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B-day cake for a lab-mate, commissioned by her boyfriend. He wanted a cake that looked like a hat box with a smaller box on top (in which he could place her gift: a hand-made ring by him)
So here's what I made:
Cake is old fashioned chocolate cake (Cooks Illustrated) with kahlua/chocolate buttercream.
So here's the inspiration drawing- the sketch he made for me. Kinda hard to see but gives you the general idea:
I think I did a pretty good job!! It was my BEST fondant covering ever (super smooth)- for once I was sad I'd have to cover it up :) But I have to admit, after I was done with the cake, I was VERY disappointed b/c it looked kinda ridiculous with all the stripes!! I went a little stripe crazy. It would have been better had I glanced at his drawing before putting on the blue strips and made them less sparse. BUT after the bow and box were placed on the cake it looked much better.
Larger version of cake pic:
Top view:
Closeup of gumpaste/fondant bow with pink luster dust:
Closeup of gumpaste/fondant box with completely functional lid and bow:
View inside the box. This isn't the ACTUAL gift- just a necklace I had. Box was square 3" and 2" high:
So here's what I made:
Cake is old fashioned chocolate cake (Cooks Illustrated) with kahlua/chocolate buttercream.
So here's the inspiration drawing- the sketch he made for me. Kinda hard to see but gives you the general idea:
I think I did a pretty good job!! It was my BEST fondant covering ever (super smooth)- for once I was sad I'd have to cover it up :) But I have to admit, after I was done with the cake, I was VERY disappointed b/c it looked kinda ridiculous with all the stripes!! I went a little stripe crazy. It would have been better had I glanced at his drawing before putting on the blue strips and made them less sparse. BUT after the bow and box were placed on the cake it looked much better.
Larger version of cake pic:
Top view:
Closeup of gumpaste/fondant bow with pink luster dust:
Closeup of gumpaste/fondant box with completely functional lid and bow:
View inside the box. This isn't the ACTUAL gift- just a necklace I had. Box was square 3" and 2" high: