This is the Winter Wonderland Cake that I made for My neices 18th Birthday…You Can see a bigger image on flicka
She had no idea that I was making it and was Gobsmacked when she saw it…
The finishing touch is that when I turned on the power the fire glowed, large image on flicka…To make the Electric fire I covered a shallow box with glad wrap and placed it upside down under the cake, I cut a small hole in the box to fit the light from a small lamp and I cut a slightly larger hole in cake so that I could place a shot glass over the globe to protect it from the icing…Once I had the structer in place, see image of naked cake below, it was simpley a matter of crinkling a small piece of red cellophane and placeing it over the light with a few twigs and flake chocolate rocks.
Below is an image of the Naked Cake that shows how I built up the shape and the hole with the shot glass covering the electric light bulb.
Cake anyone…It didn’t look so good after the party but it was the funnest cake I have ever made.
The frosty icing is made by dribbling boiling sugar syrup into beaten egg whites…It was a bit tricky to make but after 3 batches I had it mastered…It is a lovely icing to work with, very, very sticky and Ohh so yummy.
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August 12th, 2006 at 5:37 pm
Annie I think that this may be the most fantastic cake that I have ever seen. I used to make cakes for the public but I never made one that used this much imagination. Great job. And I love all your CQ blocks. Will be back to drool over all the great eye candy. Good job.
DD in Louisiana, USA
August 13th, 2006 at 3:43 am
I love this cake! What a wonderful, fun thing for you to do for an 18th birthday. Thanks for showing the pics of how you did it, too. I always like to see how things are done.
August 13th, 2006 at 3:50 pm
Annie… you are a woman of many talents! Love the glowing fire and your niece’s reaction to it… it must have taken hours to get that just right!
December 2nd, 2007 at 8:48 am
Very nice!