replica.
yep... geology... and stuff...
STATS:
FLAVOR- choc cake (made from the cocoa box recipe + I subbed some stuff)
ICING- peanut butter-butter cream
MEDIUM- piped melted chocolate (white, dark and butterscotch chips-woohoo!)
TIME- only about 12 hours (after a day's work at a mundane job)
TASTE- excellent! (way too rich to finish an entire slice! really.)
oh!- and one non-edible support- a small dowel down the center of the cake to keep all the eight (I think) layers from toppling over, (they were gradually falling forward as I was taking pics)
Honestly, I thought this cake would be way easier than it was! Though I procrastinate much of my life, I'm a pretty good planner when it comes to caking around and creating chocolate designs. I screwed up the design on this one though. The shirt design is PERFECT for transferring to chocolate, except for one minor thing... the sides of the tshirt cake are ANGLED!! aaaaaannd when you copy an angled side and then try to add it to a straight side on a REAL piece of cake, it does NOT fit!! stupid.stupid.stupid.
*sigh*
Oh, well. This cake is not exactly what I envisioned, but no worries... If I caught the design flaw, perhaps all the lines would have been clean and matched perfectly, but no matter. It it done. Another lesson learned. I still like it. And because the lines aren't all straight and stuff it makes the cake look kinda crazy, instead of an exact replica.
yep... geology... and stuff...
