CAKE!!!

Posted on August 21, 2016

Not a new hobby of mine, but a relatively new hobby of my wife’s that I helped her out with. The daughter of a couple of friends of ours turned 2 this weekend, and my wife has been amping up her cake making skills for a few years. (Note: my birthday cakes are amazing!)

She was making a Minion cake, and I got drafted into a very small part of it – making the goggles.

We started with fondant. I’ve never experienced fondant before my wife, but it seems like everyone else who hears the word has experienced it before. It’s vaguely reminiscent of our green stuff, but edible. I’m told “barely edible”, but I actually don’t mind the taste of it. I mashed together some black and white until we got a grey colour, then rolled it out about 3/4″ thickness and then used a cookie cutter to make a circle. A smaller cookie cutter went into the center of that and I carefully pulled the remainder away. I rolled up a cylinder and made 8 rivets, and 2 more smaller cylinders to make hinges.

This next photo should look familiar to us all — just replace the fondant lumps with 6 paint pots each, and it’s pretty much the same desk. 😛

While I did this, my wife continued with her hobby. It took her 3 nights to make this cake, and these photos are from night 2! She’d made 5 small cakes and layered them with butter cream icing between each layer. Then she smoothed a yellow sheet of fondant down, and started adding pieces to make it look like a Minion! There’s a lot of detail in this, from little “stitching” in the coveralls, to spaces left open to make it look more layered, to the incredible specular reflection in the eye!

The final result!

And a couple photos from the reveal!

(funny story: the reveal for the young one was actually about a half hour earlier when she opened the fridge door. Apparently her parents have repeatedly asked her not to open the fridge door, but this time my friend walked into the kitchen to see his daughter standing shocked and gaping into the fridge, staring at this Minion that was staring back at her. She was sad to have it all ripped away so quickly, but my friend distracted her with presents :D)