Making of the Stargate cake
So, seeing as my cake has already been featured here, I thought I should actually get my own blog post up.
The backstory: this year, as many of you know, I took a couple of cake decorating classes. So, for Evan’s 25th birthday, I wanted to make him an awesome cake, but I didn’t know what to make. I had pondered making an iPhone cake, but that’s been done (and done well, I might add) before. With no ideas, I asked Evan what he wanted, and he decided upon a Stargate cake. Now, I’ve seen Stargate before, but I’d never paid close attention to the actual Stargate, so the cake started off with a lot of research and a couple of sketches.
Pardon the frosting spots. As you can see, I wanted the cake to be really true to the gate on sg1. Next up were flavor decisions to be made. That was easy, as I left it up to Evan: chocolate devil’s food cake, mint white chocolate ganache filling, and mint buttercream frosting.
For the chevrons, I choose to sculpt them out of chocolate clay, because I knew there was no WAY I’d be able to pipe them with buttercream. If I have one word of advice for working with this stuff, it would be to not panic when it looks terrible that first night. It really does need a night to cure (or something) before you use it. I started by rolling, measuring, and cutting the curved backs of the chevrons.
Up next, chevron fronts! The were cut out, shaped with a (very clean!) clay loop, and smoothed using a warm spatula.
Now all that’s left to do is attach the two, again using the magic of a hot spatula to melt chocolate.
Now on to the cake!
Here you can see I’ve gotten the bottom two layers down and filled, with the top ready for the third, carved layer of cake. Unfortunatly, there are no pictures of this, but the video has a nice shot!
The cake is all nice and ready to be decorated! Next challenge: what do to about that event horizon. It’s shiny and wavy and blue and white. Hey…marshmallow is shiny and white! And I could make it wavy! So I made some!
I let the marshmallow set up overnight, and started piping the next morning. Six hours later…
Geeks, notice the chart of glyphs in the background! They are in the proper order! (I hope)
Now, it looks good, but a little blue piping gel and some shimmer powder later…
…and it looks amazing!
Now I just had to finish those chevrons
and put them on the cake!
It looks cool and was very, VERY tasty.
