April 29, 2012

Movita Beaucoup’s Bake My Cake 2012

Bonus Sunday post! Movita Beaucoup is running a contest to see who can bake her the most awesome birthday cake. I wanted to try my hand, because Movita is extremely awesome and I’m glad that she’s getting lots of birthday cakes, albeit virtual ones. Here is my entry, for your perusal. Oh, and since it’s a competition, you can also vote for me! I don’t have my hopes up at all, because I know that the other cakes will be superb, but if you like mine, you can let Movita(and me!) know by voting here (click to go to the voting page).

I’ve decided to put all the photos in a gallery, from start to finish – from humble beginnings etc… You can see my rock candy experiment in the background of one of them, too – that’s a work in progress, for a later post.

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Here is the story I submitted with the cake, too:

On the outside, the cake is pretty, if a bit edgy - it’s black and white, it’s got little stars on, it looks every so slightly like a Tim Burton forest. Still, it’s three tiers of pure class. On the inside, it’s full of chocolate and booze. I am not making any direct comparisons, but if someone were to describe me as classy on the outside and full of chocolate and booze on the inside, I’d be pretty happy about it.

It’s a Guinness and chocolate sponge, filled with Guinness vanilla frosting and finished with a plain vanilla buttercream – the piping work is all buttercream, too, I much prefer it to royal icing. I decorated most of the cake with a burst piping bag, desparately trying to cover up the hole with my palm as black icing oozed down my arm.

Oh and it has a surprise Movita on the top! She is drawn right on there with an icing pen.

Here are the two photos I submitted to Movita; if she hadn’t limited it to two photos she’d probably have got almost all of the gallery above. She’s a sensible lady.

I really enjoyed making this cake, and it looks almost like it did in my brain! Not as polished, perhaps, but given the piping bag incident I feel like that’s excusable. I really need a new piping bag.

I’m so pleased that Movita liked my cake enough to include it in the competition, and that in itself is a kind of winning. Plus she describes me as cool which actually made me have to go for a lie down. However, in truth, I would also like to win the competition, and every single vote counts. Here is the link again, click here to vote. The group that my cake is in is only taking votes today so it’d be great if you went ahead and clicked the button RIGHT NOW not that I’m tense about it.

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This entry was posted on Sunday, April 29th, 2012 at 1:30 PM and tagged with Bake My Cake 2012, birthday cake, competition, Movita Beaucoup and posted in Cake. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed.

12 Responses to “Movita Beaucoup’s Bake My Cake 2012”

paul
April 29th, 2012 at 2:45 PM

I reckon I love your cake. Three balanced tiers with Movita as the crowning glory, brilliant. Glad we’re in different groups LOL

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- Rock Salt
  April 30th, 2012 at 1:38 PM
  
  Paul, yours is so great – and all the detailed posts about its planning and construction are great to read. The feeling is mutual, glad I didn’t have to go head to head with you!
  
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bitsandbreadcrumbs
April 29th, 2012 at 5:08 PM

Great looking cake with “Movita” on top, Carol Ann!

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- Rock Salt
  April 30th, 2012 at 1:37 PM
  
  Thanks Betsy, that literally is the crowning glory.
  
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ChgoJohn
April 29th, 2012 at 5:27 PM

I would love to receive a cake like this. Good job!

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- Rock Salt
  April 30th, 2012 at 1:36 PM
  
  Thanks John – I think the wedding monopoly on tiered cakes must end, they are so special that everyone should receive one at least once!
  
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ninabaydoun
April 29th, 2012 at 7:02 PM

Good luck Carol Ann. I voted for you

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- Rock Salt
  April 30th, 2012 at 1:36 PM
  
  Thanks to you, and everyone else, I got through to the final! I really appreciate it Nina, you are so kind x
  
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  - ninabaydoun
    April 30th, 2012 at 1:39 PM
    
    welcome dear… Well deserved.:) Good luck
Just A Smidgen
April 30th, 2012 at 1:18 AM

I saw your cake on her website.. way to go, this looks just like Movita herself!

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- Rock Salt
  April 30th, 2012 at 1:35 PM
  
  Thanks Smidge! I did have a huge grin on my face after I’d drawn the wee Movita, I was REALLY pleased with it.
  
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wendy@chezchloe
May 1st, 2012 at 12:06 PM

Killer cake by the way… Congrats on the first round!

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