My father in law is just a big kid. He has been a band director for over 30 years and is so good with his students – and it is obvious why. Being that his birthday cake was a gift from me, I had free reign over the design aspect. My husband and I brain stormed, and we new the cake had to capture his love for summer or boating or fishing. I found a similar cake online and thought I would give it a shot. She called her cake “fillet fish” – and I didn’t think I could possibly get my cake to look half as good as the original artist’s cake.
I found many shots of a real small mouth bass, as well as lures meant for bass and went head first. The fish is a carved cake, covered in fondant and hand painted with edible icing colors/vodka. The lure is also hand made and brushed with a gel to give it a “plastic” shine. Finally, the cutting board is also cake, covered in marbled fondant, scored to look like wood and again, hand painted with edible ice colors/vodka. Everything about this cake is edible except for the hooks – I just didn’t have the time or patience to figure out how to make these look real.
Favorite quote of the day “I’m going to post this on the fishing forum!...” to which I replied “I’m going to post this on the cake forum J”
The next cake order I received initially started with a request for a small birthday cake for 3 people’s birthday that needed to serve only 11 people. However, the client wanted the cake to be themed on their cabin, reflect the three birthday people, show the relation of the golf course, a putting green, a road, the cabin and the long lake behind the cabin with a dock… I wasn’t sure that would all fit on a small cake – so we came up with a design that would reflect 2 of the birthday people who enjoyed golfing, the other birthday person who loved to fish as well as incorporate the general “up north” feel. I had fun with this cake, the water was a lot of fun to incorporate, I made the fishing pole out of an uncooked spaghetti noodle, and the trees were a blast. Knowing this cake had cookies and cream filling inside – it was hard not to delve in to this cake.. YUM!
Keeping busy as usual, and also recovering from a short lived flu… sorry for the delayed posts lately… Thanks for staying interested J
Until next time,
Tam a Lam
