The Science Brain Cake

I have been out of school for a couple years now, but in Biology 30 we were asked to create a diorama of the brain, and to label it's components. So I decided to create a cake. I created this cake when I was about 17 (I'm 20 now), so it's not perfect but it did it's job.

The first thing that was needed was the legend. The inside of the brain needed to be numbered so that you could see which part of the brain went where. Then the outside needed to be color coded so that you could see which part was which. To ice the base and pipe the legend I used a normal homemade butter cream frosting.

 The Brain was made out of half of an egg pan, and two mini egg cupcakes. I trimmed down the egg cupcakes to shape the cerebellum and the medulla oblongata, to make them more realistically shaped. I then dirty iced it with my butter cream and ran rope licorice around the outside to create the texture like a real brain. (This is where the fondant is bubbled out.) After that I covered it in a homemade butter cream fondant that I had made and colored pink. Taking a small paint brush I then painted the sections of the brain different colors with gel icing coloring, to show the separate sections of the brain.

 Next it was time to do the inside of the brain. Taking my paint brush and gel icing color once more I painted this diagram inside the cake and labeled them with their numbers. I finished the cake by piping some dots around the base and the bottom of the brain.

This was one of the first 3d cakes I have ever done, and I did it as a school project. It got 100%, bonus marks for originality and everyone thought it was delicious. I really enjoyed doing this cake and hope you like it too.

Deej