knowing I rely WAY to heavily on the gumpaste flowers to make a cake look good, I have a new resolution to try other things more regularly. I saw a cake similar to this one @ the MACS and just loved it - and since I have friends whose anniversary is today (St. Patrick's Day) I thought I would make something that did NOT use gumpaste (I went into a little withdrawal, but i had some icing and am feeling better now). You can't see the writing in the photo, but on top it reads "happy anniversary to ewe"
Oh how gorgeous! They look so fluffy! And I love the green colour you've used.
That is the cutest thing!! I want to pick up the sheep on top and hug him!
{but then I'd have to eat him!}
Deanna
I think the cake is adorable! I too am trying to limit fondant. It's hard to find a balance between the cost of my "time" vs the cost of fondant. It just seems to take me longer to do stuff in bc than it does fondant. I saw someone posted that this would make a cute baby shower cake...I agree!
That is absolutely adorable!!!
I wanted to do a sheep cake I saw in the latest Sugarcraft magazine for a retirement party - but my plans got messed up and I had to do a straight buttercream/floral design. Ugh.
I think I actually like yours better than the one in the magazine. Good job!!!
This is super precious... you did a wonderful job and the wording you used is sooo cute. The colors are wonderful! Happy St. Patrick's Day!
I'm not sure what it is about this one, I think it is the expression on the sheep's face, but seriously, every time I walk past my dining room (where the cake is right now) I look at the little guy and laugh.
I'm so glad I did this. I am trying to get into a class at a local cooking school for basic piping skills, but it is hard to do (fills up quickly). I'm determined to get better at the icing work.
how did you do the sheep??
I absolulty love this cake.
Now that's just brilliant! 
Great job on the BC - I may have to borrow this idea for Easter. 
Glad I checked back!
making the sheep:
The one on top is a wad of fondant strengthened with gumtex (I would have made it out of gumpaste, but I didn't have time). I just made an "egg" shape out of the fondant mixture (it is about the size of an egg also). I stuck 4 pieces of licorace root to act as feet (you could use anything really). the head is a smaller wad fondant mixture shaped into a smaller egg. That I stuck a toothpick in so I'd be able to put it on the body.
I let the the two eggs of fondant mixture dry for about an hour in a flower former to keep the rounded shape (just long enough that it would keep its shape), then shoved the head in via the toothpick. I let it sit for a few more hours on its feet (note: if I had time, I would have done this and let it dry 100% before piping on the buttercream. The thing to remember is that you want to keep the shape slightly smaller (and the legs slightly longer) than you think you want them to be, b/c the "wool" will add quite a bit of bulk (and start to hide the feet)
The rest is easy - I just coated the face and the legs with black buttercream (again - if I had the time to plan this, I would have made the face out of black gumpaste and/or white gumpaste and painted it black). Then I used a small star tip to pipe the "wool" with white buttercream. don't forget a tail! and after I piped the wool on, I added ears with the black buttercream. I let it set up until the buttercream had hardened and moved it to the cake top (only had to fix a spot or two - but you'd never notice with this type of figure - "wool" is very forgiving)
For the sheep on the side, I divided the cake into 6 segments (well, mentally, I did) and marked where the center of each sheep would be. I knew I'd be putting grass underneath, so the sheep really are in the middle of the sides of the cake.
I just used the star tip to pipe a cloud shaped pile of "wool" and then used the black buttercream (a small writing tip is the only thing I used for all the black buttercream) to pipe the faces (I just piped it, dampened my finger, and smooshed the faces down to smooth them). Gave it a few minutees to set up, then piped a mound of "wool" on the tops of the little heads, small dots on the faces for the white of the eyes, then smaller dots for the black part of the eyes (again - had I planned in advance, I'd have done the eyes with gumpaste cutouts, but only b/c those won't bleed color like black frosting can).
The rest was easy - just used the grass tip, obviously, to pipe buttercream grass around their feet (oh - I piped the grassy circle on top BEFORE I put the sheep in place).
If these don't make sense to anyone, feel free to PM me if you have a question.
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