Help With A 3D Cardinal Cake...please
Decorating By brightbrats Updated 14 May 2007 , 3:18am by bethyboop
My niece is a huge Louisvile Cardinals basketball fan. So she is wanting me to make her babies first birthday cake. She comes up with the idea to make a 3d cardinal cake, and the smash cake a basketball.
I thought that would be cute. So know I need to come up with how to make the cardinal. I have the duck pan, do you guys think you could make the cardinal out of it, and it look right ? Or would anyone suggest something else ?
Any help at all would be great. Thanks.
I looked at a pic of a cardinal and one of the duck pan. The duck has a rounder chest and head than the cardinal. If you carved some on the duck and made a fondant or gumpaste section of tail feathers to lay behind the body, I think it could be pretty good. If you do, post pics! My mom loves cardinals and that would be a great b-day cake for her one year.
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Not sure how involved you want to be....I have a 3D falcon cake in my photos and used a simple stand to help me out. You could use almost the same idea as mine only instead of a tree stump you could do a basketball, and of course a cardinal instead of a falcon. I do not know how far you want to go with this idea though. 
Let me know if you'd like to try something like that.
i am convinced...doug you are a genius and a rock star all wrapped up into one. Though I have never personally asked for advice that has required your expertise, I sure save the information you give for future references. I also looked at your photos--holy moly, pattern jackpot! Thank you so much for sharing your brain with us!!!
Beth
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