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RachelPockets
10-25-2012, 10:52
I got bit by the backpacking bug this summer and went on a 65 mile section hike of the AT. Recently my one friend and fellow hiker celebrated his birthday. So in honor of him and our trip I made this cake (and yes, it really is a cake and its all edible). I decided to come share it on this forum since I thought other backpackers would enjoy seeing it. I'm not familiar with these forums so I'll post the picture and the link in case one doesn't work.
17873 https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=441675775868629&set=a.153834164652793.29461.152182224817987&type=1&theater

Train Wreck
10-25-2012, 10:54
I want one!

Rocket Jones
10-25-2012, 10:54
Very nice!

leaftye
10-25-2012, 11:01
That's amazing. Best first post ever!

Karma13
10-25-2012, 11:05
That's awesome!

And.... :welcome

RachelPockets
10-25-2012, 11:07
I want one!

I do sell cakes and I'd take your money but unless you want to hike to Ohio and pick it up I think we might have a problem... :-(

RachelPockets
10-25-2012, 11:09
Thank you everyone, both for the complements and for the welcome!

Even though I've only backpacked once, I loved it and I may stick around on this forum, who knows? Should I start a whole line of backpacking inspired cakes? lol

Train Wreck
10-25-2012, 11:16
I do sell cakes and I'd take your money but unless you want to hike to Ohio and pick it up I think we might have a problem... :-(

Hey, the AT runs through North Carolina, you know :D

RachelPockets
10-25-2012, 11:22
Hey, the AT runs through North Carolina, you know :D

While I love both backpacking and cake decorating I do think it would be a bit tricky to do both at the same time... :)

max patch
10-25-2012, 11:23
Wow, I scanned your FB page; you are very talented. Is there a blue blaze to Ohio?

RachelPockets
10-25-2012, 11:28
Wow, I scanned your FB page; you are very talented. Is there a blue blaze to Ohio?


lol, thank you. I'm not aware of any blue blazes that long. That would be nice!

88BlueGT
10-25-2012, 11:43
Very nice.

John B
10-25-2012, 12:11
Oh wow. That's a beautifully imaginative cake. Outstanding!

Rasty
10-25-2012, 12:29
Nice cake! Is that modeling chocolate for the bark?

RachelPockets
10-25-2012, 12:37
Nice cake! Is that modeling chocolate for the bark?

Wow, someone else on here who knows cake lingo? The bark is chocolate, but not modeling chocolate. I melted the chocolate and spread it all over the cake. Then I used more melted chocolate to attach other pieces of chocolate bark that I had previously made.

gizzy bear
10-25-2012, 14:05
Nice cake! Is that modeling chocolate for the bark?

hehehe!! that's UBER manly !!! :p

Train Wreck
10-25-2012, 14:07
hehehe!! that's UBER manly !!! :p

"Hurl not ye insults at the one preparing thy food, lest ye hurl in earnest later"

Rasty
10-25-2012, 14:12
Nice cake! Is that modeling chocolate for the bark?

Wow, someone else on here who knows cake lingo? The bark is chocolate, but not modeling chocolate. I melted the chocolate and spread it all over the cake. Then I used more melted chocolate to attach other pieces of chocolate bark that I had previously made.

I'm a regular chef. My brother is a pastry chef. It's hard to tell in a picture what kind of chocolate is used. Great work!

atmilkman
10-25-2012, 14:13
That cake is really cool. I'll bet I could eat it in one sitting.

Namaste
10-25-2012, 14:18
That's a great looking cake. I love the realistic details. I bet it tastes as good as it looks....yum! Trail angel?

tf bear
10-25-2012, 14:40
Let me know what shelters or camp sites you are staying at next hike. If you are carrying cake, I would be glad to lighten you pack! Welcome to WB

gizzy bear
10-25-2012, 14:44
"Hurl not ye insults at the one preparing thy food, lest ye hurl in earnest later"

the chef made fun of muscadines!!!! :p

Train Wreck
10-25-2012, 14:49
the chef made fun of muscadines!!!! :p

I know...but I'm not going to try too hard to convert him. More for us!:D

Rasty
10-25-2012, 14:58
I know...but I'm not going to try too hard to convert him. More for us!:D

Back to cafe and I will attempt to teach you what good wine is. The topic for today is Spanish wines.

