To the MOON, Mary Poppins

[bunsen_h]

All day, Jane had been wandering around in a gloom, ever since Mary Poppins had stopped her from making the cupcake full of solid nitroglycerine.  Not actually crying, but depressed, her mouth set in a bit of a frown.

Suddenly, an idea came to Michael.  He found Jane, who just looked at him — she was upset that he hadn't taken her side.

"D'you think..." he started.  "Do you think, if we put fins on it, it would fly?"

After a moment, she smiled, just a bit.

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Sometimes the dreams are weird.  And sometimes they wake me up, because... hmm.

An ice-cream cone cup, classic truncated-cone shape.  Filled with meringue with a conical peak.  Three or four fins at the bottom, made of vanilla wafer, glued on with royal icing.  And a type-D model rocket engine inserted through a hole in the bottom.  It would work.  Probably.

"Cake Canaveral".

Edible rocketry.  This is definitely Muppet Labs material.

(Solid nitroglycerine is not very safe, if it's actually crystalline nitro.  When it's solid because it's adsorbed onto an inert material such as clay, that's dynamite, which is somewhat less unsafe; thank you, Mr. Nobel.  What my dream was calling "solid nitroglycerine" was actually some kind of black-powder substance.  It would burn quickly, but not detonate.)
 

Comments

[beable]

And it also makes sense for Mary Poppins, in a weird sorta way!

[pameladean]

Best LJ subject line of some reasonably long length of time!

P.

[ambiviolent.livejournal.com]

I humbly beg you, please make this thing. For all humanity.

You are the right person, with the right skills, at the right time.

[bunsen-h.livejournal.com]

I was thinking that I might request Cheflad's assistance, depending on the weight of a cone full of meringue. It might be necessary to make the thing hollow, in which case his piping skills would probably be very helpful.

I don't know where I might buy type-D model rocket engines these days. I still have some As or Bs from when I was a teenager.

[ambiviolent.livejournal.com]

I think ChefCat would be eager to assist you. I recall him making confectionery siege engines with unholy glee when we made the castle for AmbiBro's wedding.

[henrytroup.livejournal.com]

Meringue (aka sucrose aerogel ;-) is pretty light. I'm unclear about which way up the cone faces. Variant would be two cones, open faces together to approximate the V2 shape. And I want a glace cherry nose cone.

[bunsen-h.livejournal.com]

Truncated cone on the bottom, opening upwards, filled with meringue which comes to a conical peak making the nose cone of the rocket. Fins attached to the sides of the ice cream cone, pointing downwards, with the engine inserted in a hole through the flat bottom of the ice cream cone.

A glace cherry nose tip might be feasible. It occurred to me last night that the best way of getting a well-shaped symmetrical meringue nose cone might be to make a mould out of waxed paper, and filling it with meringue, letting it dry out, then attaching it to the ice cream cone. I could put a carefully-shaped bit of cherry in the mould to begin with.