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   "Judith"  wrote in message   
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   > In article ,   
   > "George Johnson"  wrote:   
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   >> "Judith"  wrote in message   
   >> news:JUJU-592239.17251702052010@free.teranews.com...   
   >> > In article ,   
   >> > "George Johnson"  wrote:   
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   >>     By "dot frosting", I mean pressing a dot of frosting on the surface   
   >> of   
   >> the cake (usually in a shape of a border or flower), but when I do this   
   >> the   
   >> frosting never sticks to the surface properly or pulls away from the   
   >> frosting tip correctly.   
   >>     The egg white frosting is a "Royal Frosting", supposed to harden up   
   >> nicely when it dries.   
   >>   
   >>     I just wanted to make so nice looking and decent tasting cakes.   
   >>   
   >>     I still have a cake to make for work, but I'm thinking of just making   
   >> mini Bundt cakes with a cupcake pan I've got.   
   >>   
   >>   
   > There you go!  Just for fun, you might enjoy taking a cake-decorating   
   > class at the YMCA or some such place.  I can just see your graduation   
   > project:  a Tom Servo cake!   
   >   
   > Judith   
   >   
   > I must go now - my wife's falling over.   
   > -Jim Pills   
      
       Cake physics are a tricky matter without internal supports (preferably   
   edible, durable, and tasty which gets trickier as the cakes get larger and   
   more complex).   
      
       Tom Servo would require a multi-layered red cherry sugar-glass design   
   for the body shell, Royal Frosting or Fondant for the white parts, really   
   great quality sugar glass for the head.   
       The cake would be all tricky as hell as the cake itself would be   
   emitting moisture (ruining the sugar glass external framework) unless it was   
   akin to a Twinkee design packed with foamy whipped sugar + shortening.  The   
   bigger question would somebody without a diabetic coma wish be willing to   
   chow down on the cake?   
      
       Heck, I could probably design a decent 3D printer program for this (one   
   nozzle for cake mix + 1 for sugar glass) using one of these devices.   
       I don't think I have the patience for a long project making a candy/cake   
   Tom Servo I'd think.   
      
       Want one, not necessarily for crazy fancy cake making.   
   http://reprap.org/wiki/Main_Page   
   http://www.bitsfrombytes.com/   
   http://fabathome.org/   
   http://www.makerbot.com/   
      
       Now if I wanted some crazy fancy cake decorations...   
   http://www.cricut.com/cricutcake/   
      
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