I made this! Pt. 4
Isn’t she pretty? I didn’t want to name her, but I must admit, I still felt a bit of a pang when I handed her over to Jillian, who met me at the end of the class to adopt my cake. After you spend two straight days moulding her, dressing her, fixing flowers in her hair and adjusting her cakey boobs, you kind of get attached to this mass of mud cake and fondant.
She is a Naughty Fairy cake, which I learnt how to make in Planet Cake’s Basics 104 class. I’ve attended a few of their other classes before, but I specifically signed up for this class (which was spread out over two days) because I’d never made a 3D cake before, and figured, once you knew the basics, you could apply this skill to any other type of 3D cake. Not to mention the fact that it’s so much fun and you get to meet and ‘talk cake’ with a whole bunch of other like-minded people. Lorinda, for example, who makes the most gorgeous looking cakes (and she has won prizes for them too!). You might want to consider her if you ever need a cake in the future.
The other great thing about this class, apart from the fact that the instructor Handi Mulyana made everything look so easy, was that you could go nuts and customise your fairy as much as you wanted; from skin colour and hair colour, to the style of dress and accessories – as can be seen from the group shot of all the fairy cakes (or the graduating class of 104, as I like to call it). Note the ciggie in the demo fairy cake’s mouth on the far right, and the one of the far left, made by Linda, which has a touch of the Dolly Partons about her (the cake that is, not Linda!).
Jillian sent me an email this morning to let me know that the Fairy cake was very much appreciated at her dinner party. So she wasn’t just a naughty fairy, but a very happy one as well!
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belle said,
May 19, 2008 @ 5:40 pm
You are too clever! I still haven’t made any cupcakes after doing the cupcake class (but ‘at least I’ll know how’). And all those fairies REALLY look like Bad Girls…
Aran said,
May 19, 2008 @ 6:10 pm
That is gorgeous!
Lorraine E said,
May 19, 2008 @ 6:51 pm
Brilliant work, those fairies are absolutely adorable!
Lorinda said,
May 20, 2008 @ 7:52 am
Hey Lemonpi, thanks for the plug!
It was really terrific meeting you in the flesh after reading your blog. When I took my fairy to work, the security people at the desk wanted to cut her open to make sure there wasn’t a bomb inside. That would have been a naughty fairy indeed. Lucky for me, they didn’t see the wires coming out of the wings … I look forward to seeing future examples your newly acquired 3D cake skills!
Y said,
May 20, 2008 @ 8:42 am
Belle: Yeah, they’re very pneumatic, aren’t they! It didn’t occur to me how boobilicious they all were til I saw them all lined up for the photos. Credit must be given to the Planet Cake staff who manage to make everything so simple and almost fool proof, for us.
Lorinda: That’s hilarious! How did you manage to talk them out of it? I’m not sure I will be making any 3D cakes in the near future. Don’t really have the tools to drill holes in boards and gluegun things in place! (or maybe I could just make smaller cakes instead?)
Baking Soda said,
May 20, 2008 @ 4:06 pm
Amazing! I couldn’t believe this was cake! Now my boys want one for their 12th birthday…. yeah right!
Lorinda said,
May 21, 2008 @ 7:27 pm
Well, they were joking (but only half) and I had my security pass on me. Plus, they had to escort me to my desk. :-/
It’s not really essential to glue the dowel to a hole in the board if you’re not transporting the cake vigorously; the cake is so heavy I reckon it wouldn’t have budged if we’d just used the dowel pushed into the cake plus the 2 skewers. So you needn’t mind too much about not having the tools.
Do you know, I didn’t know that there was a difference between what was in the pink and yellow cups (until much later), so I really hope I didn’t douse my cake with water instead of cointreau syrup!
W said,
August 7, 2008 @ 8:15 am
Does that Naughty Fairy Cake on the far right have a fag in her mouth?
Y said,
August 8, 2008 @ 9:15 am
W, yes, she’s a very naughty fairy ! 😉