A good friend of mine saw this place on TV and suggested it knowing I was going to Philly this week. The Franklin Fountain. It's a really cool old fashion soda shop. The servers were wearing broaches and old fashion looking doilies as hair nets. They had all kinds of old candies, gum and bottled sodas(!). On a cold and rainy night Grant and I made our way there and it was yummy.... it was also the most I've ever paid for ice cream ;-)
What type of cake do you give a graduating accountant? Why an adding machine/printing calculator cake of course! A friend of mine text me asking me to make one for her husband's graduation party and I accepted the challenge! I was very nervous, as this was my first sculpted cake! The night before I started working on the cake I cut the keys out of fondant. Because I wanted to make it to scale, I used a photo of an actually printing calculator. And then used the algebra my momma taught me! :) The width of almost all of my keys is 5/8 of an inch. I then cut a 2" wide strip of gum paste approximately 6" long and laid it over a quart jar overnight to dry. The next day I started by making 2 9"x13" cakes and placing one on top of the other and shaping the top one (actually only using about 1/3 of it) to make the top of the calculator! I apologize I have no photos, this was a pre-blog cake. Then came butter cream in between the layers and covering the cake! I rolled o
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