Living Doll

I’m up late on Tuesday night, and I think – so what’s going on with the Threadcakes contest? I look it up and realize that the deadline is in less than a week! Yes, I still have a chance to enter!

I figure if I bake on Friday night and decorate on Saturday/Sunday I will be good to go!!!!

I love the hand/grabbing illusion of the shirt and thought it might workout somehow. Some feverish sketches later and I have a design... Instead of a hand grabbing a shirt, it’s grabbing a cake! I thought it would be neat touch to add some stitching accents to make the cake look like it is sewn, the same way a shirt might be sewn. That would make a Threaded Cake – pun intended. ;)

Finally got going around 11:00 on Saturday. The goal is to bake and have everything crumb coated by today! Baking went amazingly smooth. I chose a buttermilk cake. The cake gods were kind to me today! I was particularly enchanted by the designs created by the mixture of eggs, buttermilk and vanilla.

The cake is filled with real raspberry butter cream and a layer of raspberry puree(no seeds). So far so good.

Carving resulted in a cake much taller than I had expected. I am now wondering how large this hand is going to have to be to look proportionate? It’s around 5:00 pm and I decide the finish the rest tomorrow. Fingers crossed!!!

It’s Sunday and the goal today is to get the cake done! Fondant-ing was not too bad. The first try with the blue fondant was a little awkward, but the second one was much better.

And now it’s time for the tricky part – the hand. I was humming and haaa-ing over whether or not I should go with one hand or two because of the circumference of the cake. I finally settled on one hand and with by using flesh colored modeling chocolate (which is made out of chocolate and corn syrup). I forgot how hard hands are to sculpt. It took quite a few tries. In the end, it’s not quite what I was expecting! Why they are E.T. hands!

In the end, was very happy to cut into it and have a slice. Delicious.