Understanding Comics Cake for Scott McCloud
Comics and cake, two things I strongly love. Recently I was asked to make a SURPRISE birthday cake for Scott McCloud, author of the highly praised “UNDERSTANDING COMICS.” The request was for a “simple looking frosted-chocolate cake.”
The cake was to say “UNDERSTANDING FIFTY,” as it was his fiftieth birthday and a play on “UNDERSTANDING COMICS.” The rest of the cake was to have an image off of his follow-up book, Reinventing Comics
While this cake looks simple I assure you, the simplest things take a lot of planning. Using a template and some practiced hand piping and a simple cake can be stunning!
Understanding Comics Cake for Scott McCloud
Ingredients:
frosted cake
fondant
white icing
Instructions:
I started by thumbnail sketching out ideas then finalized my design on the computer. I decided on a template for the letters and that I would draw the image by hand in frosting. I printed out my design on the computer and cut the letters out to form the template.
Once the fondant is rolled out I overlaid the template and here’s where my Architecture degree pays off, I used a clean x-acto and cut out the lettering by hand, shaping each fondant letter on it’s own.
Using a #5 tip and white icing, I piped the hand and quill image just below the text.
You’re unbelievable.
AOWW!!
Well, there were supposed to be little coding brackets like this {andrewdiceclay} AOWW! {/andrewdiceclay} but Blogger thought it was real coding. >sigh<
As delicious as it was beautiful!!
Thanks for creating such a great cake. ^__^
Awesome.
Looks great! The simple things are quite often hardest, I agree!
Ok, this is just a weird merging of worlds. I’m a huge fan of both of you!
Stupidity For The Win!
It’s a lovely cake. Cheers to your abilities.
I’m agreeing with Josh — it’s like a “when worlds collide” thing for me. Big fan of both of you and so glad to see comics and cake come together in truly delicious style. Yum!
The cake was delicious, as well as gorgeous!
kdb
Does it come with infinite frosting? Or microsprinkles?
The cake originated in pre-historic times; a caveman’s options were survival, reproduction, or cake. Proto-cake was more like mud however, and was refined as time went on into various disciplines of sweet-making. The combination of cake and frosting was considered for a long time to be uncouth and not befitting the professional chef, although we can plainly see frosting-like elements in many periods of cake history. Calling it frosting is certainly not going to impress a culinary connoisseur, however!
Totally amazing with a capital A.