David's birthday cake - a photo on Flickriver

            Tuesday is hubby's birthday.  Today we had the family over for lunch and cake.
We have a joke in the family that David is the king, and he often likes to quote Mel Brooks "It's good to be the King" I thought it would be a fun idea to make him a crown cake.
Inspired by Planet Cake and also Torki's masterpiece from the Sydney Easter Show.
It's an 8 inch fruit cake with a 9 inch white coconut mud on top, carved to shape, and covered in purple fondant.  I must have used 3/4 of a tub of paste to get that colour!  It was quite difficult to work with.  The crown details were "challenging" the ball on top is styrene, covered in fondant, the crosses and fleur de lys are just fondant, and painted gold, as is the bottom edge.  The ermine border is also just some white fondant, textured and coloured with a bit of black  food colour.  All the coloured jewels are just bought inedible ones, the pearls and silver balls are cachous.
Phew!  If you read all this you have a better concentration span than I do :)
It took me waaaaaaaay longer than I expected and I won't be putting it on my website because no one would be willing to pay for it ;)
   

Taken on: January 10, 2010

Tags:

crown

king

mudcake

fruitcake

jewels

birthday

carved « less

Camera: Nikon D300S, f/5.0, 1/60 sec, 80mm (=120mm), ISO 200 (more info) (hide info)

Camera:	Nikon D300S
Aperture:	f/5.0
Exposure Time:	0.017 sec (1/60)
Focal Length:	80mm (35mm equivalent: 120mm)
ISO:	200
Exposure Bias:	0 EV
Flash:	On, Return not detected
Exposure Program:	Program AE
Exposure Mode:	Auto
Metering Mode:	Multi-segment
White Balance:	Auto
Color Space:	sRGB
Software:	QuickTime 7.6.3
Show full info

Stats: 13,262 views / 61 comments

close tools panel

Badge creator

Use Flickriver Badge Creator to create a badge linking to your photos, your group or any other Flickriver view.

You can place your badge on your Flickr profile, Blog or Website.

Add to your iGoogle or Netvibes page

Flickriver widget for iGoogle or Netvibes can display almost any Flickriver view - most interesting today, by user, by group, by tag etc. Once added to your personalized homepage, just edit widget settings to select your desired view.

Clickr on one of the buttons below to install:

Embed on your Web site

To embed this view, Copy and Paste the following HTML code:

Black background (preview):

White background (preview):

Firefox and Chrome addons

Adds a 'Flickriver' button to your browser. While viewing any Flickr photos page, click on this button to open the same view on Flickriver.

Install in Firefox
Install in Chrome

Search plugin

Add 'Search on Flickriver' to your browser's search box. Works with Firefox and Internet Explorer. Install search plugin

"View on Flickriver" Greasemonkey script

A Greasemonkey script that adds Flickriver links to various Flickr photo pages - user photos, favorites, pools etc, allowing to quickly open the corresponding Flickriver view.

Also, allows quickly viewing any Flickr photo on black background in large size.

Install "View on Flickriver" script

Bookmarklet

While viewing any Flickr photos page, click on the bookmarklet to open the same view on Flickriver.

To install: drag and drop the following link to your Bookmarks toolbar.
IE users - add the link to your Favorites under the Links folder