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Here it is...
Jan. 25th, 2009 09:58 pmFinally 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, ( Read more... )
And for those of you who just want to see the final product, ( Read more... )
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? :-)
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, ( Read more... )
And for those of you who just want to see the final product, ( Read more... )
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? :-)
Sugar saga
Nov. 16th, 2007 01:21 amAs I recently mentioned, I've been working on the cake for a friend's daughter's Bat Mitzvah party, which is this coming Sunday. The young lady loves to read and likes the color blue. This is what I came up with. (You really don't want to know how long this took... and for scale, the board it's on [borrowed from another congregant] is 18" square.) ( Read more... )
The link I put up the other day was taken down, but now someone's put it up elsewhere so I can share it with y'all... really, worth watching!
Sugar & stucco
Jan. 21st, 2007 01:25 amSomeone reminded me that I hadn't posted a photo of the Arisia GOHs with the GOH cake... ( Read more... )
And, while I had the CD in the other night, I meant to post a followup to my previous post about the wall damage. ( Read more... )
And, while I had the CD in the other night, I meant to post a followup to my previous post about the wall damage. ( Read more... )
Too funny not to share
Jan. 20th, 2007 10:34 pmSomeone posted about a cake order in which the bakery staff wasn't paying close enough attention... ( Read more... )
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debgeisler for the tip... also posted to ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
cake_decorating and bakebakebake)
(Thanks to
debgeisler for the tip... also posted to cake_decorating and bakebakebake)This is a first for me but...
Jan. 16th, 2007 01:57 amWith all the prep for Arisia I've fallen about a week behind on posts, which are at skip = 500+. There's no way I'm going to catch up. If I missed something you think I should see, or would find of interest, please let me know. Thanks!
As a partial apology, though, I'll share one of the things that was taking up my time. ( Read more... )
Must go to bed... have a goodMonday Tuesday, everyone!
As a partial apology, though, I'll share one of the things that was taking up my time. ( Read more... )
Must go to bed... have a good
Whoof again
Jan. 6th, 2006 03:00 amThe cake is done. Bears only a slight resemblance to the idea I based it on, but I think it looks pretty good. Cleared sugar off all the kitchen surfaces, etc. ... no energy to answer e-mail, will have to catch up in the morning. G'night, all...
I have, over the course of the last few nights, made 96 tulips (each consisting of 6 petals, hand-cut and assembled) - divided amongst four colors - and 79 leaves out of sugarpaste, to use on the centerpiece cake for my mom's party. Tomorrow night I plan to frost and assemble it. (The cake layers are waiting patiently in their pans.) I really hope this looks good when it's all put together...
(And now I get to go answer Arisia mail - whee!)
(And now I get to go answer Arisia mail - whee!)
Bake bake bake
Dec. 18th, 2005 03:47 amMade so far (and put in mom's friend's freezer) for Mom's surprise party:
Brown sugar bars
Apricot squares
Lemon squares
Nurnberger cookies (honey spice, very pretty, topped with a flower made out of blanched almonds and a glazed cherry - can't find a picture online)
Raspberry white cake (like this, except instead of just berries around the bottom, I did puffs of green frosting with berries interspersed)
Tulip rainbow cake (like this, except I trimmed the bottom with red and green cherries [left over from the nurnberger], and the inside is rainbow-swirled)
Just three kinds of squares, five kinds of cookies, and one more cake to go... :-) I'm hoping to get as many of the squares and cookies done this week as I can, so the last week I'll just have the main cake left; it might be kind of labor-intensive.
Brown sugar bars
Apricot squares
Lemon squares
Nurnberger cookies (honey spice, very pretty, topped with a flower made out of blanched almonds and a glazed cherry - can't find a picture online)
Raspberry white cake (like this, except instead of just berries around the bottom, I did puffs of green frosting with berries interspersed)
Tulip rainbow cake (like this, except I trimmed the bottom with red and green cherries [left over from the nurnberger], and the inside is rainbow-swirled)
Just three kinds of squares, five kinds of cookies, and one more cake to go... :-) I'm hoping to get as many of the squares and cookies done this week as I can, so the last week I'll just have the main cake left; it might be kind of labor-intensive.
An autumn wedding
Oct. 18th, 2004 12:55 amThis afternoon sdavido and I had the pleasure of watching ladysprite and umbran get married. ( Read more... )
sdavido and I had the pleasure of watching ladysprite and umbran get married. ( Read more... )
