The cake for Us

Cake

Not a cake

This was a cake for a good-bye party for a volunteer leaving the lab.  It was very popular.  If you are a in a bio lab doing protein work, it might very well make you giddy:  "Oh look at that Western Blotter!  Ooh look at the blot...It even has Novex marker run on it!  I just want to turn those knobs!"  If you are not nerdy enough, you might just say "are those knobs? They look like noses."  but as I said, it was the right crowd, and they all really liked it.
Amazing how hard it is to make even a simple cake, especially when you are out of practice.  Just getting together all the supplies, getting back into the groove of icing smoothly and not picking up crumbs.  Actually white frosting (or very light) is the worst - shows crumbs, need a fairly thick coating.  This took me about 4.5 hours start to finish (not totally occupied in the cake the whole time, but maybe 75%).  Also, the decorator's dilema: butter-cream does not like humidity.
I do love making them, though.