Edited 2/27/09 to add additional pictures.I know these pictures aren't the greatest, but I just finished the cake and want to show it off. I'll take more pictures in the morning.
This cake is for a birthday party tomorrow afternoon. I wanted to finish it tonight just in
case my son doesn't cooperate with his naps tomorrow, also I've never done a 3D cake of this magnitude.
The practice cake earlier this week turned out to be a disaster. It wasn't tall enough, my air brush in a can didn't work, and I didn't have a clue how to do the details.
I decided to change from my original plan of Darth Vader to a Clone Trooper. I have been
learning a lot about Star Wars characters this week. The cake is 4-6" rounds of chocolate,torted with chocolate buttercream icing between the layers. I carved the top and evened the sides to make it a nice round shape. I iced the whole thing in chocolate buttercream, and then got to work on the fondant.
I had some problems with the fondant tearing, but I was able to cover most of it with the accent pieces. There is a problem spot on one side that I couldn't cover, but it is fine for my first real fondant cake. I ended up buying Wilton fondant. I wanted Satin Ice, but I can't buy it locally, didn't have time to drive to the nearest decorating shop, and didn't want to pay a bunch in shipping costs. Next time I am in Cincinnati or Louisville I'll pick some up.
This cake will serve 16, I only charged $28, since I wanted the option to do a regular cake if it didn't work out. If I do another cake like this in the future, what do you think I should charge? I am thinking around $50 but I'm not sure. It wasn't a terribly time consuming cake, and once I know what I am doing I could do it pretty quickly. Of course once I know what I am doing I could add more detail too.
4 comments:
It looks good. I wanna see the other pics though :-)
For a carved, fondant covered cake I would charge/pay around $50, but this one is a bit smaller, so maybe around $40???
Wow, You did great. That was an odd shape with some hard detail but you pulled it off. I'll be working with fondant in class. I would like to make marshmallow fondant because it taste better than the Wilton.
Michel- I did marshmallow fondant for the onesie cookies and my farm cake. It worked really well, however, I haven't had a lot of success with rolling it out large enough to cover a cake. I have another recipe to try, but I didn't want to chance it with this particular cake.
Monica- the mom ended up paying me $40, without me asking. She just gave me cash when she picked up the cake. I felt like that was a reasonable amount.
Carved cakes covered in fondant generally go for a lot more than that.
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