For this year, the options were bicycle, tent, or scuba diving. We recently came back from our first time bike camping so I thought WHY NOT?
I had two possible minimum viable products:
- Tent: formed from a square cake cut along the diagonal, or
- Cake with a bicycle drawn in icing
I spent a few minutes on Wednesday night sketching out a design. The wheels were made from 23 cm diameter cake pans so I had to get the remaining bits at the right scale.
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| The sketches. |
Thursday night was spent baking. I found out that ovens can only fit two cakes at once... not three. Whoops. On the plus side the smell attracted the housemates and we had a good yarn.
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| Cooling the cakes on chopsticks because multi-purpose tools are the best |
Friday night was spent cutting the shapes and icing it. I had to wait for the cake to cool before cutting or the pieces would have fallen apart.
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| Putting the pieces together |
Saturday was the grand reveal. Happy birthday 🎉
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| The finished product with my actual rear bike light. Don't worry, I have a brighter rear light too |
