HOSR 2014

I created the HOSR logo based off of the Thomas Eakins "Pair-Oared Shell" painting on a 18x26" chocolate cake.  I added both the Fairmount Rowing Association and Wharton Crew logos on the cake.

Beef and Brew 2014

Cake for the Wharton Crew Team annual Beef and Brew party themed "Classic Hollywood" with red and gold decorations.

Navy Day 2014

For the Navy Day regatta, I made the ram logo from the victory mug onto a large chocolate cake with buttercream frosting. 

Pain in the neck

To celebrate Tom T's recovery from his neck injury, I made him a cupcake that says "No more pain in the neck Tom".  He had previously told me that he likes every cake except coconut -- so I played a prank on him and shaved white chocolate on the top but told him it was coconut!

Fish in the boat cake

Apparently a fish (claimed to be IDed as a shad) jumped into Tom's single one day while he was out on the water.  After providing evidence of a fish smudge and scale on the deck of the shell, I made a cake to commemorate the event.

The boat was made of chocolate melted onto parchment paper and shaped to resemble a shell.  The oars were pretzel rods with white chocolate melted to make the blades (blue food coloring was added to the lower half of the blade before piping it onto parchment paper).  The fish were Sweedish fish and the bow-ball was a white pearl candy. 

Quaker City 2014

       

For the Quaker City Regatta that is hosted annually by the Fairmount Rowing Association I made 2 cakes with the Quaker City logo on top.  When you sliced the cakes open, the cross section had an "F" (for Fairmount) made of out chocolate and vanilla cakes.  Here's how it was made:

The cake was made with 4 layers, each of which was composed of 3 concentric circles of chocolate and vanilla cake.  For each layer I made 2 cakes (1 chocolate & 1 vanilla), cut out a donut of appropriate size, and then switched the donut shaped piece so that the outside and inside circles were the same flavor and the donut was the opposite flavor. 

                           Layer 1                                    Layer 2                                 Layer 4
        
 Layers 1 & 3 had the same pattern (outer rim, thin donut, inner circle) and layers 2 & 4 had the same pattern (outer rim, thick donut, small inner circle).  I used smaller cake pans and water glasses to trace the circles.

For the 13” pan I used, it is necessary to cut the outer and donut pieces at least into half to transfer them, but just put a bit of frosting in between and they will hold together fine.  Also put a thin layer of frosting at all of the seams to help bind them together.  A thin layer of frosting between the cake layers also helped bind it together.

The chocolate frosting was a chocolate sour cream frosting and the white frosting was a white chocolate cream cheese frosting.  The Q was again traced using a smaller cake pan and then filled in using a small spatula, the writing and outside decorations on the cake was piped on.

 Surprise!

Washer Cake

Tom kept dropping and loosing washers when he was fixing the rigging on the Keiffer 4+ and we were joking about making a cake about it...so I did.

It was very hot so I didn't feel like baking and instead I made a simple refrigerator cake using Nabisco chocolate wafers and whipped cream.  It's very easy and the recipe is even on the box; just spread whipped cream between each cookie and stack them together.  The cookies absorb the moisture of the whipped cream and turn cake-like with some whipped cream remaining between each layer.  Delicious!  I just arranged the cookies in a circle like this:

and then covered the whole "cake" with grey whipped cream and piped onto the top with a slightly darker whipped cream.