After 3 weeks off from baking, I'm back in the game, friends! I've honestly been a bit burned out on cakes lately, so this cake was great for my self-esteem. Here's why: I dropped off the cake and met one person who told me where to put it down. She complimented me on the cake and then asked for a business card. When I came back from the car, cards in hand, there were like 10 people standing around my cake...just, staring! It was very rewarding, especially when they all were just reaching out for business cards. That totally made my day!
So let me tell you a little bit about this cake. I made the sandwich and the bag of doritos from one chocolate 9x13 sheet cake. I cut two foot long strips for the top bun and bottom bun, split each of those to get some filling in there, carved the edges to make it look like a bun, and covered them with ivory fondant, which I then shaped and painted to make it look a little more like the real thing.
The middle of the sandwich contains gumpaste and fondant of assorted colors, making it look like a ham and turkey sandwich with lettuce, tomatoes, black olives, and onions.
I placed the cake on top of an actual Quizno's sandwich wrapper, so it looks like you just opened up this sammie and are about to dig in!
For the bag of chips, I carved a piece of chocolate cake to look like a small, crumpled, and open bag of doritos. I had a bag of chips in front of me to help. I actually crumpled up the bag a little so I could really see what I needed to do. Now, for the actual chips, I had a dorito "model" in front of me. An actual dorito is yellow with bright reddish-orange powder on it. Well, I had yellow petal dust and red fondant, so I switched things up.
I cut triangles out of the fondant, poked a bunch of bumps onto the underside, and laid them in different ways on crumpled paper towels. When they were dry, I dusted them with yellow petal dust. The overall effect was very nice and life-like, if I do say so myself.
So what do you think? Would you totally eat this or what?
With love, Ev