The pond was made using gel icing with blue sparkles. I used 3 bears from a bag of Teddy Grahams for the little brothers. I also used some dark green sugar for lichen and moss. I also made a little pond (changed from a stream in the original drawing) and used more crushed Graham Crackers to give the pond a little beach area. I hid the bases by sprinkling some crushed Graham Crackers around them.
I melted more chocolate tomake little discs to glue the base of the Menhirs to, for greater surface area for stability. Troubleshooting: Once I started installing the Menhirs on the top of the hill I realized the cake was too spongy to keep the Menhirs upright. There was nothing special about how I layered and frosted the cake.
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As I mentioned earlier, this 'ible was not about how to bake a cake and frost it, but rather, how I made the parts and pieces for the decoration. I frosted the two pieces together, and then frosted the rest of the cake in Betty Crocker Cream Cheese Frosting that was tinted green. I cut the second one in 1/2 diagonally and then cut a gentle slope up the diagonal cut. The second one was used for the hillside. The piece in the step by step images is not the one I used in the final iteration of the cake. This whole process could have been skipped completely by just carving everything from a whole solid block of chocolate. Note: when I finally got the semi finished facade onto the cake I realized the scale was completely off, so I had to break it apart and re-melt it and re-did the scale on the cardboard and the foam. I used a dental pick and a few clay sculpting tools (wash these beforehand if you normally use these on other sculpting products).
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Once the warm melting chocolate had been poured into the mold, cooled and popped free from the foil mold I proceeded to carve details into the piece. That will either add character to the piece, or will get carved out. Don't worry about crinkles and creases in the foil. I then smooth some foil over the taped foam and cardboard, making sure all foil has been tucked into all the crevices. Once I am happy with the positioning of the foam I tape the parts to the cardboard to keep them from shifting. I then cut the foam meat trays and layered them in the reverse order of what I wanted the final result to be. I started by rough drawing the position of the door and window, as well as the outline of the cottage facade.
I gathered the following materials and tools. I then broke the pieces off, dipped the popsicle stick in the warm chocolate and used it to glue the roots and branches to the trunk / log. I also drizzled some chocolate on the foil in random shapes so as to simulate branches and roots. make a shallow pool out of the foil and pour in the chocolate, just like the Stones and Menhirs step above.Īfter the trunk was cooled and popped from the mold I dipped a popsicle stick in some melted chocolate and ran it up and down the trunk repeatedly so as to roughen up the smooth surface of the trunk. I crinkled the foil to where the creases were running in the same direction so as to simulate tree bark. If you have seen the movie, you'll understand the use of the Menhirs. I then made shallow pools out of the foil and poured the warm chocolate in them and put the foil and warm chocolate in a flat, horizontal space in the freezer until they solidified. I first crinkled the foil gently so there were creases running in all directions. Menhirs may be found singly as monoliths, or as part of a group of similar stones.
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