ANDERSON SHELTER!
Ok, so my granddaughter thinks I can do anything.... She has to do a project for school on children in WW2 and part of it is to make an Anderson Shelter. All the other kids are going to do papier mache, playdough etc., but Daisy thought it would be a great idea to make one out of a cake (probably 'cos it means Nan will do most of the work lol!). I have some ideas on shape, decoration etc., but want to make it looking like corrugated iron, with rust in places. Ideas ladies? Shall I get some sugar paste and try to 'crinkle' it? Or would it be better to put it over the cake and then make depressions in it then? Any ideas, suggestions on any part of the cake are appreciated!
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Permalink Reply by Linda Wolff on
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Katy, I know what you could do for the corrugated part!! I have not made it yet, but I have all of my molds ready, and I am sure that it will work. Cut dowels (whatever thickness you want and length you want) all the same size and then also cut a piece of cake board with the grease proof coating on it to whatever size you want. Then line up all of your dowels side by side across the cake board. Pick up every other one, one at a time, and glue the remaining one onto the cake board. Tacky glue works. Let this dry completely. You now have your mold for the corrugation. You can then roll out your gum paste or fondant and lay it across your corrugated mold, and use one of the remaining dowels to tap your gum paste/fondant down into the hollow part of your mold. Let it completely dry before lifting it out. You can make as many dowel molds as you want so that they are all dry when you want to work with it. Hope this helps! For the rust, you might use some copper colored and other colored petal dusts kind of smudged into each other to give that worn, rusty look.
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Permalink Reply by Katy Nott on
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Clever girl Linda! I have exactly the right thickness dowels already (bought some that were too thin for a layer cake!). Just one thought though - this will give me flat sheets won't it? Perhaps I could try the same process but over a U-shaped something - piece of cardboard perhaps. The dowels are a great idea though - thanks!
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Yes, this would give a flat sheet. What I want to do with this technique, is cover a round cake with this look, so I am thinking I will have to remake my own molds and use a cake dummy as my mold. That way, I'll be sure and have the height right for my cake as well as the right shape. Maybe you could carve a square dummy cake into the shape you are desiring and then go that route. I am not sure what the building is that you are attempting (American and you are British, so I am unclear what this is) so I don't know if you need the corrugation vertical or horizontal. If you need it horizontal, maybe you can find some kind of a nylon rope that would work around the curves? You could also just use a corrugated pice of cardboard box and form it around the carved cake dummy. Would that work? I would think it would be more flexible to work with.
KATY NOTT said:Clever girl Linda! I have exactly the right thickness dowels already (bought some that were too thin for a layer cake!). Just one thought though - this will give me flat sheets won't it? Perhaps I could try the same process but over a U-shaped something - piece of cardboard perhaps. The dowels are a great idea though - thanks!
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Yes of course - you guys wouldn't have had Anderson's. They were U shaped bomb shelters that people built in their gardens against German bombing raids. They usually 'disguised' them by growing plants over the top and planting a vegetable garden around them. I'm going to put some ivy across the top of ours, but still want part of the corrugated iron to show, so that it's obvious what it is. We'll then make some sugar paste cabbages to plant around it. I've added a couple
of pics so you see what I mean - one before and one after.
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So it does have a curvature on the roof. hmmmm that changes the whole flavor of things doesn't it? Do you have red or black licorice laces over in the UK? They are about the thickness of shoe strings and are semi hard, but flexible enough to manipulate. I wonder if you could use something like that? It would be edible too, so you wouldn't have to dry your fondant-jut place them where you want them, then form the fondant over the top of it. Just a thought. Two heads are better than one sometimes.
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Permalink Reply by June Kowalczyk on
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I made a "dummy" cake Katy that I took a large dowel and pushed it into the cake about every 1/4 " all around the cake on the fondant. Not sure If i still have a pic. But it would achieve the look you want. You would have to get a piece of flexible cardboard or such, attach fondant to it, and do the same technique. Imbed it into the cake to form the curved building shape. You could make light grey fondant ( sugar paste ), and "paint" on some red/brown colour to look like rust. Cut a piece of black fondant to represent the "door", and glue on the front of cake/structure. With the edition of your ivy, that will hide a multitude of any errors.
Hope this helps.
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Another good idea Linda - yes we do have licorice strings over here. I think they can also be got in fruit flavour (strawberry I vaguely remember seeing somewhere. . Also see where you're coming from June, thanks. I think I might get a bit of spare fondant from my supplies and do some experimenting with both methods! Cake isn't needed until the end of March, so I have a while yet. Then, of course, there's the guitar cake, Easter cake and motorbike cake all needed for the following Easter weekend! No pressure.....................
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Gee your'e not busy at all are you Katy!!!!
Let us know how the practice run goes.
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