Making a 3D Cake At Home

!±8± Making a 3D Cake At Home

Making a 3D cake at home can be as simple or complex as you like. For my daughter's birthday, she wanted a dinosaur cake, and I didn't think the simple pan cake with a picture or figurines would do. I researched different cake styles, pans, ideas and came up with building my own cake.

Using simple box cake mix, with a few tweaks to make it stand up to a lot of icing and a little imagination, I was able to come up with a real hit for her birthday celebration. It all comes down to cutting basic round cake layers and I make a rectangle pan cake and have found that the small egg shaped pan works very well to add some shaping to the cake for legs, facial features etc. A crumb coat layer is essential in building the cake and using the icing to stick the layers together.

I actually get something to look at for the shape like a toy or picture for inspiration and draw out a sketch of how I am going to use the cut pieces and put them together on my cake board. I then actually put the pieces together and move them around until I get exactly the scale and shape that I want.

When that is done, glue them together with the icing and prepare to frost, which is the most time consuming aspect. Using a basic butter cream frosting recipe, frosting bag and basic tips (star tip and round tip), color gels for coloring and a lot of patience you can bring your shape to life. There are many resources online for inspiration and help.

Making a 3D Cake At Home

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Plum Woven Heaven

!±8± Plum Woven Heaven

Listen as curator Tina Oldknow, describes the object "Woven Heaven, Tangled Earth" by artist Susan Plum. For Susan Plum, glass is a metaphor for light. She works with it as a way, she says, to "concretize the invisible." Plum prefers borosilicate glass for its high silica content and its strength. Using three-millimeter Pyrex rods, she weaves her pieces using a small torch. This sculpture was inspired by Plum's research into ancient Mesoamerican cosmology. Her woven work was originally inspired by the Mayan goddess Ixchel, the first weaver of the Americas. She later learned that the Maya and the Aztec used the weaver's loom as a metaphor for the universe. This loom of the universe was believed to be constructed of filaments of light, out of which the heavens and earth were woven. The light strands become entangled around the earth, and it is the job of the shaman to untangle this "discord." "Thus," Plum says, "the act of weaving symbolically rebuilds and re-energizes the world."

Plum Woven Heaven

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