Steve's Cactus
My attempt to make a cactus cake for my brother. The cactus is a pound cake and the pot is a white cake. All the icing is BC and the needles are royal icing. The little worms were a last minute thought made from rolled BC. Everyone thought it was too cute to eat and to this day it sits in a real pot on my mother's desk at work. I made it in August of 2005!
Okay, the keeping it for over a year is a little strange, but I can understand why - it is incredibly cute! I love to see original looking cakes - and to be corny - this one takes the cake :)
hello beutiful but how do you do the cactus (green part) look nice
Really cute and well executed!!! It looks so real!
You guys are all sooooo sweet. The green part wasn't too bad. I started not exactly at the top of the cake. I left sort of a circle at the top, and started straight lines down. Well, as straight as I could do it by eye. Seeing how I've only done this cake decorating thing for just over a year - in my kitchen only - this cake took me 5 hours to decorate. There are between 500 and 600 needles on it that had to be placed one at a time. Thank you for your kind words.
That is so amazing looks so real. Great job! I wouldn't mind knowing what tip you used and the how to's to make this cake?
Thank you so much. I believe the cactus itself is the stand-up pumpkin cake pan. And the tip I used for the green part was #21. The pot was the hard part - trying to keep it together. It doesn't travel well so I put it together where the party was. When my mom put it in her office everyone took a second look and alot of people wanted to know if it was a real cactus. One even wanted to know what species of cactus it was. I thought it was okay, but I'm hard on myself. Thanks again for the kind wo...
Okay, the keeping it for over a year is a little strange, but I can understand why - it is incredibly cute! I love to see original looking cakes - and to be corny - this one takes the cake :)
hello beutiful but how do you do the cactus (green part) look nice
Really cute and well executed!!! It looks so real!
You guys are all sooooo sweet. The green part wasn't too bad. I started not exactly at the top of the cake. I left sort of a circle at the top, and started straight lines down. Well, as straight as I could do it by eye. Seeing how I've only done this cake decorating thing for just over a year - in my kitchen only - this cake took me 5 hours to decorate. There are between 500 and 600 needles on it that had to be placed one at a time. Thank you for your kind words.
That is so amazing looks so real. Great job! I wouldn't mind knowing what tip you used and the how to's to make this cake?
Thank you so much. I believe the cactus itself is the stand-up pumpkin cake pan. And the tip I used for the green part was #21. The pot was the hard part - trying to keep it together. It doesn't travel well so I put it together where the party was. When my mom put it in her office everyone took a second look and alot of people wanted to know if it was a real cactus. One even wanted to know what species of cactus it was. I thought it was okay, but I'm hard on myself. Thanks again for the kind wo...
Nice cake I love your grass :lol:
I ment neddles