Cakes in Shapes
For
a while during year 13 I got momentarily obsessed with a show called Cake Boss.
It is set in a New Jersey Bakery, a reality show around Buddy Valstro, an
Italian American and his family. The main reason this particular show caught my
eye was how they created cakes that were works of art; cakes that had firework
displays, cake’s that moved, giant life size people. I wasn’t quite at that
stage yet but I gradually began to have a go at making themed cakes. It started
when a friend gave me a giant cupcake mould for my birthday, it came out well
and I caught the bug. The next cake I made was a bra for a friend who always
joked about her boobs. Another idea for a cake was a simple round cake,
smothered in icing as a thank you to a show crew, all the cast signed it in
edible pen and it ended up looking quite cool.
My sister’s 21st
was a simple 2 and a 1 with black notes, shopping bags and books all over. That
September I got another two opportunities to experiment. Firstly I made a
goodbye cake for a friend of ours who was going to the Caribbean. I made a
tropical version of a carrot cake with pineapple and mango. Then I swirled blue
food dye into buttercream icing to create a sea, then I used crushed digestives
for sand, made a chocolate palm tree and decorated the beach with chocolate
seashells. The other cake was for a joint 90th birthday for two of
my grandparents. We were all going on a riverboats so the cake had to be
transportable and themed yet not melt. I decided to make a buttercream and
fondant covered vanilla sponge. I finished this with smaller cakes in the shape
of an aeroplane and scrabble pieces. This is in homage to my grandpa who worked
as an aeroplane engineer for years (he helped design the engine for concord)
and my grandma who is a scrabble fiend at her nursing home.
The only person
I haven’t got round to making a cake for is myself, but with my 21st
birthday coming up I’ll have to bite the bullet and do it.
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