Grain Silo

Our company has worked closely with the developers and the people on site who are re-modeling this historic grain elevator into the Zeitz MOCAA Museum (Museum of Contemporary African Art) at the Victoria and Alfred Waterfront in Cape Town. Some links: V&A Waterfront shipwreck newspaper article, artillery shells, info on the grain elevator and the picture I worked from.

It was a challenge I set myself to try and 're-build' the main building of the grain silo in cookies. The cake was just there to support the cookies 

Wow you must be very proud I hope everyone reads your added attachments it explains the significance of the silo I feel you have honored the project and the hard work everyone has put into the Zeitz Mocca Museum of contemporary African art I have a question for you what was the findings of the ship were you able to date it and did you find interesting artifacts on board and if so were any of them  Museum worthy

Oh Liesbet!  Amazing. Everyone must've been awed by your creation.

Anne Marie Adams posted:

Wow you must be very proud I hope everyone reads your added attachments it explains the significance of the silo I feel you have honored the project and the hard work everyone has put into the Zeitz Mocca Museum of contemporary African art I have a question for you what was the findings of the ship were you able to date it and did you find interesting artifacts on board and if so were any of them  Museum worthy

haai Anne Marie, thank you for your nice comment. The ship is being looked at and there might be some interesting results. There were mostly cannon balls on board and other elements which are not clear yet (they look like wooden architectural elements which were 'copied' in metal at the beginning of the transition to cast iron). The thinking at the moment is that maybe the ship was scuttled (with the iron canon balls as weights to keep it down) or at least beached in the surf on its side (the frames were much better preserved on the one side where on the other side they were eaten away by worms and 'eroded' by wave action).

pip posted:

Oh Liesbet!  Amazing. Everyone must've been awed by your creation.

Thank you Pip!

I don't know if they appreciated it. I made it for a lunch party with some of the site people, but they cancelled last minute so I took it to site since it was made. Sadly, I never heard back from them. I think non-cookiers have no idea how much time cookies can take. I guess this one doesn't seem all that complex, but it took me a lot of time to work out the correct sizes and to get the shadows. 

Maybe I should have put something in the picture to give an indication of the size of the cake. It is about 30 cm long.

Thank you for the story behind this post. You did an amazing job!

Yep! Amazing job

Very well done!

Wow!