The Great Eorzean Cook-Off Contest (EU) - Entry Thread

Gather the Mats!
http://img2.finalfantasyxiv.com/acci...5a08a4974f.jpg
After a little prep work, pan fry the ginger crusted mirror apples and glaze that popoto cake with maple syrup to golden brown crispness
http://img2.finalfantasyxiv.com/acci...646afbb773.jpg
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Start the assmbley
http://img2.finalfantasyxiv.com/acci...c6631af4b4.jpg
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Add a little detail..
http://img2.finalfantasyxiv.com/acci...31be337e11.jpg
Ta-daaa! Aldgoat Fillet Steak served with Ginger Crusted Mirror Apples, Maple syrup Glazed Popoto Cake, Rich Tomato Relish and garnished with Vegetable Spaghetti and Edible Chocobo Feather

crud....didnt think I'd have to actualy write the deets on paper and take a photo of that >.> I made 2, was gonna take another picture, turns out my mom and sister already ate it

Looks amazing and really delicious! Great work, and very creative!

Dish name: Moogle Cake
Character name: Varro Tigurius
World name: Hyperion

My first attempt at actually decorating a cake, if anything I think I invented a new style of grass for cake decorating based on modeling flock...

The cake batter:
http://img2.finalfantasyxiv.com/acci...8f0c31d6bd.jpg


And the baked cakes. I didn't have any half sphere tins, however Pyrex style bowls seemed to do the trick:
http://img2.finalfantasyxiv.com/acci...fd5fc4a4fd.jpg

My inspired grass:
http://img2.finalfantasyxiv.com/acci...f1c625402c.jpg

Getting there...
http://img2.finalfantasyxiv.com/acci...da275b5069.jpg

And Finished!
http://img2.finalfantasyxiv.com/acci...9426fbe71e.jpg

Dish name: Combustible Cake
Character name: Oniguro Nekomataya
World name: Leviathan

Cake ingredients:
http://i.imgur.com/oyrnaA0.jpg


Decoration materials and jam for the filling:
http://i.imgur.com/KOdQrDS.jpg


The finished dish:
http://i.imgur.com/B8e2DQ0.jpg


And finally, eating the cake!
http://i.imgur.com/4JQ7WU0.jpg

Name of Dish: The Striking Tree(Cake)
Character Name: Fairy Tails
World: Tonberry

All the ingredients! Although I forgot to include my cooking chocolate for this photo, sorry!
http://img2.finalfantasyxiv.com/acci...f646f8342b.jpg
Making my raspberry sauce!
http://img2.finalfantasyxiv.com/acci...5ea80fb7e0.jpg
Cut out Ramuh and his arbiters' from gingerbread dough and painted him with dark chocolate ^^.
http://img2.finalfantasyxiv.com/acci...aeb66698d0.jpg
Gingerbread Ramuh attacks your mouth with pop rocks when you're least expecting it!
http://img2.finalfantasyxiv.com/acci...5cd31d1f45.jpg
Ramuh summons his arbiters and little Rydia falls to the electricity damage!
http://img2.finalfantasyxiv.com/acci...7a8d732eaa.jpg

started out gathering the ingredients for the cake
http://img2.finalfantasyxiv.com/acci...fe13169c04.jpg

the two cakes for the head/body
http://img2.finalfantasyxiv.com/acci...42900178f3.jpg

fresh made buttercream and strawberry, and some rolling fondant at the side
http://img2.finalfantasyxiv.com/acci...b142baba8e.jpg

one freshly filled moogle head! :D
http://img2.finalfantasyxiv.com/acci...7482e0a9a1.jpg

and the final result!! <3 <3
http://img2.finalfantasyxiv.com/acci...4685f9925a.jpg

Dish name: Strawberry Moogle-Cake
Character name: Dixie Moose
World name: Phoenix

Title: Pink King Moggle Mog
Character name: Kurai Kyo
World name: Moogle

http://i.imgur.com/3xfxTrB.jpg
Omnomnom. Cake dough!

http://i.imgur.com/OXVkuoW.jpg
Cake filling :3 "Vanilla Beans" Pudding and "Rolanberry" Jam.

http://i.imgur.com/8ME6n3Z.jpg
The making of Pink King Moggle Mog...

http://i.imgur.com/nDRjBFS.jpg
Uh oh there, Moogle! Don't eat the vanilla cupcakes!

http://i.imgur.com/oRKmyu1.jpg
Pink King's seven little helpers :D

http://i.imgur.com/wxRmqik.jpg
Finished!

Title: Pink King Moggle Mog
Character name: Kurai Kyo
World name: Moogle

Name of Dish: Cup-Buncle
Character Name: Bastet Moonrise
World: Ragnarok

I made up two types of Cup-Buncle, a sweet emerald one and a salted topaz one.

Sweet ingredients
http://img2.finalfantasyxiv.com/acci...3596f95b29.jpg

Salted ingredients
http://img2.finalfantasyxiv.com/acci...bdb37a6f77.jpg

Sweet ones in the oven
http://img2.finalfantasyxiv.com/acci...d8d5c57853.jpg

Salted ones in the oven
http://img2.finalfantasyxiv.com/acci...5b40a68825.jpg

Tails and ears as salted/sweet shortcrust pastry
http://img2.finalfantasyxiv.com/acci...fb751fe5a8.jpg


And the final result, the Cup-Buncle \^^/
http://img2.finalfantasyxiv.com/acci...55e64501cf.jpg

Name of dish: Frosted Primal Cookies
Character name: Venoel Xaun
World: Tonberry

Cut out and frosted 4 sugar cookies to look like Ifrit, Garuda, Good King Moogle Mog XIII, and Titan

First creamed the butter and sugar and then added eggs and vanilla essence
http://i.gyazo.com/053fd4ea7be65e89cc451644f4bb0f2e.png
Added the dry ingredients. Flour, salt, and baking powder.
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After chilling the dough , I roll it out and cut out the individual shapes then baked tem.
http://i.gyazo.com/73e2324f61f7791e5f5feb34b2be186e.png
Once the cookies were cool, I started frosting them using icing and a wooden skewer to help with the details.
http://i.gyazo.com/1e87f943f00cc784043c9d45207f1872.png
In progress shot of icing garuda
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All done :)
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