Monday, August 12, 2013

Tesseract Cake

The photo progression of the Tesseract cake for Shiori's 5th birthday.

Frozen cakes make the day before

Couple types of fondant - black and white in color

First we put on Thor and then we begin!

Crumb coat base

Derails scaled to fit (sort of) the size of the cake

Cutting cube to fit diagram (ooo leftovers YUM)

Pause to make chili for dinner & eat lunch 

Laying on the first fondant layer and marking the center of the cake

Laying in the black fondant and placing the cube


Frost cube with white (cheesecake flavored frosting)
Paint in details & cube
Add blue sugar for cube sparkle (can't tell in pic)

Cut out other detail bits

Eat Dinner and put on Avengers

Paint the detail bit...very carefully

Assemble!!!!
  1. Pipe on all the blue circuit stuff
  2. Score the lines in the black
  3. Paint some add-ons the right color
  4. Try not to put knuckle in cube (that is done)
  5. paint a WHOLE lot of silver

Done at 10 something pm