Tuesday, May 22, 2012

What Have I been Doing Lately, You Ask?
















No, I haven't moved to soft-core porn (although I am about to read 50 Shades of Gray, and I hear that maybe I WILL be reading writing some soft porn. I hear it's lucrative....I digress).


To celebrate a friend's birthday, another mutual friend volunteered to make a pink panty cake (because one of the birthday girl's favorite drinks happens to be something called pink panty: pina colada frozen mix, melon rum, coconut rum, grenadine and pineapple juice)...with me.


 HUH? I don't bake much--although I love to decorate...But anyway, after googling "how to make a butt-cheek-shaped cake" (don't do it. results are ugly), I realized we'd have to go it alone...and this is what we came up with. We are delighted with the results, it was a fun cake to present, and it was even delicious...

To make it, I baked one round layer and two cereal bowls of Dorie Greenspan's pound cake. After some discussion of ideas, Kerrie had the vision that became the finished cake. (She's done this before..)

We sliced the round layer in half on the horizontal, then used that for the legs and the waist/back. We carved the bowls into a lovely bum, and then we "glued" it together with strawberry jelly (no fruit pieces) and covered if first with the flesh-colored fondant, then the little panty, then the ruffles and then the pink pearl trim. I still think we should have covered the entire thing with buttercream to smooth it out, but that was my learning curve....

Anyway, we loved making it, and I will have fun making more decorated cakes in the future...

And Dorie's pound cake is the perfect medium for these sculpting efforts...
(And for those of you wondering, we put the candles in little cocktail glasses to the side of the cake...it just didn't seem right to put candles...well, ANYwhere into the cake...)

And Ps. I am especially proud of us for having done this without any template at all, just a vision and collaboration...

6 comments:

Katy Manck, MLS said...

What a stunning cake! And great work on y'all's part to do it without templates and how-to instructions.

Very glad that the candles got their own holders off-cake, too.

Hope that the birthday gal appreciated your fabulous cake & that y'all had just the right number of cocktails to go along with it.

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Lisa Carter said...

Gorgeous cake! My sister often used to make birthday cakes for our nieces and nephews in whatever shape they wanted. She sure had to do some creative thinking, but I think that must be half of the fun, like you did here.

Anjuli said...

Wow this is amazing- what creativity!!!!!

patti said...

Cute cake - you guys are so creative. How did the birthday girl like it?

TCC said...

Ambitious and really great. I enjoy cake decorating but have ot done any in a long while. You make me want to get out my tips and play!

TCC said...

Ambitious and great. I love decorating cakes but haven't doen any in a looong time. You make me want to get out my tips and play!