Just curious if anyone who has done a 3D bust cake, ex. spiderman, superman, batman, soldier- has tried using a rectangle shape and carving out a chest rather than using a round cake like the tutorial suggests. I'm thinking the rectangle may give a more realistic shape to the bust. Hmmmm any suggestions?? TIA I'll be doing spidey for my nephew this weekend and don't really know if I should bother trying a new shape.
Did Batman this weekend with the rounds as the tutorial suggested and it worked fine. I did end up pulling the quartered 8" round pieces our futher and put more cake between the quaters and the main body. That was just because the styro head I used was so large--I needed the shoulders to look more realistic. As long as you ice well enough, it should look pretty good. I think using a rectangular cake would require a lot more carving than would be necessary--I think the rounds do it just fine.
Thanks missyek! BTW your Batman looks amazing. Do you recall how much buttercream you really ended up using??? TIA
I have a couple Power Ranger busts, all in cake (no styrofoam) and I used a combo of round and then quarter rounds for shoulders.
Kitagrl, the red power ranger looks great. Did you use a ball pan for the head?? Unfortunately I don't have one. Can you suggest an alternative?? TIA
Kitagrl, the red power ranger looks great. Did you use a ball pan for the head?? Unfortunately I don't have one. Can you suggest an alternative?? TIA
Yes...the ball pans aren't expensive though, you can get them at craft stores and sometimes even Walmart for like ten bucks. I guess you could carve your own out of an 8" layer cake.....
Thanks missyek! BTW your Batman looks amazing. Do you recall how much buttercream you really ended up using??? TIA
Not as much as I thought I would! I made a ton of grey icing and used less than half. I use the Wilton class BC icing recipe which is all shortening, but I use hi-ratio instead of crisco. All my friends and family love it, but I now a lot of people don't care for using an all shortening recipe.
AI have had success twice (Spider-Man and iron man) using a loaf pan and bundt pan (and the styrofoam head. Let the cake rise in the loaf pan to a large mound. Cut in two and there are bulging shoulders and arms. The bunt pan shape gives a good spot for the foam neck in the center and the curve makes a good chest shape slice just a little of and use the sliced cake in arm pits. Cut craft foam for the spider (for spider man). For iron man I put a touch light in the chest. I also frosted the iron man mask onto the foam head.
AHere are my pics of this weekend's cakes. 3d bust of Superman and Flash[IMG]http://cakecentral.com/content/type/61/id/3016703/width/200/height/400[/IMG]
AAs mentioned the bunt pan was used below the fondant covered foam head. This time I did use a 9x13 rectangle too to give more height. And clipped the corners to give it better shape. Loaf pan cake cut in half is the arm
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