This is my 1st shaped cake and I'm very pleased with the outcome.

Thanks for all the wonderful comments. To answer a couple of questions...this is a shaped cake that I cut myself from a 4 layer square of vanilla cake and butter cream. I used a smaller block of cake to shape the head and attached it with a wooden dowel. It's covered with chocolate fondant and all the do-dads are 50/50 fondant and gumpaste. I painted the tabby stripes with paste food colour and the gold on the bell is actually real gold dust. The only inedible things are the whiskers and the dowel.