Fall Harvest
The basket was done in royal icing as this is a dummy cake. Grapes, plums, cherry tomatoes, garlic, cucumber, tablecloth and peppers are all made from fondant. The apple, peach, potatoes, corn, and carrots are formed rice krispy treats and then covered with fondant. Basket handle is made from gum paste. The filler 'straw' packing material is made from fondant that I forced through an extruder. It looked like whole wheat spaghetti until it dried and I broke it up into smaller pieces. I also used some of the faux straw for the end of the garlic. The wood for the table top was 5 different colors of fondant (white, tan, yellow, pumpkin orange and black) that I rolled into long ropes and then rolled it out and stained it with Ever-clear and chocolate brown petal dust. Everything was shaded with petal dust.
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Comment by Linda Wolff on September 8, 2012 at 9:59am
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Gosh, Terry, it's been a while back, so I can't remember exactly how long it took, but since it was a dummy cake, the nice thing about them, is you can work on them at your leisure for days or weeks on end. Yep, I still have it. I just put it into a full sheet cake box with the lid taped up and plastic wrap all around it. No, I did not put any spray or anything on it to preserve it. Thank you for your kind words!
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Comment by Terry Bingham on September 8, 2012 at 9:10am
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Amamng, everything looks so real I want to grab that corn on the cob an start comping. This is an amazing about of work, if you don't mind me asking how long did this take you? Also, you said the basket was a cake dummy, I haven't used then yet, how long will this last? I've heard some people spra display cakes with something to preserve them, do you do this?
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Thank you Tiffany...it is too bad that I did not iron my tablecloth!! lol It would have made a nicer picture, that's for sure.
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Comment by Tiffany Whitson York on February 7, 2012 at 3:51pm
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very well done! on all aspects of this.the corn and the grapes are my fav bc they are so realistic!
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Comment by art deco cakes by galidink on January 8, 2012 at 8:51pm
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oh no sorry about that , ; (
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It did hurt. I guess that's why I have carpal tunnel so bad.
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that must have hurt piping that basket, such a beautiful job , amazing ,
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Awww, Gail you are too sweet. I beat the tar out of the royal icing until it was stiff as a board, then placed it in a piping bag and used a large round tip to do the basket weave. By the time I got to the back side of it, it was starting to get a little weepy and not hold it's shape so well. Points were taken off because of it, but thankfully, I still got a blue ribbon. The handle was made from gum paste. Didn't want to chance breaking it with the royal icing. What makes the fruits look real, are the petal dusts. I have at least 50 or 60 different colors in my little jars. Each fruit has at least 4 or 5 different colors on it to make it look real as possible.
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OMG . AWESOME AWESOME AWESOME ,HOW did you get the basket done in royle ? wow , and all the veggies look so real , it is a work of art for sure , amazing
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Thank you Caran
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