Date: 2010-03-16 11:14 am (UTC)
ext_189645: (Cats and Hounds)
From: [identity profile] bunn.livejournal.com
I have to say, I think once you've filled a cake with pvc piping and copper the essential cakiness is lost. You might as well just make a cover from plastic and fill it with a pile of cupcakes.

Date: 2010-03-16 11:26 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] wellinghall.livejournal.com
*nods sadly*

I do know what you mean.

Date: 2010-03-16 11:26 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] wellinghall.livejournal.com
You're up early! (Although I suppose you are on Daylight Saving Time over there, while we don't go onto it for another fortnight).

Date: 2010-03-16 11:27 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] eldritchhobbit.livejournal.com
Yep, we just switched over to DST this past weekend. I'm still getting used to it! :) Now off to walk Virginia...

Date: 2010-03-16 11:29 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] wellinghall.livejournal.com
Have a good walk! (and I hope Virginia is fully recovered by now)

Date: 2010-03-16 01:14 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] eldritchhobbit.livejournal.com
Thanks so much! We did. :) She still has another week of antibiotics left, but she's definitely feeling like herself again. Thanks for the good wishes!

Date: 2010-03-16 01:31 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] wellinghall.livejournal.com
I am pleased to hear it :-)

Date: 2010-03-16 12:09 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] gurthaew.livejournal.com
So, a cake that lights its own candles. Would it fight back when someone tries to blow them out?

Date: 2010-03-16 12:12 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] wellinghall.livejournal.com
I am reminded of our smoke-breathing dragon (you put an incense stick inside it). And of the smoke-breathing [livejournal.com profile] adaese (you put a liquid-nitrogen-filled biscuit inside her).

Date: 2010-03-16 12:31 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] estelyn-strider.livejournal.com
Sweeeet! Yes, the construction details do detract from the cake aspect, but how on earth would you get wings that spread out any other way?! Looks great.

Date: 2010-03-16 12:34 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] wellinghall.livejournal.com
I'm in two minds about the construction, but I certainly agree that it looks impressive!

How is your knee now, BTW?

Date: 2010-03-16 09:21 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] estelyn-strider.livejournal.com
My knee is recovering very nicely, thanks! I have to keep reminding myself to take it easy so as not to risk any repercussions...

Date: 2010-03-17 08:50 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] wellinghall.livejournal.com
I am pleased to hear it! :-)

Date: 2010-03-16 12:58 pm (UTC)
ext_189645: (Default)
From: [identity profile] bunn.livejournal.com
I wondered if something could be done with a very stiff toffee - though it would be very delicate then.

One day I must experiment with that idea!

Date: 2010-03-16 01:14 pm (UTC)
ext_189645: (Bungles)
From: [identity profile] bunn.livejournal.com
... Oh drat. Now my brain is absolutely seething with ideas for toffee dragon sculptures! I'm supposed to be working!

Damn disobedient brain. Wonder if I can make new brain from toffee...

Date: 2010-03-16 01:32 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] wellinghall.livejournal.com
Wonder if I can make new brain from toffee...

Can you make me one too, please?

Date: 2010-03-16 01:32 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] wellinghall.livejournal.com
One day I must experiment with that idea!

Please do! And send photos! And samples!!!

Date: 2010-03-16 01:42 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] the-marquis.livejournal.com
I would have thought layering up Imperial Icing might do the job as opposed to all this sugar paste pfaffing

Date: 2010-03-16 01:44 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] wellinghall.livejournal.com
What's Imperial Icing? (Presumably some very stiff sort ... )

Date: 2010-03-16 01:46 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] the-marquis.livejournal.com
Thanks for that I was in the middle of editing in:

Admittedly it would take longer and be more fragile but all the cake would be edible still. Mind you I think that pose, while very pretty, was asking for trouble and the need to use inedible bits in its making.

Look it up http://makeamenu.com/recipes/recipe/47.html or google

And as to your question its what I think is the right name for the hard icing my mum used to use on christmas cakes, before she went to an evening class and got all sugar pastey etc
Edited Date: 2010-03-16 01:47 pm (UTC)

Date: 2010-03-16 01:49 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] wellinghall.livejournal.com
Ah, I think I know the stuff you mean - thanks.

Our wedding cake dragon had bits that stuck out (although not as much as Smaug) - I'll ask [livejournal.com profile] adaese if she can remember how that was achieved.

ETA: Apparently it was all achieved without supports.
Edited Date: 2010-03-17 08:49 am (UTC)

Date: 2010-03-16 09:21 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] estelyn-strider.livejournal.com
I wonder if the toffee would stand up to humid air - that seems to be the greatest problem.

Date: 2010-03-17 08:49 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] wellinghall.livejournal.com
I feel that extensive experimentation is called for ...

Date: 2010-03-16 08:31 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] inzilbeth-liz.livejournal.com
I don't know anything about cake construction but I think it looks fabulous. Every kid's party should have one!

Date: 2010-03-17 08:50 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] wellinghall.livejournal.com
And every adult's! ;-)

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