{"id":3,"date":"2010-05-16T08:11:49","date_gmt":"2010-05-16T08:11:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wedgieroo.com\/cake_blog\/?p=3"},"modified":"2010-05-16T16:21:01","modified_gmt":"2010-05-16T16:21:01","slug":"om-nom-nom-lost-planet-2-cake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.wedgieroo.com\/cake_blog\/?p=3","title":{"rendered":"Om Nom Nom – Lost Planet 2 Cake"},"content":{"rendered":"
Lost Planet 2 cake!<\/div>\n
Four rounds of devil’s food cake, with layers of chocolate ganache glaze.\u00c2\u00a0 We used whipped ganache to hold the cake together and then carved it to be the right shape.<\/div>\n
\"Carving<\/a>

Carving The Cake<\/p><\/div>\n

After carving, we made grey\/black buttercream to put on the cake so that we could prep it for the fondant.<\/p>\n

\"Buttercreamed<\/a>

Buttercreamed Cake<\/p><\/div>\n

We bought black\/vanilla fondant (2lbs!) to cover the cake with.\u00c2\u00a0 It was fairly challenging, we had to do the body and the tail in two different pieces.<\/p>\n

\"Fondant<\/a>

Fondant Applied!<\/p><\/div>\n

The spikes were made of rice krispie treats, covered in orange flavored melted buttercream.\u00c2\u00a0 It took 2-3 coats of icing to get a smooth finish – not all the pieces turned out smooth (we need to find a better way to let these things set!) but overall they still look pretty good.<\/p>\n

\"Orange<\/a>

Orange Spikes<\/p><\/div>\n

After the spikes, we made the legs, also out of rice krispie.\u00c2\u00a0 We covered those with buttercream and fondant, and then used rounds of marshmallow covered with the orange buttercream.\u00c2\u00a0 Everything was attached with toothpicks and skewers after that.<\/p>\n

\"The<\/a>

The Final Product<\/p><\/div>\n

The surface was covered with white buttercream, which we brushed a little pearl dust onto to give a snow-like effect.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Lost Planet 2 cake! Four rounds of devil’s food cake, with layers of chocolate ganache glaze.\u00c2\u00a0 We used whipped ganache to hold the cake together and then carved it to be the right shape. After carving, we made grey\/black buttercream to put on the cake so that we could prep it for the fondant. We […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-video-game-cakes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.wedgieroo.com\/cake_blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.wedgieroo.com\/cake_blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.wedgieroo.com\/cake_blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.wedgieroo.com\/cake_blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.wedgieroo.com\/cake_blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.wedgieroo.com\/cake_blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.wedgieroo.com\/cake_blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.wedgieroo.com\/cake_blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.wedgieroo.com\/cake_blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}