Category: Baking

Baking on Demand

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I’d like to tell you about the worst cake I’ve ever baked. Probably best not to look if you’re uncomfortable with blood, teeth and sweet, delicious Frankensteined fondant flesh.

I run a facebook group where I post cakes with threatening auras. These can be either deliberate or unintentional. To celebrate hitting a milestone for members, I proposed that I would bake a cake, with the features to decided by vote. The top results were the following:

  1. Teeth
  2. Fleshy colour palette
  3. Blood
  4. All of the above but a Minion cake

Honestly the minion part was the worst for me. Here’s my process for creating a cake so terrible that the question “cake or death?” yields 50/50 results.

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Bloody Baking

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Devil’s food cake, with some added ingredients, layered with dark chocolate ganache
Crumb coat of white chocolate ganache
The full coverage in white chocolate. This photo is blurry because the glass bowl I was using for the ganache shattered shortly before this was taken.
Adding the blood was surprisingly easy. It’s white chocolate ganache with red gel. I did lose the first batch when I tried adding dark chocolate chips for colour, as it all turned brown. It was a straightforward piping job, I just had to work quickly while the icing was still warmish
The finishing touch. When it came time to cut, the entire cake was able to be picked up just by grabbing the knife. For about three seconds.

Chicken Nugget Cake

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My friend Jules and I made a cake for a mutual friend’s birthday. The said friend loves. chicken. nuggets.

The nuggets were crumbed Madeira cake mixed with some vanilla icing. They were dusted with crushed scotch fingers for texture. We were originally going to dip them in white chocolate, then put the crumbs on, but they looked uncooked. As it was, I thought they looked pretty real
The fondant behemoth was red velvet cake
End result

Dawn of the Birth Day

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I made this for a friend’s birthday, and it was my first attempt at using fondant. It’s the moon from Majora’s Mask. Someday I’d like the make a version that was only the moon.

I used the claymation tools I got from the Aardman exhibition in Melbourne and I loved sculpting it.

First, I carved the cake, including adding the nose.

Then it was covered in jam for adhesion. Also AAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

Then the shroud of fondant. It was a very delicate process, and it did tear in some places as I moulded it to the cake

I painted the face using food dye and used black fondant to create the darkest spaces. I was very happy with the eyes.

Finally, it was placed on top of the base cake.

I figured that even if the moon didn’t work, there would still be a functional cake to devour. Ultimately it was tasty and horrifying and the birthday boy at the nose with gusto. It was very jam -y, apparently