My husband is a member of the Anesthesia History Association and for their Spring meeting in Pittsburgh this year, he asked that I perform some "cake magic" for the member's dinner. The logo of the association is a Morton Inhaler, a large glass sphere with a port for inserting anesthetic agents and a mouthpiece for the patient to inhale those agents. The association has also published, and been affliated with, several prestigious books.
Everything on this cake is edible. The sphere is dark chocolate cake with rolled buttercream icing. The mouthpiece and port are hand modeled gum paste painted with luster dust. The books are caramel cake marbeled with dark chocolate and dark chocolate marbled with caramel. They're filled with chocolate mousse. They're iced first in vanilla buttercream and then covered with fondant. The titles are hand piped to mimic the actual books.
The AHA membership was delighted with the cake and published a photo of it on their website. The picture of the cake is also going to be published in the American Society of Anesthesiologists' newsletter.
