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The cake under all that icing is my standard Wellesley Fudge Cake, easy to make and easy to work with. This one didn't rise much, because I hadn't read up on the need to work FAST with Rumford baking powder. It was baked in a 13 x 9 pan, cut in half crosswise, and each half torted at a slight angle so that I could spin the top pieces around and give the ends more height than the center. Notice, though, that I forgot to shape the "alligator head" of the ship at this point, mostly because the board wasn't really long enough to accommodate it. Filling: rather random amounts of semisweet chocolate, butter, and powdered sugar. It turned out fudge-like. Icing: buttercream flavored with cocoa (too much, as it turned out) and tinted with black icing color to a passable gunmetal gray.