I was surfing flickr and saw this in the international cake competition:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/selbel2000/5155655214/sizes/l/in/set-72157625333850722/
Oh my God this is so amazing! I don't know how the fur is made...it looks like individual strands but I doesn't look like piped royal icing.

Wow - utterly amazing. Thanks for sharing -

That looks like perfection to me , I too wonder what they did to get it so precise?????

This slayes me. Stunning.

Wow! We have to hunt that person down and get them to show us how they did that!

This was from the Birmingham Cake International, it was so amazing to see in person. I couldn't figure out how it was done.

It didn't win 1st.. it came in 3rd...

These are the winners in that category

http://www.cake-craft.com/Cakegallery.aspx?CategoryID=114

Decorators name is Eun Sook Song. That is something else!

ssorry I loaded this twice somehow and don't see how to delete it...

all I can say is stunning!!! How DID THEY do that fur????????

Wow, amazing....

completely amazed!

If you click on the very first link to Flickr at the top of this post, once the photo loads, click on sebel2000 which appears next to the copyright notice. This will take you to the photographers Flickr site where she posted several photos from this cake show.

Oh my golly goodness! How on earth does one get that good? I'd have to live 200 years to cake like that!

Amazing

The Koreans won quite a few awards last year, beautiful and very detailed work

Anyone have a guess on how it was done?

it's looks like a better version of the grass tip.

IT looks amazing though

How the heck he didnt get first is beyond me! That is amazing!

My personal opinion is that cat beats the heck out of those other cakes, though they were NICE too!!!

Here is Lindy Smith's comment about this cake on her blog: "...but this one by Song Eun Sook was definitely the most impressive. It looked as if each piece of fur had been rolled by hand how long did that take?" Lindy Smith is someone who knows a lot about cake decorating - that's for sure.
Absolutely amazing technique!!!

O.M.G. I can't begin to imagine how that was done, or how long it took lol .

That is really amazing. My hand hurts just looking at it!!!

just been watching cake challenge on food network and they were doing Disney Pixar.

One man did Sulley out of Monsters Inc and he did his fir with a grass tip! it looked amazing but it feel backwards right on him oops

Wow that fur was amazing. I wonder if she piped it a strand at a time with a #1 tip????

I don't understand the one that won the gold, the chocolate dragon thing in the cake box. Huh? Oh well.

I think that it is gumpaste that has been extruded through the tiniest of holes and then individually rolled out and attached with tweezers. Lynn McKay does something very similar, although I havent ever seen her do it THAT tiny!!

It looks like clay to me also - although I would never have the patience to to do that. Amazing!!

Looks like a grass tip, or even a handmade multi-hole tip.

Years ago I was taught by an old pro cake decorator how to pipe using a hypodermic needle - that's commitment!! I can't imagine how long this took if the decorator used a needle method!!