Огромная благодарность Molly Sullivan за Мастер-класс
So, I started by figuring out the size of the helmet and the body. I made the head out of 8" rounds, and the body out of 2 12x16" cake--so it was about 12" shoulder to shoulder. I planned on making the star out of RKT and the hands modeling chocolate (I ended up using MC for the star.) I baked the cakes (a deeelish almond pound cake), made ganache, spiked with amaretto (had to make 2 more LARGE batches!), a few batches of MC and black and white batches of MMF. I ganached my layers (I divided the helmet into 2 'tiers', and the body was my third tier, doweled with bubble tea straws), and started carving-first the head, then the body. I put them together and had to change the angle of the head several times, and re-carve it, and the body... Eventually it looked right, so I coated it with an almond Swiss meringue buttercream, because, yum!...then realized it wasn't right, removed head, re-carved, re-iced, and put one dowel through the center of the whole thing.
Next came fondant. I covered the helmet with the black fondant I'd made, and it DID NOT work! To the cake store for some commercial fondant, and I was back in business. I then colored white fondant and MC to a greenish-gray for the body and hands. I used my misbehaving black fondant to cover the foam core boards for the backdrop and cake board.
Next I worked on the star. I made a rough template of the hands and star to make sure they were the appropriate size in relation to the body. First, I made it out of RKT. Meh, didn't like it so much, which is just as well because my kids stole it from the fridge and started eating it. Then I made it from MC covered in fondant. I tried several ways to texture it, eventually using sugar pearls (white--the colored ones showed through the fondant. SMH). Next, I colored the star using petal dusts, (my first time using them) but in the end, it wasn't bold enough. So I made a third star (same way) and used a mishmash of airbrush and gel colors, various lusters and some powdered colors to get it just right. Also, I left a hole in the MC part to put a small LED light in it (still covered by fondant.)
Up next, finishing the helmet/body. I used fondant and MC to add all the details, as well as one wire for the 'mic'. Then came the coloring. Now, I'm no whiz with the airbrush, but fortunately there is a back to this cake
I darkened the body with a black/green mix to get it to blend better with the helmet and add shadows. I added the stars to the helmet with white gel color and white powdered color. Then highlighted all the silvery/white parts with lusters and airbrush colors.
Then, the hands. I was so stinkin' nervous about them! I did at least 3 sets of them. I mainly airbrushed them (another lesson learned--MC does not like to be airbrushed), and did some highlighting too.
Next was adding the starfish reflection to the helmet. I tried using petal dust and gel colors, but the black fondant pretty much just sucked the color up. Last resort was rolling out a super thin piece of gum paste, attaching it to the helmet, and coloring it. Which actually worked out perfectly!
LASTLY, was decorating the backdrop--painting the stars and moon. I LOVED this! Again, I just used white powdered color and white gel color. It was so easy and I was was super pleased.
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