Saturday, March 13, 2010

HAPPY BIRTHDAY OZ

HAPPY 78th BIRTHDAY OZ

Today I made this cake for Branden's Grandpa's 78th Birthday.  This was a replica of his trawl boat, the King Lafitte.  It was a rather large cake, since he had a huge birthday party.  This was also the first cake I've made not using fondant as a cake covering.  The boat itself was modeled out of rice krispie treats covered with fondant.  The rigging and flagpole were the only non-edible pieces, being made from skewers covered in gumpaste.  Gumpaste was used to make the flag, rake, radar, dipnet, winch, cleats, trawl boards, box, picking table, v-test, anchor, seagulls and porpoise.  I piped the nets out of royal icing.
The cake was vanilla with half strawberry and half pineapple fillings.
This is the result of 3 days worth of modeling the accessories and 5 hours building the actual boat.

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