A few of my most recent cakes
*dusts off this community* Anyone still out there?
It has been a long time since I've posted here. Mostly because I've been working so much. But here are some of my most recent cakes. Two of them I did for work and the last one I did on my own for my father's wedding.
( click here to see them )
It has been a long time since I've posted here. Mostly because I've been working so much. But here are some of my most recent cakes. Two of them I did for work and the last one I did on my own for my father's wedding.
( click here to see them )
Doing a 3D one takes TIME!! First you start with a blob of rice treats mashed into a ruff shape and let them set up hard. Then you cover it with a layer of white fondant and TRY to get it as square as possible and let that Dry. Then you go back over it with a layer of the blue fondant on two sides and let them dry. Cover the other two sides and let them dry. You can't do the entire thing all at once, or you risk squishing the work you just finished. Then you go back and add all the details on the doors. That is not easy. Trying to keep the sizes of the panels all the same size, and straight before the fondant dries out while you work with it is tuff. Then you go back and add the corners and the base and let them dry. Then add the top and the light. Let that dry and then go back and paint in the words. It takes a couple of weeks to do this as each layer needs a day or two or more to dry before you can handle it safely. Try working with it too soon and the heat of your hands will start to mash in the fondant that is still soft on the inside.
A flat one would be MUCH easier. You wouldn't be handling it so much and could do most of it in one shot. Then let it dry for a few days and you are good to go. If it is nice and dry you could even make it stand up if you added skewers to the back to stick into the cake to hold it in place.
For the cake I did, the bride wanted the Tardis to be crashing into the cake. It had to be 3D.
For a birthday cake, especially if it is a sheet cake, you could do a flat one. Even if it is a layer cake it would be fine. You could even do a flat one and put it on the Side of a layer cake rather then the top. Square cakes are nice for this because you can make the pieces ahead of time and stick them on the flat sides of the cake. That's how I did the Washington Landmark cake. I made all of the buildings first and they were dry. When the cake was smoothed and stacked I put them onto the cake with some Royal Icing.
Round cakes would need to have the piece made right on the frosted and smoothed cake or it would either crack or stick out around the curve.
Just think about how you want the cake to look, and what it will take to make it that way and how much time it will take to make things. You have to figure out how you will do things, and in what order, when you are designing the cake. If you have 4 or 5 days worth of work to do on the cake, you want to be able to do that before you bake the cake. You don't want to bake the cake and frost it a week before you deliver it.
3D is nice for this since you can just plunk it on top of the finished cake. But it will take a lot of TIME beforehand.
I hope this answers you question, without overwhelming you.
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