Monday the 22nd - Thursday the 25th

Here it is, Folks!

Our Children's Theme Cakes!

Styrofoam middle (as this project was about modeling), and fifteen plus HOURS over the course of four days to work with modeling chocolate... dark and white, (and if you are anything like me and have a hand temperature of 289 degrees on a normal basis) that melts promptly and sticks to your hands.

We were required to have three figures, many different shades of chocolate (incorporated by hand), a border around the bottom of the cake that relates to your theme, the use of only one color that wasn't made of chocolate and could only be used in a very small quantity, and a pastiage item (another item made of sugar), which had to be painted with cocoa butter... SIGH. This has been, so far, my least favorite thing we have done since we started school in September... Even more so than my terrible Pate a Choux day...

So here is my finished product! I chose Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs, one of my all-time favorite books as a child... (next time, I will choose a theme that does NOT require me to make realistic looking figures... Again, le sigh).



A view from the top (my pastiage item is the umbrella)...




And a view of the bottom... (and no, that is not a frown on his face, is a 'stash!)




A close up of my borders... Sandwiches and... a hot dog,




... Some blurry ice cream cones,

B-A-N-A-N-A-S,

... And a chocolate chip cookie.

Here is Monica's... Wallace & Gromit.

Donna chose a penguin-gone-fishin' theme:

Pharyn, true to form, chose a Disney theme: Cinderella. Notice her adorable and almost impossible to make mice.

This was the cake that Chef made to demo for us... Its a baby theme. She used Luster Dust to make those certain parts shiny and the sides of her cake are decorated with buttons.

Here is JM's who chose Sid the Science Kid, which I have never heard of, but his attention to detail is awesome. The pictures just don't really show how much went into these cakes.

Here is Vicki's - Winnie the Pooh. The best part of her cake is Tigger with his head stuck in the honey jar!

Kimberly's... Frog Family Picnic... yes... it seems all sweet and innocent until....

...You get a close up of Mrs. Frog's knockers!!!

This is Rebecca's. She did a Clown theme. (this one's for you, Lisa!)

This one is Jessi's and a class favorite. She did James and the Giant Peach. Remember that one?!

This is a close up of her eight-a-pied, as she couldn't fit 100 legs on him, laying back, enjoying a cigar.

Here is the spider:

Here is Henry's - He chose Lilo and Stitch at story time.

This one is Erica's. She made the pearls around the bottom look totally real with luster dust.

This one is Nika's a.k.a The Russian Spy. She chose a theme based off a Russian children's book. Her details were totally out of control awesome.

Here is a close up of some of her figures.

The last one is Brigi's:

Here is a close up of her hot air balloon which I thought was so cute.

Tomorrow we have yet another pizza day followed by a three hour demo on sugar flowers (gum paste mixed with fondant) as we start making our wedding cakes next week. While we wont be using real cake, we will still be responsible for covering them with fondant, three theirs worth, and constructing and coloring all the flowers and other decoration we might want to use...