Effie SeibergIt's been a long time since I've gotten to do a sculpted food project! I'll update this thread as I go, making elements over the course of the next week.
Step 1: Make lemony rice krispies treats balls in various small sizes
Step 2: Tint modeling chocolate in several colors. Cover the rice krispies treat balls and roll into as close to a sphere as possible.
Step 3: figure out how to not have your hands be so hot that they nearly melt the damn modeling chocolate. Theoretically. I might not actually be achieving this step.
Step 4: texture and paint, with a combination of edible gel and powder colors.
Step 6: Make giant gumpaste eyeball, and two gumpaste wing/fin/ear thingies
Step 7: Bake carrot cake and make spiced buttercream. Stack cakes, put dowels in so it doesn't fall, carve, and frost.
Step 8: Smooth out buttercream, cover inside of mouth with black fondant and cover whole cake in white modeling chocolate. Texture where lips meet the rest of the head/body to be dealt with tomorrow, it's late.
#food
#food
Meet Om-Nom the planet eater! He's carrot cake, spice buttercream, and mostly covered in modeling chocolate. The planets are lemon rice krispies treats covered in modeling chocolate.
Andrew Pontious@effies omg omg omg so amazing
@apontious thank you!
Jess Cho
Stranger Tractor (has moved)@effies Wow! An amazing result, and unpredictable story-telling to boot.
@haggersnash lol thank you!
Paul "Princejvstin" Weimer@effies the final product is amazing
@Princejvstin thank you!
Frank Cote@effies I love you!
Michele@IbuMichele @APBBlue thank you!
Cammie RuiBoss 🇱🇺🏳️🌈👁️🗨️@effies beautifully done! 👏🏼
@CammieRuiBoss thank you!
@effies UR very welcome!
CautionWIP (he/him) 🏳️🌈🇨🇦🕎@effies That’s amazing! I didn’t want him to be lonely so I found his best friend!
mjfgates
Steffani Cameron@effies that is AMAZING.
@snarkysteff thank you!
Katriina (at Bluesky 🦋)@effies
Wow! That's amazing
Wow! That's amazing
@76katriina thank you!
Matt Willemsen@effies I would eat those planets, too!
David W. Jones@effies
That is so cute!
That is so cute!
@dancingtreefrog thank you!
@effies
I've never heard of modeling chocolate. It sounds like fun!
I've never heard of modeling chocolate. It sounds like fun!
Winchell Chung ⚛🚀Amazing cake!
Reminds me a bit of a hokey old scifi story THANG by Martin Gardner (1948)
https://www.projectrho.com/public_html/rocket/apocalypse.php#thang
@nyrath that looks cool!
Ölbaum@effies @seriouslyfab You should have called it the planet (+ Pluto) eater, as a nod to all the manufacturers of solar system toys who decided to just change the text on the packaging after Pluto was demoted.
John Chu
Virginicus@effies A planet-based diet is the key to good health.
Iris Richardson Fine Art 🇩🇪🇺🇸📷@effies So fun and creative
@irisRichardson thank you!
Charlotte Walker
🥧 Punkin' Pie 🎮@effies this is so freaking cool! I love him!
Marc Criley@effies Are you familiar with the 60s animated series Johnny Quest?
This looks hauntingly familiar!
"The Invisible Monster" is one of its episodes that has stuck with me for over 50 years.
https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0837348/mediaviewer/rm198292993/?ref_=ext_shr_lnk
@MarcC I haven't heard of it!
Tiger Spot@effies Right. Until step 6 I thought I knew what was going on here.
@tiger_spot lol!
I'm taking a break for a few days and will get back to it (and updates) at the end of the week! Should be finished by Sat, Sun at the latest.
I'm taking a break for a few days and will get back to it (and updates) at the end of the week! Should be finished by Sat, Sun at the latest.
@effies These are wonderful!
Laura J Mixon@effies Oh my God, Effie—those look amazing!
Risa Wolf@effies that is SO neat!!
@killerpuppytails Thanks! Much more work to go!