Sunday, April 29, 2012

Favorite Things

This is perhaps one of the most intricate cakes that I have ever made. Total logged time for making this cake was 30 hours!  All in all, I was pleased with the effect and most glad on how it turned out. At first, I was pretty perplexed on how to go about the "sack" and was nervous about carving it. I also had to test the sack texture by trying to mark on some extra rolled fondant. Painting the sack was the only option to achieve the brown, worn look.

Without having to really say anything, this cake speaks volumes about the couple. Both are lawyers who doted on their dog (labrador at the bottom). Coffee is a significant part of the bride's life while the groom loves his roosters (top layer - rooster's house at the back of the couple with small sugar rooster beside the bride).  

cake height was 4 feet 

 sack texture 

view from the front 

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