to dance in the ghost-green glow of the morning

[themeletor]

shit, fondant is a motherfucking sonuvabitch.


'clockwork cookies' decoration test run - fondant only


the carnage on my cutting board (wrapped in plastic*, thank god)


the assembly pan. more carnage.


money shot.

hopefully I can get these under control and get the rest of my shit together in time for them to be a contribution to the bakesale at wiscon.

though I may kill myself before I finish that final batch. this is fucking finicky work.


*(yes, I linked to a youtube of Pete's line in Twin Peaks. every time I say the phrase "wrapped in plastic" it's still what sticks in my head. she's deeaad. wraaapped in plaastic.)


[ETA: hey success! properly bonded and with just a little bit of time to set, the entire faux-clockwork shenanigan can be carefully lifted and moved! this means I will not have to build it all on top of each cookie. \o/!!!]

Comments

[m-defined.livejournal.com]

That is awesome on so many different levels!

[meletor-et-al.livejournal.com]

thank you! it was fun :D

[johanirae.livejournal.com]

...Wow... :O Man, that is gonna be a cookie even I would hesitate to bite into, because I dun want to ruin the lovely art!

[meletor-et-al.livejournal.com]

oooh, but it's really tasty. the fondant is lightly flavored with anise and I'm going to make the cookies from my favorite flake family old-world cutout cookie recipe :D

[theemdash]

Those are amazing.

[meletor-et-al.livejournal.com]

:D thank youuuuu. I'm very excited about them. also your icon, which happens to be (one of) my favorite Gerard Way(s)!

[fadedsecret.livejournal.com]

Ooooh shit how long did that take you, girl!?

[meletor-et-al.livejournal.com]

way too fucking long, but surprisingly, not as long as I thought it was going to take! (especially since it was my first time working with fondant, so there was a lot of trial and error involved.) I made a marshmallow fondant, and from melting the marshmallows through to taking the pictures and cleanup it was about an hour and a half, two hours in all.

[fadedsecret.livejournal.com]

Really? When I was making my cake in baking class, we had to let our fondant dry overnight before painting it. It took SUCH a looong time to do all the fondant work for it. >_

[meletor-et-al.livejournal.com]

hahahaaaa, I should theoretically have let the fondant chill in the fridge overnight to get the appropriate smoothness, so I hear. but I had no trouble with it. then again the only painting bits were the black marks on the clock and, of course, the luster dust (ngl, I get the impression that the luster dust would DEFINITELY have liked me more if I had let the whole deal dry a little).

idk, for this application not drying it (especially overnight) was probably the best. the whole setup is thin and by this morning the gears were getting a little unfavorably crunchy. cakes are a different beast altogether, though.

[mrsquizzical.livejournal.com]

hiya. i'm thinking of friending you, if you don't mind.

and yes, i'm doing it solely on the basis of your comment to maple_mahogany on her 'when brendon met spencer' cos i thought 'YES! exactly! THAT is what i love about her writing!'.

the fact you are friends with katilara also is a point in your favour.

hope that's ok. please feel free to friend back if you so desire.

[meletor-et-al.livejournal.com]

yay! new friend! I am NEVER going to complain about that :D

and yanno, it's funny, I've seen you around the ljsphere and always thought "now there's a cool person!" plus eh, katilara's usually a pretty good judge of character (or coolness, or ... something), so heck yeah! totally gonna friend you back!

[mrsquizzical.livejournal.com]

heee! well cheers!

also, really, really NOT cool. also old. but happy to do lj stuff alongside you!

\o/

[velvetcherri.livejournal.com]

That's so cool XD