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July 07 - Sept 07
Catering: Decorated Cake
"First-Ever Cake Decoration..."

One double lesson per week, plus a few extra lunchtimes, so maybe about 20-24 hours, not including drying time in between classes.

This photo is taken looking into the display cabinet the cake is in, so let's ignore the white line down the middle for now (that's the reflection of the sun.)

20cm square fruitcake, cut up into a few blocks, then re-arranged. Can't remember what was in the fruitcake, not that that really matters. It's covered in marzipan and then a layer of coloured fondant icing (I used several packets).

I wanted the icing to be black, however I settled for grey - the black colouring got so messy (as I watched somebody else get black staining on their hands...that wouldn't wash off for two days...)

It still took me three weeks just to get it to the right grey colour.

Before you DDR freaks criticize that the speakers are not meant to be that way, I was trying to stay true to the machine, but icing bags are awfully hard to control when you are learning to decorate a cake for the first time. The arrows on the screen were all piped on when the cake was standing up - ie. it was vertical. I also realise that the red "bars" (those 3D curvy bits at the front) should have a black bit on them, but I've left that off as it was too complicated to stick on (the black icing didn't want to stick to anything.)

I hate the piping around the screen. Wish I hadn't done that. I should have used a smaller star nozzle, but I couldn't be bothered washing out yet another icing bag.

The part I'm most happy about is the dance pad bit. If you look really closely (I don't know if you can see it in this photo), there is silver shimmer powder to make the whole thing look "metallic". I must have piped the arrows several times to make sure they were right.

I might decorate another cake for Christmas...
My brother wants an Nintendo DS cake for his next birthday...

Description
See here for a better photo: [link]

*************
July 07 - Sept 07
Catering: Decorated Cake
"First-Ever Cake Decoration..."

One double lesson per week, plus a few extra lunchtimes, so maybe about 20-24 hours, not including drying time in between classes.

This photo is taken looking into the display cabinet the cake is in, so let's ignore the white line down the middle for now (that's the reflection of the sun.)

20cm square fruitcake, cut up into a few blocks, then re-arranged. Can't remember what was in the fruitcake, not that that really matters. It's covered in marzipan and then a layer of coloured fondant icing (I used several packets).

I wanted the icing to be black, however I settled for grey - the black colouring got so messy (as I watched somebody else get black staining on their hands...that wouldn't wash off for two days...)

It still took me three weeks just to get it to the right grey colour.

Before you DDR freaks criticize that the speakers are not meant to be that way, I was trying to stay true to the machine, but icing bags are awfully hard to control when you are learning to decorate a cake for the first time. The arrows on the screen were all piped on when the cake was standing up - ie. it was vertical. I also realise that the red "bars" (those 3D curvy bits at the front) should have a black bit on them, but I've left that off as it was too complicated to stick on (the black icing didn't want to stick to anything.)

I hate the piping around the screen. Wish I hadn't done that. I should have used a smaller star nozzle, but I couldn't be bothered washing out yet another icing bag.

The part I'm most happy about is the dance pad bit. If you look really closely (I don't know if you can see it in this photo), there is silver shimmer powder to make the whole thing look "metallic". I must have piped the arrows several times to make sure they were right.

I might decorate another cake for Christmas...
My brother wants an Nintendo DS cake for his next birthday...