Last month when I made the Sheeps cake, for the Threadless cake contest thing, after I announced that I won, The cake photos for the top five Threadless cakes found their way onto the TV. Fuse TV to be exact, by way of "The Sauce", one of their daily programs where the hosts talk about music, gaming, entertainment and fun stuff like that between music videos.

I'd been in contact with one of the people that works for the station, *ahem*awavewithwords *ahem* Who was so kind to even mention my cake to the people in charge of putting stuff on the air in the first place. Anywho, afterwards she suggested that maybe I could make a cake for "The Sauce" and I thought that sounded like a great idea.

So after weeks of planning, a week of sculpting little fondant thinggamajiggers, an weekend of hoping the heat would go away long enough to be able to actually make the cake (heat and fondant do not go together very well) and one solid day of assemblage, I would like to present-


My Thank you cake for The Sauce!




Its a single layer white chocolate and coconut cake with a thin layer of vanilla buttercream under the fondant. I'd actually baked two layers, but we decided that in shipping they might shake loose, and for a more stable cake, we just made it a single layer.


I used the Sauce TV logo from their website as inspiration-



Along with the logo- If you look closely, you'll see an Ipod, Game controller, and under the logo there is a tennis shoe. I tried to mimic the sort of outer space feel with the dark blue on the cake, and made a shimmery swirl to mimic the kind of smoky haze. Then there are the dots, because I don't have the patience to cut out tiny little asterisks. I added a cell phone and on the back there is a little record I also added the Fuse logo to the front, 'cause I had a little bit of extra space in the fron. I had originally made a big speaker to put on there, that looks like the big speaker in the background of the cake, but I didn't have enough room for it in the back so I just left it off.

Ignore the yellow cutting board that I took the photos on, and ignore the tools and tubs in the background of a couple of those photos. I took them in my kitchen, and I tried to correct the florescent light, but its 3am, so deal with it. *smile*

One of the things about this cake is that it had to be made pretty compact so it can be sent across the country to New York.

In a few minutes I'll be packing it up, and putting it on icepack, and around 8am it will start its way through the shipping process. It should arrive at the station by the next morning, and I hope my packing job will allow it to stay in one piece. If it doesn't I these are the only surviving photos of it. I took them to prove that at one time, it looked pretty darn good, or at least as good as I could get it.

So there you go. I made another cake. Probably the last one until the next person asks me to make one, or until my birthday in September, whichever comes first.

Now, if you'll excuse me, I have to go to bed for a few hours and then wake up to make some pies for Pie week! woo!

-A.