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Maria_Campos
The Shire
Jan 16 2008, 2:50pm
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The Witch King Cake
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This cake was so much fun to do, if I get another chance to make it again I will make a few changes to make the crown more exact, but my Husband was pleased and all the guess were impressed and disappointed because they thought it was the real thing and could get a chance to try it on and run around the neighborhood! My next attempt will be Sauron! Can't wait
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orcbane
Gondor
Jan 16 2008, 3:36pm
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Thats a cake ? !!!! A cake cake ? !!! Incredible
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Alls I can say is be careful no one tries to take a bite out of your Weta statues, if you have any. By miscake.
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Anarrima
The Shire
Jan 16 2008, 4:25pm
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I occasionally watch those cake decorating shows on the food network, and I'm always so impressed with what people can make out of sugar :) Great job!
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labingi_maura
Rivendell
Jan 16 2008, 4:34pm
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That is amazing! Could you take some pictures from the side and back too!? I'd love to see more of this "portrait cake"! Very well done, you have a gift for cake-sculpting!
-ML
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"I am in fact a hobbit in all but size." - J.R.R.Tolkien
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Maria_Campos
The Shire
Jan 16 2008, 4:35pm
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I am using the word Miscake from now on, had me laughing!!!!
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labingi_maura
Rivendell
Jan 16 2008, 5:50pm
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Great, thanks for posting the extra views.
If I may ask, how do you achieve black icing? I don't think I've ever seen black icing! And the silver looks metallic, is it icing too? Is the whole thing edible, or just parts of it? Again, very well done. (And, if you don't want to give away your secrets, no hard feelings; very understandable!)
-ML
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"I am in fact a hobbit in all but size." - J.R.R.Tolkien
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Maria_Campos
The Shire
Jan 16 2008, 6:13pm
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I used black paste food coloring from Wilton to get the black color of the cloak, also silver food color and brass luster dust and more black paste food coloring for the mask, the metallic food coloring are edilble and can be found at any cake decorating supply store. The mask is made out of gumpaste and attached with royal icing on a dummy head that was covered with fondant, I cut out the face part of the foam head about 3" in so when you look from the side of the cake it looks empty, and for texture I used royal icing, the cloak is fondant or sugar paste which I dyed black again withthe paste (lots of jars of black paste food coloring, my fingers are still black!). The head sits on a 2 10' cakes and 1 8" cake which I carved out to be the chest and shoulders. Everything is edible except the styrofoam head.
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Idril Celebrindal
Tol Eressea
Jan 16 2008, 6:18pm
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That's one fantastic cake!
BTW, welcome to TORN!
With caffeine, all things are possible.
The pity of Bilbo will screw up the fate of many.
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Altariel_of_Lothlorien
The Shire
Jan 16 2008, 6:19pm
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Evil AND delicious! What kind of cake is under that malefic black icing?
Remember me? I'm the one who likes Discworld and obsesses over costumes.
Mah arts
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labingi_maura
Rivendell
Jan 16 2008, 6:55pm
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Thanks for sharing the description of how you did it! Its just a wonderful piece, really marvelous! Who would have thought the Witch King could be such a delicious dish?!
-ML
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"I am in fact a hobbit in all but size." - J.R.R.Tolkien
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Maria_Campos
The Shire
Jan 16 2008, 7:06pm
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This was a strawberry cake with mocha buttercream, yummy! No one wanted to cut it , so finally we had to try to cut the head of to save for a souvenior before, one person wanted to see if we could detach the crown from the head to try on!
I made a purse cake for my daughter and it sat there for 3 days until I finally convinced her to cut it! So silly!
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Starling
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Jan 18 2008, 5:22am
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That is so cool. Did the first person to cut it shove the knife through the front and say, "I am no man" ? :D
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orcbane
Gondor
Jan 18 2008, 2:08pm
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LOL  That was good, Starling
An Ent juggling spikey things ?
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merklynn
Lorien
Jan 19 2008, 12:59am
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That is one awesome cake! I think you did an incredible job. Wish you were available to bake for my birthday!
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Maria_Campos
The Shire
Jan 19 2008, 2:34pm
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There is an article about my cake on Weta Holics
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This is too cool I never thought I would have gotten this kind of response.
Actually I thought I was going to get blasted for not getting the crown exactly like the original! Which I intend to attempt again for the decorated cake contest this years.
http://www.wetanz.com/holics/
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Peredhil lover
Valinor
Jan 19 2008, 3:03pm
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Have never seen something like this before - I am very impressed!
Btw, I completely agree with your daughter. I'm another one of these silly people who think it's a shame to destroy such a piece of art 
I do not suffer from LotR obsession - I enjoy every minute of it.
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namadriel
Lorien
Jan 19 2008, 8:21pm
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I have no artistic talent whatsoever, so I love it when others can do something like that! It's absolutely wonderful!
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Shadowfaxfan
Rivendell
Jan 20 2008, 11:47am
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You deserve it, the cake is definitely an exceptional work of art!
A myth is far truer than a history, for a history only gives a story of the shadows, whereas a myth gives a story of the substances that cast the shadows.~Annie Besant
Riding a horse is not a gentle hobby, to be picked up and laid down like a game of solitaire. It is a grand passion. It seizes a person whole, and once it has done so, he will have to accept that his life will be radically changed. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
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One Ringer
Tol Eressea
Jan 31 2008, 10:04pm
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I want you making the cake for my birthday! Great job!
"Death is just another pathway . . . one which we all must take."
-Gandalf from "The Return of the King"
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