Here goes one of my New Year's resolutions, that I haven't yet broken or abandoned... I'm going to make at least one post per month, fingers crossed here goes....
It's been a strange week here in the 'burbs of Atlanta. It snowed last Sunday and we were all excited at the prospect of no school on Monday - we got our wish, five-fold - school's been out all week, the roads have been treacherous for the most part of that too. The end result has been cabin fever, which is a very real and very traumatic form of psychosis!
A good part to being stuck home is not the endless cleaning that I could have been doing, where's the fun in that y'all? But, I had time to make Stu's birthday cake. What other kind of cake could I have made for the guy who has his iphone attached to his hand most of the waking day, but an iPhone. I had fun doing this one. It's all on a x3 scale - yes I measured meticulously and then set about cutting out the squares for the background apps and then making the icons to go in them, and no I don't have a cutter that's 2.7cm square they just don't exist! The only cutter I had was for the music notes, all others are originals by my hand. There are a few details missing, i.e. the chrome trim & buttons on the side and the white writing under each app. These were the extra supplies I was going to pick up this week, along with his other birthday gifts but are all still in the stores right now as the roads have been horribly icy.
The cake is 13.5" x 6.9", 3 layer chocolate orange cake with chocolate orange whipped buttercream. Cake balls with the trimmings to come. The girls are making the cake balls, it was the trade off for them not 'helping' with the big cake, this might be the only post for January as I'll be cleaning the kitchen into February (and as always I had to google how to spell Feb!).....
Thanks for looking!
When I saw this I had the same reaction as I do to any Apple kit...
ReplyDeleteI WANT THIS CAKE! NOW!
Very, very cool cake though. That's some talent you have.