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I didnt come up with that, Maria did.

So what have I been up to lately? Well, I've been making cakes like crazy. Still in the upheaval of moving. We are operational, but not really streamlined yet. The office is still pretty hectic. That should change now that we actually have a "slow period" coming up soon. But it seems to me that every time we think the season is over, bam, cake in the eye. Or rather, bam, 15 wedding cakes for this weekend. And then we die.

Thank god for Maria though. Couldnt have gotten through this year without her. Hopefully she'll start posting stuff up on here soon enough as well, and we can get through the massive amounts of cake photos we have stored up.

Seriously, it's a veritable cornucopia of cake pictures.

But this is the latest cake we made. Maria and I spent about a days worth of time on this cake and we wanted to make sure it looked great. Not only because we have huge egos, and together we are incorrigible, but also because this was for our friend's Halloween Party. We did a little research on line as saw some other companion cube cakes and said we could do better. And so we set off on our task at hand.

First of all, the bottom tier is Chocolate Devil's Food cake and the top tier is Triple Vanilla.

The cube itself is about 8.5" in every dimension before all the bits and bobs were put on. And we made sure it was exactly the same measurement on each side. After buttercreaming it, we put 20 fondant squares (4 to each side) that were painted with moonstone lustre dust. The we put the orange tubing in (which really glowed! It made this cake that much more awesome, plus delivering it at night was fantastic, I kept giggling to myself every time I saw it in my car glowing)

After the tubing we put the pumpkin logos on and added the corner pieces which were made out of fondant as well, which were painted a combination of different colors. The angled bits took a little bit of thinking but we ended up just filling the space with buttercream and smoothing it out. It worked a lot better than I had anticipated, and really gave it a nice finished look to the cube.

Anyway, hope you all have a great and safe Halloween this Friday, I'll be making a cake and possibly teching for a show.

~Joe

PS-if you have no idea what this is, google the video game "Portal" or "companion cube"