This cake was for a movie night potluck featuring the movie Frozen. I decided to play with sugar.
My thought was that I would use sugar to make frozen waves or some kind of frozen water-like decoration and then Olaf, cause he’s the best in that movie.
My first idea was to do a mosaic style of sugar around the sides sort of like when ice freezes on a lake and pushes up on the other pieces, but it didn’t look how I wanted and was sloppy. So I pulled it off and remelted.
I poured the sugar over a foil-wrapped cake pan – the one that I would use to bake the cake in. I was going to try and have it with the points upward, but that didn’t seem to work. then I tried it down and it looked great until the pieces started to break off – it wasn’t strong enough to defy gravity. I ended up using some of the side pieces that broke off and put them on the top.
You can see how the colour of certain pieces changes and gets darker – I had to re-melt some of the sugar, and it got progressively darker with re-melts and not matching the colour quiet right.
the splash I made by pouring the molten sugar over a bowl of ice cubes.
I covered the cake with buttercream – blotches of blue and white, and then smoothed it out to make sort of a sky look.
I made my Olaf with gumpaste. I should have been more careful as |I ended up with a food colouring smudge on his body after doing his arms.
