TL Bake-Off

On March 21 2009 10:57 sushiman wrote:
Sounds like fun, I love baking. :D
Last year I tried my luck making a tetris-themed cake for my ex-gf; I especially liked how the different-flavoured frosting turned out. Was very delicious.

On March 24 2009 15:41 hellhawk123 wrote:
TL Bake-Off Official Submission

Dickerdoodles: The Tutorial.



start with raw cookie dough

mold into shape

set oven to 350 degrees, heat for 12 minutes (in our demonstration, a Bangladeshi was used as our primary laborer, but any ethnic variety will suffice)

failure. note the distinct flattening in the orthogonal dimension

data collection and regression analysis

calculations

care was taken to dramatically scale the prebaking length

failure.

further modification

success!

decorative improvisation

commupenis

Apollo 69

the construction of these examples are left as an exercise to the reader

a jorb well done.

On March 24 2009 23:38 FuDDx wrote:






There it is done Hope you all enjoyed it.

On March 26 2009 16:14 SoLaR[i.C] wrote:
I don't have the "making of" pics, but I feel this is pretty self explanatory.



BTW, it's a banana cake with cream cheese frosting + a shitload of food coloring
[
My friend who took the picture cut off the buildings that are at the bottom of my cake too]

On March 31 2009 12:44 FuDDx wrote:
Ok here it is!!! A bunker!!!!!

I am not very pleased with my decorating of this one.Its the first time ive used royal frosting and now know what I should have.

I did a rainbow cake with Royal frosting (egg whites,powder sugar,lemon juice) It hardens very fast and is a breeze to color.
I also miscalculated the size of the cakes I needed so I had to off set the top of the cake in order for it to look good at all so all you get is a shitty frontal of my cake.

Hope you guys like it again I feel I could have done a much better job.



Heres some pics

This is my White base (Next time I need more frosting, in batches, not all at once)



Me working on it.

http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y162/FuDDx/2008_0516etccookingmore0017.jpg


More working on it



I ran out of my dark gray frosting and my royal icing technique is non existent currently.






Here you can see the colors of my rainbow cake (insides) also a small cake from leftovers etc.

On April 03 2009 19:36 ZooG wrote:
due to lack of own baking skills i told a friend about the "bake-hype" here on tl and since shes a starcraftfan and a awesome cake-maker she diceded to make a cake, this is the result:


heres a link to the site where you can see how it was made REAVERCAKE (the text is on swedish tho)

On April 05 2009 03:22 AlTheCake wrote:
Hey! We made (more like attempted) a siege tank cake. It took us a looooooonngggg time because it was the first time that we've ever made a themed cake. Oh and somewhere in the middle of this em wrote an essay. :o


Anyways, here are the pictures:












A JOB WELL DONE.

THANK YOU SO MUCH TO EMILY, YOU'RE FREAKING AMAZING<3

On April 06 2009 04:51 Robodude wrote:
My sister and I put together a photon cannon cake!







It was really hard to make - maybe a bit too ambitious since my sister is still learning all the tricks of the trade but we had fun making it.

EDIT: Forgot to mention but the whole thing is edible (except the wire holding up the energy ball - which is made up of cotton candy btw)

On April 08 2009 00:14 Smorrie wrote:
Here's my spaghetti/macaroni Dark Archon!


The preparation of the ingredients!

Curious?!



Spicing up the beef & boiling some water with a little bit of salt and some sunflower oil


Adding some veggies n shit to the beef.. Also throwing in mac & spaghetti..


Thrown in some sauce thing and some tomato shit.. Also adding some cheese n some final spices to the sauce! Mac & spaghetti are done.



Reference pic for Attempt #1...


... lOL? XD
figured to add some eyes too.



Figured to give it another shot with a different reference picture!


slightly better than #1 but still lulz :'(


At least it tastes good :D However now I'm stuck eating macaroni for 2-3 days now because I made way too much lol

On April 08 2009 11:41 CharlieMurphy wrote:
My friend's bday cake we made

On April 09 2009 14:27 uNcontroLable wrote:
So, if no-one minds, I'll enter for competition the ultralisk cake that started this madness. Behind the spoiler are the pics and making of from the ultralisk cake thread.

As a joke, I told Geoff I would make him an ultralisk-shaped cake in honor of the premiere of WCG Ultimate Gamer. This, he said, was impossible, and bet me that I could not do it. So I did.









The cake was mostly inspired by this picture:



And this one, as far as the marines:



So I started with those.

Next, I baked 3 cakes, 2 basic round vanilla, and ...you may be sorry you asked... one chocolate cake in a "Precious Pony" cake shape mold. (My mom had it left over from my 8th birthday. Lawl!)



I used the Pony shaped paper insert that came with the pan, and traced it onto newpaper. Then, with a sharpie, I drew an ultralisk over the existing shape, changing the legs, outlining the details, and expanding it to include the spiky hood and the blades. Once I had done that, I cut out the entire thing, and then cut the pony shape out of the middle. This left me with patterns for the shapes of the rest of the cake that would be fitted to the outside of the 'pony.' (sorry, my camera didn't have enough batteries to get pics of all these prelim steps.)

Usually, for a base, I would use a platter or a cookie sheet, but those were too small for my monster ultralisk plan, so I covered a cutting board with foil. I used a sharp knife to cut around the newspaper shapes in the vanilla cake, and then fitted them to the outside of the chocolate cake on the board.





Then, I had to frost them together, so that you couldn't tell it was different cakes. This took about 3 tubs of frosting. I mixed chunky chocolate and cream cheese to get the bumpy tannish-brown color for the body, and then used food coloring with vanilla and cream cheese frostings to make beige, purple, gray (which my friend who wanted to help kind of turned lavender in the end lol), and dark purple. I ran out like, a bajillion times.

I started with the body and the scythes, spreading the frosting with a butter knife. In order to spread it smoothly, I had to regularly dip the knife in a cup of warm water.



This was hilarious, because when I was done with the frosting that was to be spread, all that was left of the pony was his happy little face.



(At this point in the process, my camera completely ran out of batteries. Sry. If I had known people would have been so interested, I would have more carefully documented each step lol!)

Anyway, next, I loaded up 3 cake decorating bags with the beige, purple, and dark purple frosting. They have different shaped decorative nozzles and look like this:



Then, I cut up about 4 Hershey bars with a serrated knife (they break if you don't kinda saw them) into triangle shapes.

Using the frosting bags, I added the outlines, attached the spikes and the claws, and drew the face.

As a finishing touch, I broke some teddy grahams in half, attached them to the board with red gel frosting, and then made some others lying in blood puddles near the bottom. I used the rest of the purple frosting for the words, and then gave them a shadow effect with the rest of the red. The final product was as you saw:



and THAT, my friends, is how you make an ultralisk cake for your superstar boyfriend. <3


BUT...I have another something up my proverbial sleeve, so don't rest easy yet... ULTRABAKER WILL STRIKE AGAIN

On April 25 2009 07:41 epicdoom wrote:
Here's my "submission" I guess!

It was supposed to be a bunker BUT ended up like a retro Bunker Seige Tank with Brownie + Cake mix it was quite good tasting not as good looking but here ya have it