Wednesday, September 23, 2009

Part One: Cake Design

Sorry for the delay in in posts and the somewhat secrecy (I couldn't have my surprise cake design ruined). Without further ado, I present you a multipart posting spectacular-- featuring drama, intrigue, and frosting.  

This past weekend a good friend of mine, David, celebrated his 20th birthday. And for some reason I decided to bake a cake him (it might have so something to do with my fondness for decorating cupcakes).


Thus began my dissent into frosting.


To start I decided to stack two round 8 inch cakes to create the shape of the cake. This gave me a canvas but I still had to come up with a design. And, of course, when I offered to decorate a cake I had no idea what I wanted it to look like. Eventually I decided to feature and image of David's character from WoW, Maynar, and my character's pet cat, Cindy. Here are some of the sketches I came up with.





At first I wanted to use this cake as an experiment with fondant,  but I just didn't have time to learn a new medium. So I instead decided to make the figures on paper and attach them to the cake.


I also planned to pipe a simple message that read something to the effect of "Happy Birthday, David!" However, all this was subject to change...

Check back tomorrow for Part Two.

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