A giant dragonboat cake!
About six months ago, which was two months into my new workplace, a lady at work clocked the fanciness of my weekly office cakes, cornered me while I was distracted, and asked me if I’d make a dragonboat cake as the centre piece of her dragonboat club fundraising stall. I kind of shrugged and said, “Yeah, OK....” and promptly forgot about it for 5 months and 3 weeks, and here we are.
I consider myself a pretty proficient baker, but I have never in my life, not even once, used fondant..so I thought I’d start with something simple, like a giant white chocolate mud cake with freeze dried raspberry buttercream, dark chocolate ganache, a ton of fondant, a sugar paste dragon head, two styrofoam boat tips, two pieces of wooden dowel, gold luster dust, copper dust, rose spirit alcohol, the biggest cake board you’ve ever seen, hundreds of feathers cut out of marshmallow fondant, an entire tub of piping gel, and a whooooooole lot of swearing.
(My favourite detail is the drum, that I stamped with my Hong Kong heirloom moon cake mold and dusted in edible copper.)
