A Farewell to Friends

So I am super proud of this cake. It's for a friend and manager at Outback whose last day was today. It was pretty sad her leaving and definitely a few tears were shed... but I got to play with modeling chocolate and it is totally magical! I don't know if I will ever go back to fondant because the chocolate did everything I wanted it to and was SO easy to manipulate.

So the brown parts were a mix of semi-sweet and milk chocolate and the colored parts are white chocolate colored with gel colors. Just a word of advice if you're going to color make sure you use powder color or gels because any water you add to the chocolate will cause it to seize up and crumble. Now on to pics! It's a boomerang because we work at Outback and it's all Australian themed and stuff......


Carved cake


COLORS!





I used the tips to add some dimension to the ribbon like thing that had the message on it. And piping gel colored green for the letters.


Finally put together and on a nice cake board and everything... I also got rid of the white dots that are on the message ribbon.... they really show up strong in this picture :/

Pretty happy with this one. And a few people expressed interest in making a cake for them in the upcoming months so we will see how that goes. I may have 4 or 5 people lined up for the next few months.... could be pretty exciting times in 2011.