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The Cheshire
by Mel Wahl · submitted Aug 16, 2010 · 2010 contest
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Description
“The Cheshire” by Skylar Hogan is one of those shirts that just makes you smile. I love that the designer thought through the daily life of a shirt and gave it three levels for each situation a shirt might be ogled in (much like the old riddle: What has four legs in the morning, two in the afternoon, and three in the evening? The answer? A human being! We crawl on all four "legs" or "limbs" in the 'morning' of our life as a baby, then learn to walk on two, then use a cane to help us walk in old age.) The life of a shirt however, usually sees the inside of a building (black ink on white background), the outside (colored Cheshire cat UV ink), and the night (glow-in-the-dark ink).
I tried to recreate the trifecta of awesome cake-changingness with these "Cheshire Catcakes" in that the tops are white chocolate and bittersweet chocolate outline over white frosting (with white chocolate mixed with a drop of pink then hand molded into noses) mimicking the white and black of the indoor shirt state, when they are broken into (and the inside is exposed to 'the light of day') you can see the layers of blue and purple cake, and just for that special "OMG" effect, I substituted in part tonic water in the batter and made a gel to add to the face so that it would glow under a black light.
All together, it took a few days to prep the faces (I made a blueprint of faces to be traced with piping chocolate and had two pans of faces in the freezer), but only an hour or so to make the cupcake batter, line the cupcake pan, spoon the alternating layers, and bake. Next time, I'll make the tonic water glow-in-the-dark gel thicker; it didn't seem to adhere as well as I would have liked for that really solid glowing face! Watch the video to see all the stages in action!
I tried to recreate the trifecta of awesome cake-changingness with these "Cheshire Catcakes" in that the tops are white chocolate and bittersweet chocolate outline over white frosting (with white chocolate mixed with a drop of pink then hand molded into noses) mimicking the white and black of the indoor shirt state, when they are broken into (and the inside is exposed to 'the light of day') you can see the layers of blue and purple cake, and just for that special "OMG" effect, I substituted in part tonic water in the batter and made a gel to add to the face so that it would glow under a black light.
All together, it took a few days to prep the faces (I made a blueprint of faces to be traced with piping chocolate and had two pans of faces in the freezer), but only an hour or so to make the cupcake batter, line the cupcake pan, spoon the alternating layers, and bake. Next time, I'll make the tonic water glow-in-the-dark gel thicker; it didn't seem to adhere as well as I would have liked for that really solid glowing face! Watch the video to see all the stages in action!