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barbarafettToday I made the Inception cake that I posted the recipe for yesterday. It was a learning experience, but overall, I'm happy with the result.
Since the marble cake mix I bought was yellow and chocolate, I decided to use half the yellow batter to make the top (caramel) layer. That's the top layer on the left and the bottom (marble) layer on the right.
The melted caramel... didn't quite work as well as I'd hoped. I decided to dump all the liquid caramel onto the top of the yellow cake batter before I baked it. Not really surprisingly, since the caramel was more dense than the cake batter...
...it all sank to the bottom. I saved this by spreading the extra caramel goo in between the first and second layers, instead of frosting.
The bottom layer, after frosting.
The third (left) and second (right) layers. I didn't realize until too late that if I'd wanted the third layer to really be white, which was the original intention, then I should have separated my eggs. I was just mindlessly following cake-box directions, and I didn't. :/
Four layers of cake. Actually, much more stable than I expected. I didn't have any skewers to put in the cake, but it didn't matter; none of my layers collapsed. :-)
Different angle.
After putting on the blue (sky) frosting. I didn't realize just how hard it was to draw on a vertical surface with the frosting bag I had until I tried it. I gave up trying to draw clouds and an airplane on the cake after about two seconds.
After the base coats of frosting were finished.
After I had finished the rest of the frosting work.
The top of the cake is designed to resemble the interior of the PASIV Device. I referred to the manual in the back of my shooting script to draw it. I'm not the greatest frosting artist, though.
Different angle.
Since the marble cake mix I bought was yellow and chocolate, I decided to use half the yellow batter to make the top (caramel) layer. That's the top layer on the left and the bottom (marble) layer on the right.
The melted caramel... didn't quite work as well as I'd hoped. I decided to dump all the liquid caramel onto the top of the yellow cake batter before I baked it. Not really surprisingly, since the caramel was more dense than the cake batter...
...it all sank to the bottom. I saved this by spreading the extra caramel goo in between the first and second layers, instead of frosting.
The bottom layer, after frosting.
The third (left) and second (right) layers. I didn't realize until too late that if I'd wanted the third layer to really be white, which was the original intention, then I should have separated my eggs. I was just mindlessly following cake-box directions, and I didn't. :/
Four layers of cake. Actually, much more stable than I expected. I didn't have any skewers to put in the cake, but it didn't matter; none of my layers collapsed. :-)
Different angle.
After putting on the blue (sky) frosting. I didn't realize just how hard it was to draw on a vertical surface with the frosting bag I had until I tried it. I gave up trying to draw clouds and an airplane on the cake after about two seconds.
After the base coats of frosting were finished.
After I had finished the rest of the frosting work.
The top of the cake is designed to resemble the interior of the PASIV Device. I referred to the manual in the back of my shooting script to draw it. I'm not the greatest frosting artist, though.
Different angle.
