Cutout Ralph Cake

Cake designer Kylie Mangles challenged herself to do something new and different with cake that she’d never done before. She selected an image of Ralph Wiggum from The Simpsons by Erick Flores called Cutout Ralph. How do you translate this into a cake? Mangles combines a lot of art and cake techniques to get it done, and described the process at Threadcakes. A snippet:

Then the fun part began: adding the intestines, spine, ribs, what I suspect might be a gallbladder and spleen or maybe a kidney. Then I added the cut up leg and arm. There was one more support dowel in the arm to hold everything up. I wanted to do the black outline but I wasn't sure how it would turn out, so I put him all together first and then added the black outline after. I think it would have been easier to add the black lines as I went along but it worked out in the end, just with a little more patience and a lot more coffee. While I was doing this I also removed all his lower teeth and added to his lower jaw to bring it out and put his teeth back on.

Thanks to the black outlines, the finished product really did look like a drawing. But they ate it anyway, and enjoyed it. There are lots of pictures to remember him by. By the way, the image above is of the cake, not the drawing!



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