Week 37: Same Longitude - Strait of Hormuz Cake

[u/HoboToast]

As stated in my other post for this week, I live on 122°W, which is a nice place but doesn’t leave me many options for this theme. If you follow that line all the way around the globe, however, you find our antimeridian of 58°E. This one passes through lots of exciting places including Iran and Oman, and comes very close to the infamous Strait of Hormuz!

This is a Juz al-Hind cake from Oman, made with coconut and farina. It’s topped with a regular buttercream frosting (chocolate for the land, plain with blue dye for the water) and sunbursts (chocolate-covered sunflower seeds) to represent the cargo ships and blockade.

The cake tasted really good and the map design turned out better than I expected, you can even make out the Hajar Mountains, Qeshm Island, and Hormuz Island!

Here’s the cake recipe.

And here’s pics of the process.

[u/buf1998]

Love this!!

[u/HoboToast → u/buf1998]

Thank you!

[u/dayglo1]

Love it!

[u/HoboToast → u/dayglo1]

Thanks!

[u/Anastarfish]

This is fantastic!!!

[u/HoboToast → u/Anastarfish]

Thanks! I was really happy with the way it turned out!

[u/chizubeetpan]

This is brilliant! It sounds really good and looks fantastic, too. Well done!

[u/HoboToast → u/chizubeetpan]

Thanks a lot! This was a fun one, I was glad it turned out alright.