Baking is fun. Having a platter to serve cake on can't hurt. Based on that idea, of course, it was necessary to give it a try.
Throwing seemed as the easy way to go. Plate actually got a crack at the end and after burning, it was not as straight as desired. I liked the idea though. Color of choice: blue. When the h@ll does anybody want a blue plate for a cake really? But well, nothing wrong with the color in itself. Just cannot see it go together with any cake design.... But the real problem turned out to be the fact that it was too little. For an average smaller cake with icing on, the flowers get covered to half and there is not much of a border left.
Next try needed to have a smoother color. White would be a good start. And it will have to be larger. And I would have to try to make it stay "straight".
So: Thicker, with larger diameter and in porcelaine clay. And flowers on the border instead for on the plate itself.
Result: cracked but not too much, rather ok size and straight. Flowers little delicate so a few have been broken under usage, but well... White color got too thick on some spots, but who cares. BUT! Guess what... the only available underglaze was the blue one. So the flowers became blue no matter what. Neat blue again... But but... Let us stop complaining now. To tell you the true, I think the picture below does not make justice to the plate at all.
The color is indeed whiter and the flowers brighter than they seem unfortunately.
Throwing seemed as the easy way to go. Plate actually got a crack at the end and after burning, it was not as straight as desired. I liked the idea though. Color of choice: blue. When the h@ll does anybody want a blue plate for a cake really? But well, nothing wrong with the color in itself. Just cannot see it go together with any cake design.... But the real problem turned out to be the fact that it was too little. For an average smaller cake with icing on, the flowers get covered to half and there is not much of a border left.
Next try needed to have a smoother color. White would be a good start. And it will have to be larger. And I would have to try to make it stay "straight".
So: Thicker, with larger diameter and in porcelaine clay. And flowers on the border instead for on the plate itself.
Result: cracked but not too much, rather ok size and straight. Flowers little delicate so a few have been broken under usage, but well... White color got too thick on some spots, but who cares. BUT! Guess what... the only available underglaze was the blue one. So the flowers became blue no matter what. Neat blue again... But but... Let us stop complaining now. To tell you the true, I think the picture below does not make justice to the plate at all.
The color is indeed whiter and the flowers brighter than they seem unfortunately.
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