Basketball Cake

Basketball Cake on Cake Central

The score board is rice krispy treats covered in black fondant with fondant, royal icing and modeling chocolate for letters and numbers. Secured to the vertical cake board with white chocolate.

Backboard is white fondant trimmed in red fondant.

The basketball is chocolate cake covered in dyed burnt orange fondant with black fondant for the stripes.

Net is white fondant, need to work on this technique...the net lasted exactly two minutes after this photo was taken before disintegrating. Would love some suggestions on this from fellow decorators here. I tried it with a thick rolled fondant and the weight pulled it down...this version was very thinly rolled out to counter the weight issue but still just tore apart.

Floor boards were made by combining three colors of light to brown fondant, rolled out to a wood look, and then scored to create the look of boards.

Thanks to many friends for suggestions on the structural elements. And thank you to the guys for giving me direction on the type of wood to buy for the base and how to position the vertical cakeboard on the base for the greatest stability. Made a hammock type structure to support the cake to the vertical Cake board. There are two dowel rods coming out from the board, I have mesh netting covered in fondant strung between the dowels. The dowels and net are supporting the cake and the cake board is tilted back at an 80 degree angle to assist with keeping the cake to the board. And thank you to Zoe for always being a great helper and confidence builder.

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