After 17 years our Immunization Coordinator for the Coastal Health District, Marianne Pappas, retired. I was asked to make the cake for the party. I started with this t-shirt - one that Marianne had gotten made many years ago.
I made a photo copy of the t-shirt and used it to trace the images of the shirt using Color Flow Icing. The only time I have ever used the icing was when I took the Wilton Method cake decorating classes over 2 years ago. It's similar to Royal Icing in that you let it harden and then you have sugary decorations that you can place on the cake. You start with a thick consistency of the icing, place a piece of wax paper over the picture, and then trace the images. Then you thin out the icing and fill in the designs. It takes some pre-planning because the icing takes quite a while to dry, but I feel the wait is worth it!
The base cake is a 12" x 18" sheet cake - marble cake - iced with buttercream ising. The duck is vanilla cake made using 1/2 of the 3-D Duck pan from Wilton, and iced withbuttercream icing. The "Be Wise Immunize" design is made entirely out of color flow icing. The words and balloon strings were made using one photo copy of the t-shirt placed on a cardboard cake board with a piece of wax paper over it. The people and the balloons were made using a second photo copy of the shirt. Once all of the pieces dried they were peeled off of the wax paper and placed on the cake.
The possibilities with Color Flow icing are endless...your business'es logo, a picture from a coloring book, an original design...pretty much anything is possible!
