the long awaited,
much anticipated,
swoon worthy
(ok... it's just cake people... )
Mizzou Cake Challenge Cake!!! By Me!!! Your favorite procrastinating blogger!!
~cue cheering crowd~
(apologies now for blowing up your computer with pics.... I hope all of this loads for you! lol)
Don't miss Beetle Bailey behind the rose bush!!
And to answer your questions:
1. No, I didn't win... I didn't even place in my division.
2. I can only assume the judges were NOT blind, but I have a call into Duff's opthamologist, just to make sure! lol
3. 55 cakes, 15 professional and 40 amateur.... guess which section *I* competed in! lol.... if you want to see the winning cakes you can go HERE and if you want to see ALL of the cakes you can watch THIS VIDEO My set up time was 8:40 am. The judging was from 10:30 to 11:30? approx and the cakes were on display to the public from 12pm to 5 pm. We picked it up at 10pm.
3a. in the trunk of the car unassembled
4. Duff's really funny, but no we didn't get to hang out. I just got to meet him for less than a minute. I managed to get an autograph, a picture and my fragile cake ego crushed when he didn't remember my cake at all *sigh*
5. James was really good... even when he had to sit through the almost 2 hour talk that Duff gave and then waited for almost 45 mins after so Mommy could get her autograph and ego bruising! lol
6. We ate a few bites of it... but after it had been in the trunk of the rental from here to the hotel 3 hours away on tuesday, and on display all day wednesday, and back in the trunk of the rental on thursday and driven all the way to Kentucky, it just needed to be tossed. We didn't even cut into it until friday night and i had covered it with fondant on the previous Saturday or sunday? Those 3 weeks are all kind of a blur....
7. He says never again.... I say maybe. The boys were getting tired of eating sandwiches in the living room! lol Hubby also quipped one day that it's a good thing you can't get "Contact Diabetes" lol, because of all the sugar that was in the air and all over the kitchen. He also said that one of the pluses was "sugar coated Sharon kisses".... I didn't have the heart to tell him that by that time, I had QUIT even tasting anything and was just oozing the sugar out of my very pores.
8. Yes, I was very very tired of cake! lol After Hubby and I went and set up the cake, we had a snack at the hotel. James gave me a his donut. I took one bite, made a face and said "Blech... I can't eat this... it tastes like CAKE!" lol. I was CRAVING protein... You know it's bad when all you want to eat is a hard boiled egg!
9. Yes, I have made cakes since!! lol... I was in the middle of a cake class and couldn't avoid making frosting and cake! I just finished that class yesterday and will blog about it soon.
Ok... back to the cake.
Everything is hand made and edible!
I started with white fondant. I hand tinted or hand painted all the color you shttp://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gifee on the cake. All the flowers and leaves are made with a gumpaste/fondant mix, all hand cut, formed, painted, steamed and dried. I believe the cake ended up being around 23-25 inches when it was stacked... but I didn't measure it all together. This was the first time I had EVER stacked a cake.... or worked with modeling chocolate.... or made leaves and flowers..... or worked with royal icing.... or made "water"...... and so many other things, I can't hardly count! lol
Ok... working from the top down, Close up detail work (you can click the links for bigger pics, if you want... or if you don't want to sort through all the pics, you can WATCH THIS VIDEO It gives you a great idea of the scale of everything and you get some nice close ups)
Spire: 2 in approx, fondant gumpaste mix
Jesse Hall Dome: From bottom to the tip of the spire almost 10? inches tall, Rice Krispie treats (I tried to make it out of cake... I really did! But after the 3rd time it fell over, I gave up!) covered in fondant, hand painted and piped with royal icing. Columns/MU bushes/ Gates: hand formed, sculpted and painted, gumpaste/fondant mix.
The Buildings on the sides: Both are hand painted (no edible images on THIS cake!! That's cheating!!) with a mix of icing colors and vodka and applied with a paint brush.
School crest (3 in round) is layered gumpaste/fondant mix and piped with royal icing.
Tiger tracks!!
Marble colums (5 in tall) are gumpaste/fondant mix and the signs are modeling chololate with gold glaze writing that was done with a paint brush.
The cascading "water" in the fountain is brushed gelatin (NOT plastic, like you were thinking!! That's cheating!! lol) and the water in the basin is tinted piping gel. The plaque behind the water is 1 x 3.5 and the inscription is hand written (edible images?? We don't need no stinkin edible images!!)
Tiger and brown column are made/carved out of home made modeling chocolate and the Tiger Plaza column is the gumpaste/fondant mix with modeling chololate with gold glaze writing.
Some "in action" shots that show the scale of the work:
You like those bricks?? I didn't have a brick mat, so everyone of the lines on those puppies was drawn by ME with a small ball tool (looooong line..... loooooong line..... looooooong line...... short line.. short line.. short line... loooooooong line...... ect) ...... and THEN each brick was HAND PAINTED! You want to talk insanity?? Yeah... paint teeny tiny bricks for more than 4 hours and then call me! lol
P.s. This is the tiny kitchen that I made this cake in... that counter space you see and the kitchen table was alllll my work space. I had to stick stuff in the laundry room to dry as I was working.... James was forbidden in there for any reason and it made it REALLY hard to wash clothes when there were leaves all over the closed lid of the washer! lol
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