WingedMonkey
10-25-2012, 15:00
Last Spring's ATC Cake Baking Contest:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/atconservancy/sets/72157629191440748/

Train Wreck
10-25-2012, 15:01
Rachel,
In all seriousness, you should consider entering competitions, if you're not doing so already.

Rasty
10-25-2012, 15:04
Last Spring's ATC Cake Baking Contest:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/atconservancy/sets/72157629191440748/

No contest! Sorry to last springs winner!

Train Wreck
10-25-2012, 15:11
No contest! Sorry to last springs winner!

I agree.
I do hope they represented Pennsylvania properly by filling the inside part with irregular chunks of hard jawbreakers ;). I will never forget northern PA as long as I live!!

avalonmorn
10-25-2012, 15:36
:sunWow!!!
I live in Oklahoma, and my house was built over the Chisholm Trail, so I'll need one with a big cow patty, along with some dry wheat stalks that the drought and grasshoppers have destroyed, a few snakes, red dirt clods, and a football!

Rasty
10-25-2012, 15:39
:sunWow!!!
I live in Oklahoma, and my house was built over the Chisholm Trail, so I'll need one with a big cow patty, along with some dry wheat stalks that the drought and grasshoppers have destroyed, a few snakes, red dirt clods, and a football!

Maybe add a tornado in the background for something vertical to look at?

bannerstone
10-25-2012, 16:27
Very very nice!

David

HikerMom58
10-25-2012, 16:39
Hey there WELCOME.... I so wished you lived close to me... I would buy your cakes in a heartbeat!! :)

atmilkman
10-25-2012, 17:08
Back to cafe and I will attempt to teach you what good wine is. The topic for today is Spanish wines.
Si. Pass the MadDog.

Rasty
10-25-2012, 17:34
Back to cafe and I will attempt to teach you what good wine is. The topic for today is Spanish wines.
Si. Pass the MadDog.

Is Maddog even wine?

RachelPockets
10-25-2012, 18:34
Rachel,
In all seriousness, you should consider entering competitions, if you're not doing so already.

I do enter competitions, such as the county fair and any other local ones I hear about. That would would be a bit of a drive though. I wish I could backpack to get there but I think the quality of the cake would suffer!

melaniebk
10-25-2012, 18:43
That is the cutest (and only) hiking related cake I've seen. Very imaginative!

atmilkman
10-25-2012, 19:07
Is Maddog even wine?
Hmm. You might have me there. If it's not I'm pretty sure it's at least an elixir.

dink
10-25-2012, 19:48
no pun intended but that is really "sweet"!!!

CarolinaATMom
10-26-2012, 06:41
You cake is a work of art!! I wish I could bake and decorate like that since my son, Loner, is coming home later this week or early next and we'll be celebrating his birthday that we didn't get to celebrate on the trail, his completion of his thru-hike and the first section of his girlfriend, Wildcat who met and fell in love with and how lat4er joined him on the AT.

Maddog
10-26-2012, 07:01
That cake is freakin' awesome! Maddog:D

off-pher
10-26-2012, 07:15
No really that cake is freakin AWESOME!!!!!!!!!! Off-pher:cool:

RachelPockets
10-26-2012, 07:48
You cake is a work of art!! I wish I could bake and decorate like that since my son, Loner, is coming home later this week or early next and we'll be celebrating his birthday that we didn't get to celebrate on the trail, his completion of his thru-hike and the first section of his girlfriend, Wildcat who met and fell in love with and how lat4er joined him on the AT.

I'm sure whatever you make will be made will love and that's what counts!

