Awesome!
Just got back from the National Portrait Gallery, where Zilly Rosen (the woman who made the cupcake mosaic of Obama) made a mosaic of Obama and Lincoln from 5,600 cupcakes! It her crew of about 7 right around 4 hours to assemble.
According to the pamphlet she was handing out about the installation, she wanted to make the Obama cupcakes out of chocolate but couldn't because they bake to a different size than the yellowcake she usually uses, so instead she iced Lincoln in vanilla and Obama in chocolate "as a tribute to their heritage," but the fondant used to depict their faces are the same four or five pigments, just in different ratios.
How cool!
According to the pamphlet she was handing out about the installation, she wanted to make the Obama cupcakes out of chocolate but couldn't because they bake to a different size than the yellowcake she usually uses, so instead she iced Lincoln in vanilla and Obama in chocolate "as a tribute to their heritage," but the fondant used to depict their faces are the same four or five pigments, just in different ratios.
How cool!