Written by Trevor Johnston, David Ehrlich, Joshua Rothkoph, Tom Huddleston, Andy Kryza, Guy Lodge, Dave Calhoun, Keith Uhlich, Cath Clarke and Matthew Singer Take a look and massage your nostalgia receptors – and maybe find something mindblowing you’ve never seen before. Our list incorporates everything from Disney to Studio Ghibli, stop-motion nightmares to psychedelic headtrips, illustrated documentaries to however-the-hell you classify the work of maverick Jan Švankmajer.
In composing this list, we polled Time Out writers and experts including Fantastic Mr Fox ’s Wes Anderson and Wallace and Gromit’s Nick Park, and the results show just how expansive the genre can be. On the contrary, the best animated movies work on multiple levels, for broad audiences. Of course, that doesn’t mean that animation is only a realm for children. Whether it’s a classic of Disney’s Golden Age, a more recent Pixar heart-tugger for the young’uns or something weirder that your parents thought was age-appropriate when they picked it off a video store shelf, most first cinematic loves are animated.
And we’re going to bet that, in most cases, it starts with a cartoon. The end result was still great and I was really proud with what I achieved.No matter how snooty and highfalutin their taste in movies gets, every cineaste has to start somewhere. It was disappointing because she had gone to such effort. My beautiful wife had also gone to the trouble to make me some hat pins.īut when it came time to put them into the cake it wasn’t going to work so we left them out. which where too fragile to put on at home but we did put one set on just to see. The final touch was to place the tea cups. With the ribbon we folded it back onto itself which gave it a nice soft edge and a bit of body. I didn’t need to fix the bottom seam because the ribbon would cover that. Time to put it all together, first the brim on the checkerboard. In the end I wrapped it and cut a top then using some of the left over fondant and a couple of drops of water I made a paste the fill the seams. I think it was because of the taper, there was nothing to hold the weight. I was trying to cover it in one piece, problem was that the fondant kept tearing off. It took me 3 goes until I finally got it right. Next was the most frustrating, nerve wrecking part, covering the cake. It’s a bit hard to see the taper until the cakes are stacked. Then I repeated the process with the second tier only this time using the 6.5″ cakes and a 6″ board. ( confused yet? I am!) Cutting around the cake on a slight angle from the board to the edge of the cake. Cutting a 7″ cake board I placed it on top of what would become the bottom of the top tier. I baked two 8″ and two 6.5″ cakes and started with the top tier of 2 x 8″. The next job was to shape the two tiers so that they tapered in to the bottom.
For this I traced around a playing card (possibly the queen of hearts but i didn’t look) and then we freehand cut the numbers. The last job before the assembling of the cake was to make the card that sits in the ribbon of the hat. I planned to offset the hat on the cake board to fit the little teacup set and to emphasise the checkerboard, knowing that the hat would cover some I did cheat and filled the middle with just the white. I’ll forward you my address as the job would have been so much quicker and easier! But anyway armed with a ruler, toothpick and a pizza cutter I went to work making the squares. This was a bit of a tedious task and if anyone feels generous enough to donate one of these! The next job was to cut the squares for the checkerboard. We decided for the hat brim I needed to cut it out and rest the edges on some old paper towel rolls and let it air dry for a couple of days.
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The other job was to work out how to get the hat brim to sit up and look good. There were a few design elements that I needed to work out and a few requests to be included with the cake, one being the checkerboard on the cake board and that the hat card had to read 70/6 instead of 10/6. I’ll go through the disaster stories later but despite those this came out great and it was a hit at the party. I guess this is where taking a cake decorating course could really help or getting some dummy cakes and practicing laying it out. This Mad Hatters Cake would be my second fondant cake ever and while I now know the types of things you can do with the stuff I’m still a long way off being confident with it and it frightens the bejebers out of me when I take it near a cake. How could I resist an opportunity to try something new that would visually be so distinct. I was asked to make a Mad Hatters Cake for a 40th birthday party that had an Alice in Wonderland theme.
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