Earth Cake Picture
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Creating an earth cake may seem difficult, but for the love of the Earth I made an Earth day cake with my kids. We always love a reason to celebrate any and all occasions and I can’t think of a better cause… helping our earth for future generations. My kids and I decided to make the Earth in the shape of a heart so show our love and appreciation. I totally agree that we all need to help save our earth any way possible. And I am completely aware that I have and could change in leaps and bounds to help create this change. |
Where I live there are two days…. Earth Day and Earth Hour. Both days we are to self reflect and see how we can make changes to help our environment. For most individuals they will commit to turning off the lights, and make a small party. Doing activities that don’t require electricity. I like to look at these days to be like a New Year’s Eve where you make a resolution. How can you, going forward, help our environment.
This cake was made to celebrate with friends. I thought that it was fun to combine the love of our earth by making the cake shaped like a heart and to try to create the picture to look like a globe. I tried to make north america, south america, europe and africa. For my body of water I tried to put in the Atlantic ocean.
Creating an earth cake may seem difficult, but for the love of the Earth I made an Earth day cake with my kids. We always love a reason to celebrate any and all occasions and I can’t think of a better cause… helping our earth for future generations. My kids and I decided to make the Earth in the shape of a heart so show our love and appreciation.
I totally agree that we all need to help save our earth any way possible. And I am completely aware that I have and could change in leaps and bounds to help create this change.
Where I live there are two days…. Earth Day and Earth Hour. Both days we are to self reflect and see how we can make changes to help our environment. For most individuals they will commit to turning off the lights, and make a small party. Doing activities that don’t require electricity. I like to look at these days to be like a New Year’s Eve where you make a resolution. How can you, going forward, help our environment.
This cake was made to celebrate with friends. I thought that it was fun to combine the love of our earth by making the cake shaped like a heart and to try to create the picture to look like a globe. I tried to make north america, south america, europe and africa. For my body of water I tried to put in the Atlantic ocean.
How to Make the Ultimate Earth Cake
My kids and I made two yellow heart cakes. The cake pans are no different than making two round cakes. I made the regular cake mix and did the cooking instructions for a round cake pans instructions. Before putting the cake mix into the pan I do place wax paper under the mixture. I trace the pan, with a pair of scissors onto the wax paper and cut it out. Then I spray a bit of cooking spray into the middle of the bottom. This will hold the wax paper in place. I do also spray the sides of the pan. Then it is ready for the cake mixture. Remember to use a toothpick to see if your cake has been cooked properly. If you poke the cake it should come out clean.
After the two heart shaped cakes are cooled is when you can level them. Use a large serrated knife to cut along the cake pan. If you make lots of cakes you may wish to purchase and use a cake leveler. This way after you pop out your cake you set the height you wish the cake to be and cut along the top to make the desired height. With the leftover cake tops you are able to set these aside and later make cake pops.
I put chocolate icing in the center of the two cakes. I just used a bent cake spatula to apply the icing. Then I made a blue icing for the outside using vanilla icing by adding Azul Blue Wilton icing coloring to the icing and mixing in a bowl. Around the outside of the cake I used a spatula to apply the icing. This created a smooth outside. I also applied a thin crumb icing to the top of the cake.
On the top of the cake I used piping gel in an icing bag to create the shape of the continents. I looked at a picture of the world and tried my best to create the shape. This helped to create my outline of the continents and then I concentrated on applying icing. I then made green icing by mixing vanilla icing with Leaf Green Wilton coloring. I mixed it in a bowl then with a regular soft spatula I put the icing into an icing bag. I applied the green icing using the Wilton piping tip number 16. Tip sixteen makes a nice flower design. For the ocean blue color I used the same icing from the sides and I added in piping gel to make it look water-like. The water then looked glossy. I applied the blue water-like icing with the bent cake spatula. It looked both smooth and had some small swirls to make a life-like look to the water.
There are many different earth inspired foods, cookies, cakes that can be made for this unique celebration. We should all really be celebrating our earth as often as possible. If not just to have fun with friends and family, but to do a personal reassessment of how we each can continually do one more thing to help our environment. This is a great assessment for ourselves and to pass onto future generations. For Earth day or earth hour show your love of the earth by making a heart cake with the Earth pattern.
