The most important cake I've made. Not the flashiest. Not the most technically challenging. But my favourite, for obvious reasons. It's exactly as I wanted it. OK, IF I'd been more prepared and had had more time, I could have made the pattern on the tallit (prayer shawl around the base) more intricate. But my son and I love this cake. It's very 'old school' - it has a traditional feel to it, rather than being a novelty cake that's just happens to be on the occasion of a Bar Mitzvah, if you know what I mean? The skullcap on the top is a copy of the new ones we bought for my sons and husband to wear yesterday (except theirs was black with a blue pattern and I did this one in blue). Huge thanks to cakesbytatiana.blogspot.com for allowing me to base this on her original design.