I made my 2nd sculpted/3D cake and I'm so happy with it! This was made for my nephew who's turning 12 and loves to fish and said that he "was put on this earth to fish." He also just joined a junior bass fishing club. The fish itself is rice krispie treats and then covered in the MMF and then detailed and hand painted. The cake is strawberry, his favorite, with buttercream. I made the cattails from gum paste. I also made some lures, sinkers and bobbers and put them on cupcakes as decoration.
This is an instructable on how I made it. :)
This is an instructable on how I made it. :)
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Signing UpStep 1: Mold the Rice Krispie Treats
First I made a double batch of Rice Krispie treats. I just used the recipe on the box, but you can find it here: http://ricekrispies.com/#/recipes/the-original-treats
With a light coating of Crisco on my hands I molded the treats around dowels in the shapes of the 2 parts of the fish.
With a light coating of Crisco on my hands I molded the treats around dowels in the shapes of the 2 parts of the fish.
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I would love to see the pic! Your welcome, and thank you!!!
i tried it this weekend, and loved it. thank you again.
it has my 18 year old daughter with her cake too...
Thank you for posting your cake photo, that's awesome! I'm glad my steps helped. Sometimes I'm not sure I show enough, but when I'm caking and my hands are all dirty, I forget to take photos.
Thank you!
Tami C.
I just used to wide end (not the tip) of a piping tip and pushed it into the fondant to make the circle. THen painted the whole eye with a light greenish wash, then painted in the pupil with a greenish dull black. And last, I painted, with a fine tip brush, inside the crease of that circular indention I made, with a green-brown color.
And thank you again!!! I've got no cake orders until August so thinking about taking this time to make some cakes I've been wanting to try to make.
I mixed the greenish brown shade myself, using the leaf green and brown colors.
I'd let the fins dry for about 2-3 hours before I applied them and painted them. The cat tails were made out of gum paste, not fondant, so they dried pretty fast, about an hour or less.
I made the rice krispies ahead of time and kept them covered until i was ready to use them. They stayed pliable for quite a long time so there was no rush to mold them and it didn't take too long to mold them into the fish halves.
As far as tips go, uh, I'm not sure, lol. When sculpting the fish I just tried to look at the basic shape of the fish without the fins, and try to sculpt what I see. I did an online image search and found pics of bass from several different angles. when I'm carving cake I start with the cake and trim off cake to eventually get the shape i want but with the rice krispies I had to build up. Makes it a lot easier to handle the rice krispies if your hands are coated with a light layer of crisco or butter, to keep your hands from sticking to them.
For the fondant, it's always easier to me if i have a good non-stick surface to work it on, like a large silicone mat or the vinyl mat that I use. Can usually find some at fabric stores and have it cut to whatever size you need. I've use Wilton's fondant rolling and cutting mat before and hated it. Everything stuck to it so bad. With the vinyl mat I use i usually coat my working area with a very thin coating of crisco just to help things not stick. I also do this and use this mat when I'm making the fondant, for the kneading part. You will want to work quickly when rolling out the fondant and covering your pieces so that the fondan't doesn't dry out and crack. I also don't roll it too thin, to help avoid tearing or cracking when I'm smoothing it over sculpted pieces. I guess I usually roll it somewhere around 1/8" thick. For large pieces of rolled out fondant I roll it up on my rolling pin to make transferring it to the piece easier. Then just un roll it over the piece you want it on then start smoothing it down from the top then down.
I hope any of that helped! Sometime I will have to do a video because I'm not great at trying to explain these things, lol!
I had gotten my vinyl from a cake shop (still pretty inexpensive at $6) but I saw our local Walmart had some (in the fabric department) so I'd say there's a good chance they have it at yours!
Good luck with the cake!!! Feel free to ask more questions! Have a wonderful night and day!
Here's how mine turned out... Thought it went pretty well being as I'm only 16 haha
I actually rolled it into a big circle and covered the fish from over the top, allowing enough slack/extra fondant to go into the mouth so I could use my fingers to smooth it out inside the mouth after I finished covering it.
I hope that makes sense!
Thank you!
Tami
You are so helpful, I really appreciate that so much!
Cathy
I just delivered a cake today and I made the Rice Krispie® treats on Tuesday, covered/sealted them well, and then used them to make the sculpture on Friday and covered it with royal icing and fondant, painted it on Saturday, finished it all that night, and delivered the cake today (Sunday.)
Once all covered up with the fondant, they stay pretty fresh, and even last quite a while before covering in fondant; provited they are well covered/sealed.
Last year for That Takes the Cake 2011 I made Hellboy's head out of Rice Krispie® treats covered in royal icing then fondant. I took only his head home after the show and 8 days later cut into it and the treats were still great, and yummy. :) But it was February and still cool out. Not sure they would have been fine in summer here in Texas, so I guess factor in your climate!
That's awesome! I'm sure he will LOVE it. Good luck!
:)
Tami :)
And thank you!
Fantastic work! Whoever gets this cake will never, ever forget this special gift. It's a piece of ART!!
Everything, with the exception of the gum paste lures, sinkers and bobbers, took about 9 hours. The gum paste stuff took about 4 hours. I'm trying to get faster with the more sculpted/3-D cakes I make. This was my second one and with the gum paste stuff included it took longer than when I made the Yoda head cake! Just going to keep making stuff and hopefully I will get faster. :)
I usually use the snow white butter cream recipe from Wilton. That recipe uses less Crisco. It makes 7 cups of icing. How much icing does your icing recipe make?
I've just been using the recipe from the cake classes I'm taking. I'm not sure how many cups it makes, it's listed as the 2 lb recipe in our packet. The recipe calls for anywhere from 1.5 to 2 cups of Crisco and I've just been using 2 cups but I'm thinking of trying to use less. Does using less make it thicker or stand up better in heat? I'm in Texas and anything that helps it stand up to heat better is my friend!
You do fantastic work, and I love the idea of molding with rice krispie treats.
The cool part is that everything is edible! (although fondant tastes nasty) Awesome job!
I actually used marshmallow fondant, which actually tastes very good! It's a really easy recipe to make (uses only marshmallows, powdered sugar and a little bit of water) and it's nice to use fondant that tastes good instead of the nasty tasting store-bought stuff.
Although I don't watch Cake Boss, I have been watching Ace of Cakes for about 8 months and I love it!!! I haven't seen this cake from them. I saw a photo of the one where they had the bass flat on the board with the tackle box next to it, which can be seen on their site in the gallery. I'd like to see what specific cake you are talking about though! Be interesting to see how close I came to it without seeing it or knowing it existed!
But anyways, nice Instructable. Very detailed design too.