santa cake

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Comment by Timothy Jansen on November 30, 2012 at 2:18pm

What a COOL Father Christmas cake...!

Comment by Goreti on December 23, 2011 at 2:47am

Wow! This is unbelievable

Comment by Tammy Walton on December 23, 2011 at 1:56am

Thank You I hope to be this good soon. Lots of practice I know. If you don't mind I would to have you as a mentor type person as I continue to grow. I know I could learn great things from you,

Comment by Jay Murphy on December 22, 2011 at 12:04am

i realize that is a butterfly not a bird...the bird is on the back.  this was for the az dept of admin, so it had 6 az items, state bird, state flower, state butterfly, state gem, mineral and flag also a saguaro cactus 

Comment by Jay Murphy on December 21, 2011 at 11:59pm

the base is 1/4" wood with a 1" dowel (18" tall) screwed into the base. cakes are stacked like normal (each torted with 3 filling and 4 cake layers) on cardboard,center of the cardboard base of each cake is cut, and the cake is lifted up, pushing the dowel thru. i plan the cross section of the santa every 4" and cut the cardboard in approximate shape (example if you cut thru santa at his knees what what the shape be.) i guess.

also i put normal supports to keep it from crushing the cake below.  so it is a standard structure tier cake, that is carved but with a large dowel up the center that is attached to the base.  serving is fun.  but usually they figure it out.

cut, serve then remove the card board and cut the next cake.  

after this was baked, i stacked it, carved it and fondant in about 3 hours, i added the details, bird, toys etc the following day they had been made and dried.

for the head i wrapped in fondant first as a general "head oval" on the cake then added the features and placed a thin "skin" layer of fondant over.  detailing with tool.

Comment by Tammy Walton on December 20, 2011 at 1:45pm

This is amazing. How did you stack the cakes and support them so they didn't collapse under all of the weight? How long did it take to complete?

Comment by Queens of Sweet on December 18, 2011 at 9:17am

now THIS is AWESOME!!!!