These are the cakes I just did for my twins birthday party last night. Took me 3 days. I let my daughter do some of the trim works and lettering. We both need more practice on the penmanship. The lion head is hand made from a composite sugar paste and fondant., backed by a fondant covered cake board cut to the shape of the figure. It is then hand painted with edible paint. Everyone that saw it thought it was "way cool". The other cake is a water polo ball made of chocolate, white chocolate colored orange(school color) over milk chocolate. I made a ball of a balloon covered in paper mache, and then brushed it with and dipped it in the chocolates. I broke the balloon when it was dry, but left it in because the paper mache was starting to crack the sides of the ball. The hand is a rubber glove wrapped in gum paste. It was sort of creepy to look at before it got on the cake. Everyone kept saying it looked like a severed hand left to dry. :P Buttercream icing and sugar glitter, and sparkler candles(not shown) topped them off. TFL