Vanderbilt Football Helmet

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Comment by art deco cakes by galidink on September 9, 2014 at 9:51am

if your needing to cover with chocolate ! you can pc it like sheets of it ! , and keep rubbing with your warm fingers , as you  build a smooth surface , or add melted chocolate let it cool than rub , that's how it did my chocolate heads , also , the bottom part should be RCT'S ! CAKE ON THE TOP LAYER. It's much easier to cut the shape on the bottom out of RCT. well any way if I had to do 1 that's how I would. as for black I would have to say gumpaste ,

 

Comment by Sandra Smiley on September 9, 2014 at 7:28am

True.....:o(

Comment by June Kowalczyk on September 8, 2014 at 11:20pm

Never say Never!!!

Comment by Sandra Smiley on September 8, 2014 at 8:49pm

That is something I do not have to worry about, June, because I will not be using modeling chocolate again in place of fondant....not in the foreseeable future, anyway.

Comment by art deco cakes by galidink on September 8, 2014 at 12:57pm

; )

Comment by June Kowalczyk on September 8, 2014 at 12:25pm

ha ha...I thought they were screws too! Good modelling chocolate isn't hard...it's soft and pliable. So, yes, probably more corn syrup.

Comment by Sandra Smiley on September 8, 2014 at 11:31am

Exactly, June!  This cake would have probably been a lot easier if I had used a firm pound cake instead of the soft, moist chocolate cake.  I was afraid to make the opening in the front large enough because I was afraid it would collapse.  And, the modeling chocolate was so heavy, it pushed the cake down until the dowels stuck up through the top (as you can clearly see).  Mike said they looked like screws in the top of the cake.  The modeling chocolate got stiff too fast, too.  Probably should have used more corn syrup.  I sort of love working with RCT's :o)

Comment by June Kowalczyk on September 8, 2014 at 8:54am

I think any sculpted cake is hard Sandra. Carving it just so...covering without lumps or bumps....adding all the details...yikes. My skate was RCT, and that was difficult enough..but had it been cake...no way. I do believe your macaw cake was easier.... as you said, just time consuming from all he elements....

Comment by Sandra Smiley on September 8, 2014 at 8:34am

Yeah, it is a miracle any of us made it to adulthood, isn't it, Gali!

Comment by art deco cakes by galidink on September 8, 2014 at 8:14am

lol , Sandra , I don't hate it , but I am not a fan of it ,,, I played football with my brothers and cousin s when I was 12 -13 ,  but helmets we did not have , lol 

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