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Cake Decorating: Cake for Bible Students
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Cake for Bible Students

A well-read Bible

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A well-read Bible
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Instructions

I used the Craftsy DVD "Decadent Chocolate Cakes by Alice Medrich to help outline the baking and assembly of the chocolate part of this project. Need access to a refrigerator/freezer to cool the cake to make carving/shaping easier. Need a steady hand for brushing design on gum paste butterfly and in the piping of the lettering. The bottom tier was of chocolate and the top tier (Bible) was ...
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Category: Cake Decorating

Type of item: Food

For: Charity

Style: Classic

Materials

Butter cream, bittersweet chocolate, semi-sweet chocolate, baking chocolate, printable icing sheets, gum paste, food color paste and gels, piping bags and tips 104, 21, 5, 66; cake ingredients for yellow and deep chocolate cake. Fillings wer raspberry and chocolate bittersweet ganache.

What was your inspiration?

Talking with the Bible students.

What are you most proud of?

People ate it and were surprized by how realistic it looked.

What advice would you give someone starting this project?

Working with butter cream in a warm environment is not the easiest thing to do. Add more Crisco to butter ratio to help stiffen this.

 

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Apolline Malik on craftsy.com
Apolline Malik
Nov 07, 2012    Flag as inappropriate
It's hard to imagine this is a cake as it's so realistic. You are indeed very talented.
Bobert on craftsy.com
Bobert
Oct 29, 2012    Flag as inappropriate
Thank you. After shaping the book part of this cake I not just crumb coated it but also built up areas so as to make it look as close to the real thing as I could. I used swiss butter cream for this. Delicious stuff that butter cream. I followed the Craftsy course on butter cream when making it. I then put the cake into the freezer for about 15 minutes-just to harden the butter cream. I carefully placed a sheet of paper on the rigid cake to get an accurate template for the pages. I then used a dedicated printer for icing sheets, which I bought through the Web site Icing Images to print pages from an actual Bible which I had earlier photographed. After placing the icing sheet with this edible image I placed the cake back into the freezer to harden the butter cream so that I could use a fan brush to apply the edging color that was mixed with alcohol. No luster dust was used.
cakelady on craftsy.com
cakelady
Oct 29, 2012    Flag as inappropriate
How did you get the words up there did you hand write all of it or is that an edible image? If so where did you get it from and also how did you do the edges of the bible meaning is that luster dust. Thank you for you answer I have a friend who would love to have a cake like this but I have no idea how to get the bible verses up there.
darleneravenell@yahoo.com on craftsy.com
darleneravenell@yahoo.com
Oct 03, 2012    Flag as inappropriate
did you use a book to make the template for the bible?
Bobert on craftsy.com
Bobert
Oct 03, 2012   Flag as inappropriate
If you call looking at how a book opens then yes. But when rerigerated, the cake becomes stiffer and is able to shape without having too many crumbs. After shaping then I crumb coated the basic shape with buttercream. Back into the refrigerator to stiffin the cake then I added more buttercream to create the final shape. mThen back into the refrigerator to stiffin again. Once out then I was able to add the coloring without messing up the buttercream basic shape.

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