26/7/08

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juliegrad
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The girl. The diploma. The smile.


juliegrad2
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Note the child retains her essential character despite her academic success.
madrobins: It's a meatloaf.  Dressed up like a bunny.  (Default)

Intermediate Cake Class 1
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As promised, photos of the first week of cake class's results. I find it a little, um, creepy, but it's all about the skills, isn't it? Clown 1 is on his back, Clown 2 is lying on his tummy with his legs crossed in mid-air; and Clown 3 is sitting on the edge of the cake with his legs dangling down. All their heads are made of marshmallows, lavishly adorned with frosting, and the bodies are all frosting, assisted in places with toothpicks or half a plastic straw (the armature for the seated clown, whose body is a vast pile of buttercream).



cake2
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Here's the other side, including the seated Clown with his legs dangling down the side of the cake.

I can see as how this is a process that would improve with practice. I'm going to have to think of reasons to make a cake with Thalidomide Characters on it. Ents? Dwarves? Really scary babies? Must consider.