Practice Blog : TYPOGATEAUX 2012

In response to our given brief we were asked to produce cake which reflected an element of typographic content. In order to do so we were asked to compile a body of research which included design sheets and test material in order to show the thought process upon building this typographic cake.

Initial research is documented on my design context blog:

http://a-mistry1215-dc.blogspot.co.uk/2012/12/typogateaux-2012-research.html

Once receiving the straight these were my immediate thoughts upon the delivery of the cake, before deicing that I would be working in a group.

3 tier cake -A fairly adventorous idea however still viable, idea 4 would be much more type-like.

This would most likely be the most viable, efficient and precise idea. The simplistic cake focuses more on the type and design on the top.

The process of making the cake:

We started off by making the mixture for the cake, as the cake consists of two layers we had to make two lots of the chocolate mixture, making sure that the layers had an equal amount of mixture when pouring into the baking tray.

Once doing so we then placed the mixture into the baking trays and placed these into the oven to cook for the given time.

After the cake had been baked we then decided to wait for it to cool before adding the chocolate spread in-between the two layers. This was done so that the cake wouldn’t absorb the chocolate mixture or melt it further so that it would seep out of the sides.

Whilst the cake cooled we melted the chocolate buttons in order to give us this spread, which we could then use as an adhesive to for the two layers of cake.

We then left the cake overnight to settle and cool and for the chocolate spread to set within and over the cake.

Adding the type was the next stage in developing the cake. As you can see we decided to go for the bauball design along with this chosen typeface to construct the words ‘MERRY CHRISTMAS’.

As we can see once producing the stencil digitally we decided to cut out the bauball shape along with the type using a scalpel.

After doing so we completed the final stage of the cake process by using the stencil as a guide and placing icing sugar on the top of the stencil onto the cake.

FINAL PRODUCT: