ehhhh? I’d better explain right? Ok..
I was contacted on my Facebook page by a very lovely, very beautiful lady inquiring about a cake for her husband. It turned out she is a professional model and her husband was a professional photographer. I can guess how they met…
Anyway, those that follow this little blog of mine on a regular basis will know I’m quite into my photography and i’ll admit to finding it quite amusing that here I was being asked to create a cake of the very same camera I use to photograph the cakes and cookies I make! It’a a bizarre world sometimes isn’t it!
I studied my camera like never before and baked a flat sheet cake ready to stack and carve. Once cut, stacked, crumb coated and covered i began working in the details and lines of the cake, constantly referring back to my trusty camera that was sat on the kitchen top quietly posing for me.
Once I was happy with the shaping and details out came best friend Dinky my airbrush and I sprayed the cake black first then worked back over with white to add highlights. I finished with a mix of black, white and blue to create the lens glass.
Finally I added an edible image i’d had printed of the lucky birthday boy and his gorgeous wife to replicate the screen on the back of the camera.
Once I was happy with everything I covered it in a light covering of edible ‘gloss’ spray to seal all the colour and prevent it lifting off when eaten.
So, here it is! One Canon 5D mk 11 digital SLR camera cake, vanilla sponge with chocolate buttercream, covered in fondant and airbrushed. Photographed (naturally) by the real canon 5D mk 11 digital SLR camera.
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WOW! You are very talented! I just got my first DSLR and I can’t wait to play with it
hI, i am going to attempt a canon camera cake and was wondering how do you put on the intricate letters on the cake, i have looked for cake letter stencils but cannot find anything. I also cannot find a detailed picture of this camera to copy and i also do not have a printer so i am really up against it, could you give me some tips.
Thanks
Hi Janet. I had to get a bit clever with this. I wanted to use an edible pen (easy to write with) but could not find a white edible pen ANYWHERE!!! I bought a silver but this didn’t show up on the black. In the end I grabbed my white edible airbrush paint and dipped the end of the silver edible pen into it. (Ruined the silver pen of course.) However it soaked up the white enough that I could write with the pen and it came out white. I kept re-dipping and just wrote everything on by hand. I hope this helps!