For the Typogateaux brief we had to either work alone in a pair or as group of 3 and create a cake in the shape of a letterform or a glyph.I worked with Jnae Saunders and we decided to try and create a chocolate orange cake in the style of the Adobe Illustrator button.
We used morrisons chocolate cake mix and used and egg and water to mix with the cake mix , we then added the mix to a large square plastic container to bake the cake.
We used illustrator to make a large template with the letters 'A & i' for the stencil and cut them out with a scalpel.
I placed the stencil on top of the large square and cut out the letter A from it , it ended up to be more difficult than we first thought and the cake started crumbling once we cut it.
We repeated the process for the letter I which was at lot easier than the A because it was more simple. We covered the large square cake base in marzipan the same as the letters, we should of used icing i think it would of worked better. Although the marzipan worked just as good.
We had to cover the cake twice so it was thick and stayed together well. We use orange food colouring and flavouring to paint the cake orange, making the back darker than the letters to represent the Ai logo.
I think our cake turned out really well , it worked and the colours worked, i think it might of looked a bit more appetising if we had used icing instead of marzipan!
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