I'm on Cake Vacation!!!!

That's it! I stressed over this cake all last week and boy, am I glad it's done!

Donna Wolf is a friend of mine and she is a really big coordinator for her Relay For Life team. They had a benefit on Sat. May 17th called "Shooting for a Cure" with some of the UND Sioux hockey players (Jean-Philippe Lamoureux, Ryan Duncan, and ol' school boys - Jeff and Jay Panzer) who came to DL to help with fundraising by taking pics with fans and signing autographs. Well, Donna said she was expecting a lot of people and after seeing Ali's Birthday cake, she thought it'd be cool if I could make a UND cake. I thought it would be cool too...little did I know it would end up being the largest, most stressful, most procrastinated cake I've done yet!?!?!

My first thought was to do a jersey cake. And I had planned on doing the newer logo with the "realistic" Sioux Indian face. But then I actually looked at my jersey....and quickly changed my mind! Much to detailed to use for my first attempt with melting candy. So I opted to make the ol' school logo they used in the late 1990's, and which I have always liked better than any of them.

I had to bake the cakes on Thursday, and frost them on Friday. I made three 11" x 13" cakes, using 2 cake mixes per pan. The board that I have the cake on is 30" wide by 40" long. It was huge! All I had done by Friday night was it cut to shape and it's base coat of frosting on! I was freaking out, that I wasn't gonna be able to do it?!

Donna wanted it at the Arcade (where they had the event) by 3pm-ish. Only I didn't get it done until Saturday at 4pm. And the benefit started ate 5pm!! I'll spare you the stressful details, but I will tell you that there were a few things that did NOT go as planned. And Saturday morning I was beginning to wonder what I had gotten myself into?!?!

But I'm awesome, as always! And was able to pull it off. It turned out fairly nice. Obviously, there were flaws that I could see, but for an amature cake...I don't think it's too bad!?! Everyone thought it was awesome and it tasted delicious...or at least that's what the told me!


I made a reversed stencil of the logo, covered it with wax paper and used melting chocolates to do the outlines.

Same thing here with the Name Logo

Now for the white candy!

This part was kinda fun! I might start making my own candies!
The bad part was that I discovered on Sat. morning that you can't add coloring to melting candy because then it turns from candy into a candy "glob"....dun...dun...dun...dunnnnn!

So this is the finished product. I ended up using black piping gel for the logos which complicated things to no end! But it worked!

I used colored the frosting to be black and green and piped it on.

Close up of the logos

The black jersey is an old one. It's my dad-in-law's. I used this for the pattern and just inverted the colors. The newer white jersey is mine. Derek got it for me for christmas in 2006 and had the 2006 team sign it. It was too small for me then...but now it fits me perfectly since I've lost a bunch of weight!

Needless to say, after I delivered this cake I went to the Tavern and had myself a drink! I'm not making any more cakes until I have a place of my own to bake, decorate, store, and wash all the dishes!