by Erin
(St. Paul, MN)
Home tree avatar anime Birthday Cake
I did this tree avatar anime 5th birthday Birthday Cake for my best friend's son. At first when he wanted a cake of avatar I thought I was joking, but then I came up with the idea of creating the structure of souls using cereal treats and modeling chocolate. Recently I had been watching the mains and I saw countless cakes do using this method, so I thought I would take a crack at it.
The base of the cake is two 9 X 13 pies piled on top of each other with buttercream icing between. I used the Green buttercream frosting and a hint of decoration grass skirt.I used a wire rod and dowel jewels of the skeleton of the tree. Then printed chocolate cereal treats around the structure to create the trunk and branches. I covered the entire tree in chocolate molding and made scratches in the trunk and branched with modeling tool.
When I put the tree on the basis of pie I used smaller dowel rods at an angle of 45 degrees on different sides of the trunk to stabilize it.I covered these dowel rods in modeling chocolate to look like the big tree roots are allowed. some of the roots to go over the side of the pie and once done scratches in chocolate to resemble the cortex.
For the white "weeping willow" part of the tree used pulled sugar.I pulled sugar in long filaments and then used a flashlight to blow to soften them and fold them into a form of "U". Sprinkling sugar wire in cornstarch (idea of my husband) to remove some viscosity. most pieces measure above branches for those who broke I blocked their branches.
We used the figure avatar action to complete the cake.
I'd like to make this cake again (I already had requests), but I might try this next time instead of pressing chocolate. I used milk chocolate to make my chocolate moulding and I had to keep putting the tree back in the fridge every 15 minutes or so while I was working on it. I would also try to do my strands of sugar slightly thinner, which can be a challenge, for they become so sensitive, but I think it looks a bit strange with thick filaments.
In General, everyone seemed to be impressed and I'm pretty please with how it turned out.
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