scudsucker
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Probably need suggestions from @emam on this, although it is going to to be a VERY amateur effort.
My 4 year old son has chosen a theme for my wife's upcoming birthday (which, in a 4 year old's mind absolutely MUST include cake).
The theme is "Coronaraptor" - a portmanteau of current events and his favourite dinosaur type.
My plan is to get him to draw what he imagines as a Coronaraptor, then make a very flat carrot cake, gingerbread, or choc brownies, and then ice it in white. I will draw the outlines, copying my sons drawing, using an icing bag and some black icing colouring we happen to have.
I will then make dilute food colouring/icing sugar mixes of a few colours and the kids can "colour in" my copy of his work of art.
Aside from managing the artists, the biggest problem is making an all-white, very flat, cake covered with iceing that can stand getting a little damp - the additional painting. I would guess adding egg white to the initial icing would work, so it has a slightly "slick" surface, and the wet coloured icing painted on may not sink in much before drying. The ideal is minimal "spread" of color.
The target market is both grans who will unconditionally love his effort no matter how bad, but I also need to instill some semi-professional advice.
My 4 year old son has chosen a theme for my wife's upcoming birthday (which, in a 4 year old's mind absolutely MUST include cake).
The theme is "Coronaraptor" - a portmanteau of current events and his favourite dinosaur type.
My plan is to get him to draw what he imagines as a Coronaraptor, then make a very flat carrot cake, gingerbread, or choc brownies, and then ice it in white. I will draw the outlines, copying my sons drawing, using an icing bag and some black icing colouring we happen to have.
I will then make dilute food colouring/icing sugar mixes of a few colours and the kids can "colour in" my copy of his work of art.
Aside from managing the artists, the biggest problem is making an all-white, very flat, cake covered with iceing that can stand getting a little damp - the additional painting. I would guess adding egg white to the initial icing would work, so it has a slightly "slick" surface, and the wet coloured icing painted on may not sink in much before drying. The ideal is minimal "spread" of color.
The target market is both grans who will unconditionally love his effort no matter how bad, but I also need to instill some semi-professional advice.
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