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Peo's 2008 Birthday Cake - Fraggle Rock

This was for Peo's third birthday, when she was obsessed with the show Fraggle Rock. As with previous cakes, I used nap and sleep time to secretly make the figures in advance, which took about six weeks.

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First I made a rough plan by stacking my cake pans, taking a digital picture, and then loading that into Windows Paint. I used Google's image search to find photos of the characters in roughly the right sort of pose I wanted, and then scaled them accordingly in Paint to get an idea of where everyone would fit. This way I knew in advance what I had to make, what I had to bake, and where I'd have room for things to go. You can see that the original plan was to include three Gorgs (represented by three Junior pics), but I ran out of time so only Junior made it to the final cake. As expected, Peo asked where the King and Queen were, so I made up a story about them not being there right now.

Then I modelled the characters in white fondant, using toothpicks as supports both internally and temporary external ones for holding pieces while they dried:

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Then I painted the characters with watered-down gel colours:

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Then I covered all the cakes in gray fondant, and then built on a slide for Red with pillars underneath and temporary toothpicks to hold it in place while it dried. I also dug out a hole for the sugar pond, which turned out more amber than I wanted because I'm still new to cooking sugar and always seem to let it go those few seconds too long. Lastly, I added a little rock with a hole to simulate the entrance into the Gorg garden.

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After placing all the characters, the doozer construction (made from pouring boiled sugar into the stick portions of lollipop molds), the platform for Sprocket (held up by fondant pipes that have toothpicks inside), and placing piped greenery and flowers all over to hide as much of my sloppy fondant covering as I could, the cake was done!

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Here's the cake being served at the party!

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