Exploding Cake!

Without further ado, here is the exploding cake from the 4th of July, 2010!

The cake

My sister-in-law, Katie, and I took course III in the Wilton cake decorating series and this was the cake we made at the final class on June 30th.  Neither one of us wanted to take it home to eat it, so as we were assembling it in class we were discussing who would take it home to dispose of it instead.  I jokingly made the suggestion that we could blow it up at the 4th of July ranch festivities the following weekend as a follow-up to the exploding cupcakes from last year (story on how those came to be here),  and the idea quickly took hold and became the plan.

Matt digging a hole for the mortar

Last chance to have a bite!
(We decided to take the support pillars and cake plate out of the middle.  Being impaled by a $2 piece of plastic would be a rather lame 4th of July injury.)

The Stockemer kids figuring out what to do with all those firecrackers

A few last minute decorative touches

The decorators with their cake

Going out in a blaze of glory

Cake on the hole, fuse ready to be lit.
Like last year, the cake did have a bit of a mishap on the way to the ranch, thus the wonky looking fondant.  It really is turning in to tradition!
(I forgot to take a picture of the mortar itself, but it was around the size of a grapefruit I'd say.)

It's lit!

And now we wait...

... and wait...

... and wait.

The first blast!
(The first blast is what usually shoots the mortar in to the sky.  We put the mortar in the hole upside down so it wouldn't just shoot straight through the cake.  That would have been kinda anticlimactic.)


*Pause the blog music to hear the video*

And the aftermath:

I hope you enjoyed this year's installment of Confectionery Explosions :)
We are now taking suggestions on what next year's explosion should include.  Please leave a comment with your submission.