This was my entry fro the Mizzou Cake Challenge 2011 judged by Duff Goldman. I did several things on this cake that I had never done before. I had never stacked a cake, worked with modeling chocolate or gumpaste, made flowers, leaves and ferns. I have never used the brushed gelatin nor had I ever used piping gel, royal icing or gold glaze. I didn't have a brick mat, so all those bricks are done by hand with a ball tool and then hand painted. All the hand painting is done with a vodka/amerigel color combination.

Everything on the cake is either a landmark of Mizzou or part of the Mizzou culture. I had never been to the Mizzou campus before the competition and I just worked off of pictures on the internet.