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Mar 4, 2021 · Steel Magnolias is a 1989 movie starring Sally Field, Dolly Parton, Shirley MacLaine, Daryl Hannah, Olympia Dukakis, Julia Roberts, and many others. It revolves around the lives of women living in ...
- Why An Armadillo Cake?
- How Do You Make An Armadillo Cake
- To Make and Carve This Red Velvet Cake You’Ll Need These Tools.
In the play and then the movie they explain that the grooms cake is being made by the grooms aunt. Her specialty is an armadillo shaped cake made out of red velvet cake. What should be hideous is of course hilarious and some of the best lines revolve around this cake. At one point one of the main characters, Ouiser, says “that looks like an autopsy...
The Cake and Frosting
Start with red velvet cake. Traditional red velvet cake is light and fluffy and doesn’t carve well. You need a denser – more pound cake like texture. You want thicker layers with less frosting vs thinner cake and more frosting for the best results when carving cake. It’s much more stable with the thicker cake layers. For baking with deeper cake pans, like 3 and 4 inch pans, you’ll need to bake at a lower temperature for longer. 325 for 3 inch and 300 for 4 inch cakes. I baked 3 half sheet cak...
The Appendages
I made the head, tail and paws while the cake was chilling. You can also do it before even starting the cake – you just want to do it early enough that they have time to dry. For the head I started with a small batch of rice krispie treats – I use less cereal to keep it gooier so it sticks better. Shape it into the armadillo head shape – a large oval with a thin long nose in front. Cover it with frosting and chill it so the frosting becomes firm. Then cover the head with fondant and smooth. I...
Fondant body details
Because the over shell won’t go all the way to the base of the cake the first thing I do is add a thin layer of fondant anywhere the shells won’t cover. Around the base, neck and tail area. For the outer shell you can roll out a large sheet and cover the whole cake or what I did was add the fondant separately. I started with the back end shell. Trim the fondant to the shape you want for the shell then adding the circle markings. Make sure to smooth the side that will be getting more layers of...
Three half sheet (12x18x4) dense red velvet cakelarge serrated knife for carving (I use a 10″ serrated cutco knife)- (1)
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Nov 20, 2018 · Since grooms cakes are often fun, quirky, or unique, a bleeding armadillo cake can be a perfect choice. In Steel Magnolias, the type of cake makes it appear as if it is "bleeding" when cut into slices. The type of cake used to achieve this effect is a red velvet cake, which is a rich, sweet cake that can be made with or without chocolate ...
May 9, 2023 · From the armadillo-shaped cake in "Steel Magnolias" to modern versions featuring fondant beer bottles, the groom’s cake endures. ... When Steel Magnolias was released in 1989, ...
