Alrighty.. so, a few nights ago (or maybe just the other day, I don’t remember) an anonymous poster sent me a link to the threadcakes contest, and said that they thought I might be interested in taking a crack at it.

Basically, the premise of the contest is to take a threadless teeshirt design, and make a cake which is your interpretation of that teeshirt design.

Not being one to back down from a challenge, I sat on a few days, and like a true procrastinator (the deadline is tomorrow at midnight) I turned to my husband today around… 4pm, and said “we should do this” and he got a wild glimmer in his eye, and instead of knocking some sense into me like I thought he would have (”Andrea? What are you thinking?  We don’t have time for this! We had dinner plans. We were supposed to do something this evening!”) Nope. He agreed.

So we spent about an hour searching for a design. Something that would transfer well to a cake, but yet not be so simple that just anyone could do it. However, it needed to be so simneverbashfulwithbutter.comhttp://www.neverbashfulwithbutter.comple that WE could do it, and we settled on this design-

Quite fitting, since.. well.. I’m an insomniac. Also, for Christmas I bought my husband a little glow in the dark sheep, and we thought this would be a great chance for him to get to hang out with his homies, at least… fondant homies..

Anyways.. we decided we would make a round cake, and make little sheeps out of fondant, or chocolate, or.. marzipan or something, and then affix them to the round cake which would have the numbers on the sides and regular grass on top.

Let me just tell you, we did this whole thing in the hours between 5pm until about an hour ago at 10pm. 5 hours from grocery store, baking, cooling, setting up, decorating, photographing, digesting, editing and now- posting. Seriously.. I’m so tired.

At any rate, I’ll post the photos here. We had to take photos of the process, and I really wasn’t worried so much about the clearness and quality of the photo, because it was late, we had bad lighting, and the florescents in the kitchen turn everything yellow and Blah blah blah.. The photos are alright, just not the same quality that I usually post. bear with me, aaight?

So here goes-

First, ya gotta make yer cakes-

Yellow top layer, chocolate bottom. Ignore the messy stove top, plz.

Melted dark chocolate for the sheep accent pieces. I don’t have the patience to tint fondant black. heh.

I was calling these the sheep larvae. We made the texture by poking a thick plastic straw end into the fondant after it’d been rolled in a ball  and dried for about 5 minutes. I have a big issue with this sort of texture, so I kind of had to separate myself from myself when I was doing it, also, I had Aaron make two of them so I only had to make two. I just don’t like bumps.

These were the sheeps feet before they were stuck into the sheep larvae…

Yes.. they are stuck in a muffin.  Muffins have many uses around my house. No, don’t think about how strange it is that I have muffins lying around waiting to be used for such things as a sheep leg pin cushion. Just go with it.

Sheep just before I gave it little eyes. The muzzle was made out of a dark chocolate chunk that I carved the end of so it was rounded instead of squared. This was plan B. Plan A involved too much wait time, and we were on a schedule, so.. yeah, this would have to do. I liked it better anyways.

Three finished sheeps. They each have their own little personality.

And finally, on the cake!

Closeup!
This photo has issues. I don’t know how that happened. I kinda fell asleep while editing the yellow out, so that’s probably why. hehe.. DONT SLEEP AND PHOTOSHOP, KIDS!

The final product!

Grass.

Sheep eating grass.

More sheeps eating grass. They look kinda funky in this photo. Again, I blame this on my sleeping during editing.

The numbers on the sides!

The one that almost got away..

“ewe don’t want to eat meeee”

“munch”

mmm.. caaaaaake..

Well, we had to prove that the sheep were edible, so.. sorry sheep!

..Now he’s just got a mohawk.

CAAAAAKE!!!

All in all, this was a pretty cool idea, pretty cool contest. I just wish I hadn’t procrastinated quite as long, because I would have made more than one cake design and I wouldn’t have felt as rushed.

Still though, it was fun! Hope you enjoyed the pics

-A.

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