Maddog
10-26-2012, 08:11
No really that cake is freakin AWESOME!!!!!!!!!! Off-pher:cool:
I stand corrected! Maddog:bse

HikerMom58
10-26-2012, 08:21
I'm sure whatever you make will be made will love and that's what counts!

http://www.whiteblaze.net/forum/images/Eloquent/miscgreen/quote_icon.png Originally Posted by CarolinaATMomhttp://www.whiteblaze.net/forum/images/Eloquent/buttonsgreen/viewpost-right.png (http://www.whiteblaze.net/forum/showthread.php?p=1353754#post1353754)You cake is a work of art!! I wish I could bake and decorate like that since my son, Loner, is coming home later this week or early next and we'll be celebrating his birthday that we didn't get to celebrate on the trail, his completion of his thru-hike and the first section of his girlfriend, Wildcat who met and fell in love with and how lat4er joined him on the AT.


I'm sure whatever you make will be made will love and that's what counts!

I agree with you, RachelPockets :)

CarolinaATMom has her own special gifts to share that will make her son's homecoming very special as well, I'm sure. I agree with her tho- ur awesome cake creation would be PERFECT for the occasion. :)

oldbear
10-26-2012, 08:32
Well done Rachel
Are the leaves made from fondant ?
As far as a wine goes : I think that our choices should be limited to wines that are made in the states that the AT passes through.
I'm thinking big and red and native grapes

RachelPockets
10-26-2012, 10:44
Well done Rachel
Are the leaves made from fondant ?
As far as a wine goes : I think that our choices should be limited to wines that are made in the states that the AT passes through.
I'm thinking big and red and native grapes

Yes, the leaves are made from my homemade marshmallow fondant.


Btw, I feel like explaining what is probably obvious to other backpackers but I'll do it anyway. My user name is my given first name and my trail name combined. I think together they sound kinda silly but it's what I chose so I'm stuck with it. Pockets comes from me always wearing clothes with pockets and my trail mates not. I was always holding stuff for them in my pockets.

HikerMom58
10-26-2012, 11:50
If you think ur username is too long or kinda silly you can change it ...

Ktaadn
10-26-2012, 12:05
Rachel, tomorrow is my b-day. Can you overnight one to MD?

Train Wreck
10-26-2012, 12:07
Yes, the leaves are made from my homemade marshmallow fondant.


Btw, I feel like explaining what is probably obvious to other backpackers but I'll do it anyway. My user name is my given first name and my trail name combined. I think together they sound kinda silly but it's what I chose so I'm stuck with it. Pockets comes from me always wearing clothes with pockets and my trail mates not. I was always holding stuff for them in my pockets.

I like the user name. It's cute.
I have a friend who LOVES pockets. She even had her wedding dress made with them!

RachelPockets
10-26-2012, 12:18
Rachel, tomorrow is my b-day. Can you overnight one to MD?

Lol, I'm working on a customers wedding cake right now, I don't think I'll have time, sorry!

RachelPockets
10-26-2012, 12:19
I like the user name. It's cute.
I have a friend who LOVES pockets. She even had her wedding dress made with them!

Ha ha! That's awesome!

Train Wreck
10-26-2012, 12:30
You need to figure out how to dehydrate the cakes, vacuum pack them, and sell them to backpackers :)

RachelPockets
10-26-2012, 13:09
You need to figure out how to dehydrate the cakes, vacuum pack them, and sell them to backpackers :)

LOL If I could do that it would be awesome! Decoration might be an issue though...

By the way, if you all lived near by I would have shared the pumpkin chocolate chip cupcakes I whipped up from extra cake batter this morning. As it is my neighbor is probably gad you don't. :-)

RachelPockets
10-26-2012, 13:13
As it is my neighbor is probably gad you don't. :-)

And by that I meant I shared with my neighbor, not my neighbor wouldn't like the backpacking community. I'm sure you all would get along fine. :-)

Train Wreck
10-26-2012, 13:34
And by that I meant I shared with my neighbor, not my neighbor wouldn't like the backpacking community. I'm sure you all would get along fine. :-)

new here, aren't you? :D:D

RED-DOG
10-26-2012, 14:32
Babysh$t101 here to stopped by to say Howdy say is this thang going to be edible. Babysh$t101 ( GA-ME 2012 )

RachelPockets
10-26-2012, 17:15
Babysh$t101 here to stopped by to say Howdy say is this thang going to be edible. Babysh$t101 ( GA-ME 2012 )

If you are asking was the stump cake edible, yes, it was quite edible. It was peanut butter cake. I ate some myself. :-)