This past
weekend my grandmother watched my kids while I went to my final cake class and
she showed me a super cool new treat I could make, hamburger cookies. Well I
immediately said “that could be a Krabby Pattie, I have to make a SpongeBob
cake now”
Guess who
has a birthday coming up, THE HUBS, guess who is getting a SpongeBob cake! He
hates SpongeBob but that’s Ok, he likes to oblige me :o) He said as long as it
is chocolate cake inside he doesn’t care what the outside looks like.
I decided
that the design of the cake would be the ocean with the small island,
SpongeBob, Patrick and the palm trees.
I purchased
the SpongeBob toys rather then making them. I did watch some you tube videos on
how to make them but making figures scare me. I tried it once and came out
horrible, I will stick to animals for now :o) I did however see them make
striped towels and that’s where I got the idea to make the towels that went
with them from fondant.
The Palm
Trees……Oh boy! No I know full well that for any that has to ‘suspend’ or hold a
rigid shape you need to mix/make it with gum paste. I tried to just make them
with fondant…..FAIL! I couldn’t get them to hold together let alone attach to
the ‘trunk’ (pretzel). In theory they were a super cute project if I had done
it the way I know it should have been done.
I
personally don’t think that gum paste tastes all that good and that’s why I try
to avoid using it. For some reason I have this hang up that all things need to
be edible on a cake and while gum paste is (it’s VERY hard depending on the
ratio to fondant) to me it tastes like dish soap.
Here's the cake.....
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