Wednesday, July 09, 2008
And the Winner Is…..
And the Winner of the 2008 ChickChat Radio Flag Cake Smackdown is....
ALa! from BlondeSagacity
Keepin' the trophy in the family! (her husband, tesco won last year)
ALa's NOTE: It's actually four cakes: a blue ring and base, then a white and topped off with a red (which came out more pink than red). The cake is then iced with butter cream and covered in fondant (You get the shiny look on the fondant by brushing it lightly with water) and the stars on the blue field consist of 50, homemade, white chocolate lollipops. It is topped with a fondant yellow ribbon in honor of the men that secured our initial independence and in honor of those still volunteering to preserve that independence today...
The contest was won by a hair. Our other two brave souls were:
MISS CARLY: (from And So She Blogs)
CARLY'S NOTE: man oh man... if this had been a contest where it mattered what the cake tasted like... I so would be winning.
Three layer white cake. Each layer was soaked with coconut syrup and spread with lemon curd. It was frosted with a homemade cream cheese frosting. It was decorated with blueberries and strawberries and white chocolate shavings.
It's more of a patriotic red white and blue cake.
And, STEEN! (from steenface )
STEENS NOTE: .... it was my first attempt using fondant. To be fair, the cake was a joint venture with Lindsey Lobsterclaw. It's two layer vanilla cake; we used a 6x2 pan and stacked two cakes on top of each other with a layer of vanilla frosting in between. A heavy dose of vanilla frosting on the outside helped the fondant stick. The red stars are made out of dyed fondant; the blue stars are painted with a pearlescent dye. The ribbon and bow aren't edible of course!
The fondant was a pain in the butt to work with but everything is tasty and I'm pleased with our first attempt!
Many thanks to all three for putting themselves out there, in the name of FLAG CAKE!!! you all ROOOOOL.
And big thanks to Rori Trovato and Lily LaBonge our Smackdown Judges.
Judges (and hopefully winner) interviews can be heard in about a week on XM Radio Take Five, channel 155.
We'll let you know when we have the podcast up of our show where we interview the judges, and hopefully ALa also!!
ALa! from BlondeSagacity
Keepin' the trophy in the family! (her husband, tesco won last year)
ALa's NOTE: It's actually four cakes: a blue ring and base, then a white and topped off with a red (which came out more pink than red). The cake is then iced with butter cream and covered in fondant (You get the shiny look on the fondant by brushing it lightly with water) and the stars on the blue field consist of 50, homemade, white chocolate lollipops. It is topped with a fondant yellow ribbon in honor of the men that secured our initial independence and in honor of those still volunteering to preserve that independence today...
The contest was won by a hair. Our other two brave souls were:
MISS CARLY: (from And So She Blogs)
CARLY'S NOTE: man oh man... if this had been a contest where it mattered what the cake tasted like... I so would be winning.
Three layer white cake. Each layer was soaked with coconut syrup and spread with lemon curd. It was frosted with a homemade cream cheese frosting. It was decorated with blueberries and strawberries and white chocolate shavings.
It's more of a patriotic red white and blue cake.
And, STEEN! (from steenface )
STEENS NOTE: .... it was my first attempt using fondant. To be fair, the cake was a joint venture with Lindsey Lobsterclaw. It's two layer vanilla cake; we used a 6x2 pan and stacked two cakes on top of each other with a layer of vanilla frosting in between. A heavy dose of vanilla frosting on the outside helped the fondant stick. The red stars are made out of dyed fondant; the blue stars are painted with a pearlescent dye. The ribbon and bow aren't edible of course!
The fondant was a pain in the butt to work with but everything is tasty and I'm pleased with our first attempt!Many thanks to all three for putting themselves out there, in the name of FLAG CAKE!!! you all ROOOOOL.
And big thanks to Rori Trovato and Lily LaBonge our Smackdown Judges.
Judges (and hopefully winner) interviews can be heard in about a week on XM Radio Take Five, channel 155.
We'll let you know when we have the podcast up of our show where we interview the judges, and hopefully ALa also!!
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