Tedeschi Trucks Band, "Made Up Mind" - 6/15/13 - This is one of my All-time FAVORITE cakes, bands, and folks of all time. I love the work of both Susan Tedeschi and Derek Trucks, so I was really excited to make them this cake. I decided to focus on their new album to be released August 20th, 2013 "Made Up Mind". I loved the imagery on the album cover, and decided I would attempt to copy it exactly. It combined organic forms with inorganic, and a lot of movement!! YES.
We took this cake south to them when they played at the infamous Red Rocks Amphitheater, where I had the distinct honor of presenting it backstage to not only Derek and Susan, but several band members as well, before the show. Afterwards we cut it up to a round of delighted smiles, some of my favorite smiles to date. They seemed to really understand what performance-level Art CAke is all about - having fun, making memories, celebrating the moment, playing with your food, remembering the joy of being a little kid with CAKE!! Everybody seemed to really like the Vanilla Pound cake with Caramel soak and Black Cherry Filling. Super-YUM++. One of my best combos.
BIG THANKS out to Derek, Susan, Road Manager, The Band, Staff, and Red Rocks Support for an AMAZING show, and for having us there to share the sweetness. You Rock, obviously. I will make you a cake anytime!
Special mentions too for Colorado Railroad Museum, and Old Engine #683 for help with reference.
PS: The Tedeschi Turcks Band album "Made Up Mind" was released shortly after we presented Susan, Derek, and co with this cake. It was nothing short of delicious - Get your copy - https://www.tedeschitrucksband.com/description?albumId=45
Tedeschi Trucks Band: https://www.tedeschitrucksband.com/
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We took this cake south to them when they played at the infamous Red Rocks Amphitheater, where I had the distinct honor of presenting it backstage to not only Derek and Susan, but several band members as well, before the show. Afterwards we cut it up to a round of delighted smiles, some of my favorite smiles to date. They seemed to really understand what performance-level Art CAke is all about - having fun, making memories, celebrating the moment, playing with your food, remembering the joy of being a little kid with CAKE!! Everybody seemed to really like the Vanilla Pound cake with Caramel soak and Black Cherry Filling. Super-YUM++. One of my best combos.
BIG THANKS out to Derek, Susan, Road Manager, The Band, Staff, and Red Rocks Support for an AMAZING show, and for having us there to share the sweetness. You Rock, obviously. I will make you a cake anytime!
Special mentions too for Colorado Railroad Museum, and Old Engine #683 for help with reference.
PS: The Tedeschi Turcks Band album "Made Up Mind" was released shortly after we presented Susan, Derek, and co with this cake. It was nothing short of delicious - Get your copy - https://www.tedeschitrucksband.com/description?albumId=45
Tedeschi Trucks Band: https://www.tedeschitrucksband.com/
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Work - In -Progress
I wanted this cake to be accurate in a way that impressed the eye. It took a TON of research. I realized the Engine on the cover was seriously lacking in the detail I needed. After extensive online research I decided to reach out to a local favorite place of mine, the Colorado Railroad Museum. Their Engine #683 was the closest I could find online, and when I emailed the staff was more than happy to go outside and snap photos for me. Those photos helped so much - Thanks again!! We visited the museum later, with kids, the day after the show, took them some cake carvings, and said hello to #683 in person.
( https://coloradorailroadmuseum.org/ )
The cake itself was quite a learning process. The biggest single challenge was the Sepia tone that the album cover is cast in. I started with a gumpaste tinted ivory, with which I shaped most of the hard details of the final structure. The goal was to start light, add hardened details to fondant-covered cake, and airbrush the all-one-beige result with a burnt umber as dark as needed.
The custom hardware structure that allowed for cake inside the Bison, the Engine, and the burm underneath the track was a piece of artwork in of itself. Sadly this was before I got in the habit of stopping to take photos, so the four posted are what I have left to illustrate the modular structure I designed. It was made of three separate pieces, Base, Engine, Bison. I wanted to be able to refrigerate each section between being worked on. Once I designed the whole structure, I took the Bison and Engine hardwares off, and mounted them to rough, independent bases, from which they could be removed when final assembly time came ready. Each was food safed with a combo of plastic wrap and marshmallow wrapped tourniquet-tight and covered in dried gumpaste.
The Bison and the Engine were stacked, carved, and covered with beige fondant. All of the details attached to the engine except the wheels and undercarriage. That was when I noticed that the gumpaste beige didn't quite match the fondant beige!! The gumpaste had a slightly green cast to it, while the fondant was more orangey. This was before I learned about adding tylose/CMC to fondant, but I still prefer gumpaste for hard details. But beige is deceptively hard to match.
Then each had to be held half-off the counter while I undid the bolt under each cake, then transferred it to the main board, re-did the bolt. Yikes. yes, I learned a lot with this cake! The Burm under the tracks then got added, sculpted, covered in fondant. The grass was SO FUN - spikes of the same beige gumpaste. After all the cakes were on I airbrushed several layers of deep brown shadows, and then added the airbrushed wheels to the engine, and the sassy tail to the bison.
I was delighted some months later when this cake was published in an article on Cake Central.com, "Friday Faves: Locomotives, Lace and Layering" ( https://www.cakecentral.com/blog/31710/friday-faves-locomotives-lace-and-layering )
( https://coloradorailroadmuseum.org/ )
The cake itself was quite a learning process. The biggest single challenge was the Sepia tone that the album cover is cast in. I started with a gumpaste tinted ivory, with which I shaped most of the hard details of the final structure. The goal was to start light, add hardened details to fondant-covered cake, and airbrush the all-one-beige result with a burnt umber as dark as needed.
The custom hardware structure that allowed for cake inside the Bison, the Engine, and the burm underneath the track was a piece of artwork in of itself. Sadly this was before I got in the habit of stopping to take photos, so the four posted are what I have left to illustrate the modular structure I designed. It was made of three separate pieces, Base, Engine, Bison. I wanted to be able to refrigerate each section between being worked on. Once I designed the whole structure, I took the Bison and Engine hardwares off, and mounted them to rough, independent bases, from which they could be removed when final assembly time came ready. Each was food safed with a combo of plastic wrap and marshmallow wrapped tourniquet-tight and covered in dried gumpaste.
The Bison and the Engine were stacked, carved, and covered with beige fondant. All of the details attached to the engine except the wheels and undercarriage. That was when I noticed that the gumpaste beige didn't quite match the fondant beige!! The gumpaste had a slightly green cast to it, while the fondant was more orangey. This was before I learned about adding tylose/CMC to fondant, but I still prefer gumpaste for hard details. But beige is deceptively hard to match.
Then each had to be held half-off the counter while I undid the bolt under each cake, then transferred it to the main board, re-did the bolt. Yikes. yes, I learned a lot with this cake! The Burm under the tracks then got added, sculpted, covered in fondant. The grass was SO FUN - spikes of the same beige gumpaste. After all the cakes were on I airbrushed several layers of deep brown shadows, and then added the airbrushed wheels to the engine, and the sassy tail to the bison.
I was delighted some months later when this cake was published in an article on Cake Central.com, "Friday Faves: Locomotives, Lace and Layering" ( https://www.cakecentral.com/blog/31710/friday-faves-locomotives-lace-and-layering )
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