Floral Cornucopia
French vanilla cake with chocolate SMBC and brown sugar SMBC trim and filled with Chocolate Irish Creme Mousse. Flowers are RI and fruit is my homemade marzipan. I cheated on the cornucopia basket and it has a gumpaste base with the RI added. Didn't trust myself to do just RI basketweave.
WOW How on earth did you make the cornucopia basket?
I'm with Mladyfred... Give on the Cornucopia... Aspiring extreme newbies are in Awe! :o I was wondering if there was a way to carve one, but haven't even had the time to think about it... Maybe next year! Awesome...just Awesome...
OK, here it is. I bought a cheap basket at HL and wrapped it in foil and then gumpaste and let it dry enough to remove it and then let it dry completely. Then after about a week, I did the RI basketweave. There was another one last week with total RI which I really don't know how they did it after the trouble I had. I started on the small end and had a heck of a time adding ribs. Next time think I would start at the big end.I did about half of it and let it dry before continuing.