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DETAILED DIRECTIONS:
COMMODE DEMO
By Brenda Meyer...no picture, but
good design. Trying to get a picture.
For a one mix cake, use two 9" round pans and one 1lb. coffee can. Grease both pans as usual and with the can turned upside down (open end down); grease the sides of the can. Place the can in the center of one of the pans. With a long strip of masking tape, secure the can to the pan by sticking the center of the tape to the bottom of the can that is facing up and then securing it to the sides of the 9" pan. Pour batter into this pan first. Then with another long strip of tape, do the same thing again crisscrossing across the can. Put the rest of the mix in the second pan and bake as you normally would. When cake is done and has cooled some, level the regular layer and invert onto your foil wrapped board. This board can be wrapped in any color foil you choose. Remove the can from the other layer. Tip this layer out into your hand carefully and set onto a plastic wrapped board hump side up.
DO NOT LEVEL THIS LAYER. After the cakes have completely cooled, ice the top of the bottom layer like you would if you were doing a tier. Set the humped ring on top. If there are and rough edges around the ring, trim them off. You will then ice the commode inside the hole and out. Try to keep this as smooth as possible. I use a Viva Paper towel to smooth my icing. Once it is all smooth, you can pour in your piping gel. You can use straight piping gel which will be very thick or you can make it a pouring consistency by adding %2 piping gel and %2 clear Karo syrup. I usually tint the gel with some blue coloring and flavor it with Loraine Oil.
For the finishing touches; I cover an 8" round board with foil front and back, the same color of the commode. Cover this board as usual, and then cut a round piece of foil and either tape it to the center of the back or glue it. I usually make my commode white. Then with 3 wooden skewers, I push them up into the 8" board through the foil about a 1/3 of the way into the board. I then hold the protruding skewers up next to the back side of the commode and measure for height. Then cut off the excess. When ready you will carefully push the skewers into the edge of the cake, but not to close to the back edge. You don't want to crack the cake.
You can do your writing on the lid before you stand it up onto the cake. Just hold the edges carefully when you do. With a tip #8 or 10 pipe a ring around the bottom of the cake. Then add the bolt covers on either side. Don't forget to add the bolt covers on the back of the lid too.
If you want to really dress up this cake, especially for an OVER THE HILL CAKE, you can ad some goodies like twitting up some bite size Tootsie Rolls for little turds and dropping them into the gel. This keeps the cake completely edible and it gets some really big laughs.
If the cake is for a lady's birthday, you can add flowers. I like to place them towards the back of the cake by the lid.
You can also add a ruffle around the edge of the lid as if it were the seat cover.
This cake can be made in any size, but make sure you increase the size of the can also. Other uses for this cake shape...A wishing well, a fishing pond, a pool, a bowl etc.
Be creative and have fun with it.
You can also make it in an oval shape.
Halloween "Toilet Cake"
By NEIL OTTINGER
A white frosted angelfood-pan
shaped cake, (hollowed out to from bowl
complete w/"tank" & lid.
Filled W/ (preformed) yellow jello & a Baby Ruth
candy bar! <SCREAM> All
it takes is a little imagination to put it together.
A couple of friends baked
the cake W/ the bowl they planned to make the
jello in sitting on top ,
so the bowl would be preshaped. (how they did
that is the tricky part)
When making the jello, toss in a lumpy chocalate
bar & Wa-La! (the jello
shape matches the "bowl" perfectly! I think this
would be a real SCREAM at
any party. If anyone or yourself can help W/ the
construction, please do so.