My Cell

This is MY edible cell for Biology.  I'm poud of it.

It is a cake base.

I used:

*Fruit-Filled rolls

*Sour and origanl sour gummy worms.

*Pixie Sticks

*M&Ms

*Hubba Bubba Gum

 *Green Pop Rocks

and *Tootsie Rolls.

After I had all my candy in place, it was time to cut the cake in the shape of a cell...

Then I rapped the outside in the Fruit Strips

 

My Mother told me about this recipe for "Crusted Butter Cream Frosting"

You put on the icing, then you take a VIVA paper towel (It HAS to be VIVA) and you put it on the top of the cake and gently press on it.  Then when you lift it, it's smooth.

Here's the recipe:

•2 lbs. sifted powdered sugar

1/2 cup or 1 stick butter, softened.

1-1/2 cups solid vegetable shortening

2 tbsp. clear vanilla extract

1/3 cup water for icing cake -OR- 1/4 cup for stiff consistency.

1/4 tsp. almond extract



Instructions

Cream butter, shortening, and extracts until creamy and smooth. Gradually add powdered sugar and water. Mix thoroughly on medium speed for hand mixers, low speed for stand mixers, until smooth and creamy. Do not overmix or mix on high speed.

Observe...

Well, I didn't say perfect.

This is what it was suppose to look like...

And this is what I ended with...

Just to be nerdy, I'm going to tell you everything that's in the cell cake and what it's made from.

Cell wall- Green fondent

Plasma membrane- Fruit rolls

Cytoplasm- Icing

Ribosomes- Green pop rocks

Smooth ER- Non sour gummys worms

Rough ER- Sour gummy worms

Chromatin- Rasins (not shown)

Nucleolus- Red fondent

Nucleus- Blue fondent

Vacuole- M&M

Golgi body- Hubba Bubba

Leucoplast- Almond (not shown)

Central vacuole- Purple Pixie stick

Chloroplast- Yellow and Red fondent

Mitochondrion- Hubba Bubba and Tootsie rolls.

:-)