Props Pride Cakes for Minis

A bakery near me sells rainbow cake, which I've nicknamed pride cake. While I get to indulge every so often, my dolls not so much. After weeks of dithering, I finally broke down and ordered a stack of craft foam sheets:



I looked up various pride flags on Wikipedia, and got to work tracing and cutting out circles. I'm using a matcha can as a guide.



Here is a sample of what I made about a week ago. I'm cutting out and piling for now. Glue, slices and frosting are forthcoming.

 

I have more cakes cut and stacked.



Three are variations on the rainbow flag, including original, Philadelphia and six stripe


Here are bi, pan (upside down, ack,) and lesbian. I decided the lesbian cake was too short, so added a disc to each stripe.


I cut out a template and marked twin wedges on each disc for each cake. After more snips will come the grand assembly.

 

After cutting out wedges, put glue around the perimeter. You may put glue in the interior, but it will never dry, leading to a gooey surprise if you cut or pry apart the cake.

Stack foam together, trying to align the inside cuts. I layered the foam two by two before gluing completed pair together:



Use this time to take silly images:

 

I wasn't a fan of the glue residue on my bi cake:


I pried the pieces apart, cut half a centimeter off each glue crusted sides, and drew wedges on what remained. This cake will be all slices:

 

After gluing everything together, I set of a frosting rig out of cardboard and straight pins. The pins are pointy end up, to make sure the cake is secure:



I did not take pictures of the frosting in progress, as it is a gooey mess. Wear old clothes for this in case you accidentally lean on stuff, like I did. My frosting here is white puffy paint used for fabrics.

I also took scraps left over from cutting out the circles and snipped them into thin strips, then "sprinkles." While the paint was still wet, I mushed them into place.



I ran out of sprinkles part way through and hastily cut up some more. Not sure of the sprinkles are visibly thinner in places as a result.



Now that the pan cake is done, I'm on to frosting the bi slices.

 

I forgot to share these earlier. Behold the bi slices:



Three of the upper pieces were frosted with "chocolate" (brown) puff paint, making a subtle background difference between the sprinkles. Not sure what I think of this effect, but I'll go easy on the chocolate frosting, as I'm low on that color.



A side view. Again, I'm not sure how apparent the frosting hue is beneath the sprinkles.

Speaking of which, I awoke an RSI while working on these, so I'll be taking a short cake hiatus.

 

The cake hiatus was longer than expected. My RSI takes a while to heal, and I am easily distracted. I also forgot to take some in progress pictures.

After much snipping and breaks to discourage my tendons from hating me, I got enough rainbow sprinkles to cover two cakes plus change. Here is the classic rainbow:



There wasn't enough to fully cover the third rainbow cake, plus the first two looked pretty similar. Hence I only covered the top of the Philedelphia rainbow cake, and let frostong show on the sides. Here's an in progress image:



Not bad, though I'm not keen on the side ridges showing.

 

I question my judgement. Though cutting out sprinkles is the most physically taxing part, I went all out with encrusting my lesbian cake. I much prefer these props with their side ridges hidden. There was a careful balance of estimating what would be enough to cover the cake, versus going overboard and damaging my tendons for surplus I didn't need.

Here's the lesbian cake, newly frosted and encrusted. I added the leftover sprinkles to show close I got estimate wise.



Now to gradually flood the gallery pages.