Here it is...

[vettecat]

Finally got around to installing the software for our new camera (yay!), so now I can show y'all the cake I made for Arisia!

As I've mentioned, this was the 20th Arisia, so the chair asked me to make a cake for the staff party. She said I could do whatever I wanted. Hee hee.

I was thinking of doing a topsy-turvy cake (a.k.a. a "mad hatter" cake), but realized when I started shaping it that the layers needed to be taller and narrower. Oh well. Hopefully it still looks cool.

Used 5 lb flour, 5 lb sugar, 1/2 lb cocoa, 6 lb confectioner's sugar... took me 2 nights (3 if you count baking). It was gobbled up in 1/2 hour. Fortunately that's a good thing for a cake.

Pardon the background clutter, I was going to snip these down but don't want to spend any more time on it right now.

For those of you who want to see all the steps,



























And for those of you who just want to see the final product,


As you may be able to infer, my "vision" for the cake was "rocket to the moon." (Could also be called "Excelsior.") What do you think? Did it work? :-)

Comments

[dancingdeer.livejournal.com]

That is awesome. I'm sorry I missed it.

[vettecat.livejournal.com]

Thanks very much, glad you like it! I'm sorry you missed it too... though honestly I think only the first few people in line really got a good look at it. It vanished quickly. :-)

[dancingdeer.livejournal.com]

Well, I wasn't staff this year, and didn't actually know about the cake and corresponding party until sometime later.
Definitely glad you took pictures.

[vettecat.livejournal.com]

How'd you manage that? :-) But yeah, I'm definitely glad the pictures came out OK... it's nice to have a record after spending that much time on a project.