cakes

[frith_in_thorns]

So I'm heading off to a 5 day LAN party tomorrow with about 50 other people (mostly guys).  Because it's the 5th LAN organised by these people I was commissioned to make some "fancy-looking" cakes to celebrate, in return for a £5 discount.  I've spent most of today (I'm not kidding - about 10 hours) in the kitchen making them, and right now I think I might "suggest" that I get a discount to the next one too, because methinks Shazz has no idea how much work baking and decorating cakes is, even amateur ones.  And right now I'm very tired.

Anyway, the cakes!  Top one's vanilla sponge with raspberry jam filling and bottom one's chocolate with chocolate butter icing filling.  The design is based on the game Team Fortress 2, which is the general favourite at these particular LANs.  It's a shooter with loads of classes which are recognisable in silhouette form, so I went about recreating that.  Character choices on the cakes are not arbitary, but contain too many in-jokes for me to bother explaining. Decoration is all fondant icing, apart from the slightly wonky piping which was butter icing, and they're each sitting on a standard size baking tray, to give some idea of size.  They're also higher than they look here, and the glaze is still drying, so they do look better when not camera-flash illuminated!

Just hoping that people like them when I get them there tomorrow!

Comments

[stained_glass]

Oh, wow! They look professional, honey - well done!

[frith_in_thorns]

Thank you! :D The piping went slightly awry, but I was so tired I couldn't care any more, and I'd run out of icing sugar. (Which brings me to wonder why I'm still up...)

Also, I sort of dropped the top half of the chocolate cake on the worksurface and it broke into six or so pieces - I swore at it for about a minute straight and then played jigsaw puzzles with it. Thankfully that seems to be hidden now!

*would like to feed you cake*

[calcitrix.livejournal.com]

Those are awesome!

[frith_in_thorns]

Thanks! I may now have a phobia of cutting shapes from icing :P

[astridv.livejournal.com]

Cool! (yum...)

[frith_in_thorns]

I'm looking forward to eating them now :)

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

Nice cakes! I am very impressed.

[frith_in_thorns]

Thank you! :D

[one-wingx.livejournal.com]

Those are awesome. Have fun at the LAN party.

[frith_in_thorns]

Thank you, and I will! :)

[leesa_perrie]

They look great!! I think you should get a discount for the nex gathering, so much work!!

(Yes, I know, it's a Christmas icon - but look, cake!! *bg*)

[frith_in_thorns]

Cake icons are always relevant :D

And yes, I am going to be pointing out how much work they were! Once I've actually got to eat some, that is!

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

I like that icon, too! :-)

[schneefink.livejournal.com]

Pretty! Mmm, cake.

[manylelephants.livejournal.com]

Wow! These are absolutely brilliant!

And the GLaDoS award for cake baking excellence goes to...

Looks like Tora now has a serious rival in the cake making dept.