Yes, its time for another tasty installation of Sean-Cakes; A little smaller this time.
After the problems with the previously noted mushroom cake, we decided the icing we were using may not be the best for what we were trying to do, so we trawled through the internet for different types of icing and their properties and had a go at one. If I remember rightly, the icing recipe we found was american, and because of that everything needed converting, and substituting if some things weren't available in the UK. In the end we had something that resembled icing, but we found when using it that it had some undesirable properties; Like getting hard really quick, gaining a crust and not being quite as tasty as the others, but it was a lot easier to work with with the liquid-like colours that we had so much problems with before. Because of the consistency we decided to do a bit of sculpting. I assume the "Dragon-trainer Lulu" skin from league of legends was recently released, because we decided to have a go at making one of her dragons out of icing, as seen below.
I wasw really pleased with what we had made, it was miles above our mushroom, and yet it only needed toothpicks for the wings to hold them up, which is understandable. we got a pretty good likeness too I think, Possibly the cracking of the icing gave it a more "scaly" look.
Our next cake was made short after... I believe left-over icing and enthusiasm from cake success was probably why; It also ended up being a League of Legends themed cake; In particular, a Shark-themed cake.
One of the differences this time was that Ross had gotten proper Icing colours for his birthday, which meant they were much better suited than previously, making the icing much easier to work with. Of course We'd also learnt a lot of stuff along the way. Though quite fiddly, and hard to get the right shape in general, I'm really pleased with how it went, and it was fun too. Just as a note, the purple colour of the shark was actually supposed to be a black, But I assume we didn't use enough, but it worked out OK anyway!
This cake was just a small side-project for my brothers birthday, it wasn't anything particularly fancy, or complicated, but it was simple, tasty and effective, and pleasing tot he eye; and that's why I liked it.
This cake was actually our families Christmas cake last year which I got my hands on. I teamed up with my mother who has spent much more time in the kitchen than me, and we ended up with this design (it wasn't particularly planned), but we managed to give each of the snowmen a different personality, so that counts for something... right?
The final piece (for now) was baked for Ross' Fathers birthday; We did get the idea from the internet, but made it our own as best as we could; it included marzipan, name badge and chocolate buttons. I think the simplicity of this design added to its effectiveness, and of course, it was very tasty. Trying to get the collar to stay upright and not crack was a problem-solving task in itself though!
And... i think that concludes The cake post, Not forever, but for now.
Hope you enjoyed, sorry for making you hungry!
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