Vanderbilt Football Helmet

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Comment by Sandra Smiley on September 8, 2014 at 8:05am

On top of everything else, Gali, I HATE FOOTBALL!

Comment by art deco cakes by galidink on September 8, 2014 at 8:00am

lol Sandra , it looks like a hard cake to do , I  don't ever want to do 1 , lol so I say to you nice job ! some cakes I don't even want to try ,, this is 1 ,,,

Comment by Sandra Smiley on September 8, 2014 at 7:56am

June, if you set the football helmet cake beside the scarlet macaws cake, you would think the bird cake was the harder....right?  Wrong!  The big cake took a lot longer to make, but, to me, was not nearly as hard and it was fun.  This stupid helmet was just torture and I don't even know why.  Oh, by the way, I was filling in the folds, as you suggested, and got tired of fooling with it and quit - lol.

Comment by June Kowalczyk on September 7, 2014 at 10:22pm

Hey....recipient was happy...it tasted great....that's what counts. I don't think I'd do a skate cake again....it was really, really a lot of work. I see all those sneaker shoe cakes.....not for me....get stressed just thinking about it!!

Comment by Sandra Smiley on September 7, 2014 at 9:46pm

Thanks, Goreri and June.  I would have to love someone a lot to do another one of these!  Not fun at all. Yes, it is covered in modeling chocolate.  It probably would have been much easier to work with if I had mixed it with fondant, but you know how we are.....just wanted to try the chocolate.  It did taste a lot better - the taste was great.  Please observe that, for the first time ever, I was able to paint on gold.  It is not gorgeous, but it worked.

Comment by June Kowalczyk on September 7, 2014 at 7:59pm

This looks pretty good Sandra! I think the cage looks great. Was it modelling chocolate?? Because Gail's covered many a cake in that....she's your girl on that one. I came across something about using a combo of chocolate & fondant mixed together and a touch of tylose added is suppose to work well. Flexibility and strength. A tip...where you have the cracks, you could have melted some white chocolate, and spread on the crack with a silicone brush. Wa la...chocolate dries....and hides the cracks...

Comment by Goreti on September 7, 2014 at 7:54pm

I think you did a nice job too.  It is not easy to cover something like this.  I've never tried one either.

Comment by Sandra Smiley on September 7, 2014 at 5:20pm

"Nice job" is way too kind, Gali.  It didn't come out very well, but Roger loved it.  He has worked for Vanderbilt for 44 years and is a die hard football fan.  This was the hardest cake I have made to date.  The chocolate cake was too soft and moist to sculpt, so the opening for the face is much too small.  I decided to try using chocolate instead of fondant to cover it (because of flavor) and, as you can see, the results was less than perfect.  I thought making the wire face guard was going to be the hardest part, but trying to cover it with fondant that was so freakin' hard!  The best thing I can say about this cake is that is was delicious!

Comment by art deco cakes by galidink on September 7, 2014 at 5:07pm

nice , job , I never tried 1 ! looks like lots of work !

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