Final final cake

I've been saving this (read: too lazy to write up a post) for awhile. The final cake for the Wilton Gumpaste and Fondant course.

That's real cake under all that fondant and gumpaste. I'd meant to use a dummy cake, but it was more expensive to get a bunch of styrofoam circles and glue, so I ended up cheating and buying a cake at the grocery store at the last minute. Scrape off the horrible balloons and border, cover with powder blue fondant and voila! the foundation for the final course cake.

I wanted to make the favour box with a drape coming out of it and daisies spilling all over. The centre of the daisies are coated in sanding sugar, giving it this great sparkle. Learnt that trick from my cake teacher.

The bottom border was a mess. It took me so long to roll out a rope of fondant that it started to dry and crack. Again, I cheated - I didn't have a rope quite long enough to go all around the cake, but the drape hid that.

A friend said it looks like an Ascot hat. Can't say I disagree (^_^)