Last week I delivered a cake order to Penn State’s main campus in State College, PA for a conference that was being held by Penn State’s Astrophysics department in conjunction with NASA. The two organizations worked to develop and launch a satellite, Swift, and this conference marked the 5-year anniversary of the satellite going into orbit. The conference planners wanted to throw a little party at the end of the conference to celebrate the milestone.
We decided on creating three cakes – one representing Penn State, one representing NASA, and the third representing the actual satellite. All of the cakes are 12″ and 8″ stacked rounds, covered in fondant, with fondant stripes on the bottom tier to match the logo colors, with buttercream borders. One was a white cake with raspberry filling, one was a chocolate cake with a chocolate buttercream filling, and the third was a lemon cake with lemon buttercream filling.
The Penn State Nittany Lion logo was created using fondant:
The NASA logo was created using fondant, with the “swoosh” and stars on the logo decorated with white royal icing:
The Swift cake included the program’s “Swift” logo in fondant on the front of the top tier, and a fondant depiction of the satellite itself on top:
This order was extremely well-received and it was fun to see some of the participants get a sneak peak of the cakes. They were all very excited about how they looked and enjoyed taking pictures of them.
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You’re really an artist!! Very beautiful and fancy!
Ahhh so this is what you were busy doing last week. They are so beautiful! (and look yummy!)
Beautiful cakes! I love the NASA logo!
What an awesome opportunity! I visited Penn State a few years ago, because I got accepted to grad school there. It is a gorgeous campus. The cakes are absolutely beautiful!
These cakes are amazing! I graduated from Penn State five years ago, and I currently work for the local PBS station here in State College. Ironically, we’re doing some work for the SWIFT project, so I think these cakes are just so sweet (and I bet they tasted awesome, too). I have to share these photos with my colleagues!
Being a NASA brat myself, I love the logo! Great job!
Great use of fondant. I have not tried it yet, but I will soon!
GREAT JOB!!!! You did such an amazing job. You are so extremely talented.
Fabulous looking cakes!
Wow. Those are awesome! I know that I would get really excited about a cake that looked like something I’d been working on for a really long time!
Your cakes are amazing! Great job done! Hubby and I visited State College a few years ago….a very nice place!
Enjoy!
I graduated from Penn State. Just gorgeous.
Awesome job, they look perfect!
I would love a tutorial about how to cover cakes with fondant and stack them if you have time
I just played with fondant for the first time and had fun with it, but I haven’t gotten up the courage to try covering a cake yet!
Wonderful job! My fav is the NASA fondant work.
Very elegant cakes! you did a great job!
Awesome cakes, cuz! You really are talented!!
These are just beautiful! I just started making fondant cakes myself. The creativity involved is so much fun.