This was a crazy cake I made last year in a class by Marina Sousa and Dawn Nemec during the Oklahoma State Sugar Art Show. This was my first (and, so far, only) class and it was also Marina and Dawn's first class to teach. I loved every second of it, although I did not have enough time (in two days) to finish my cake. Their original design had a cup of coffee hanging off the top of the box and the whole thing was supposed to be just covered with all kinds of sweet treats. Since this was a two-day class and people had traveled to OSSAS from all over the country (actually, there was even one Canadian), the parts that would have been real cake are styrofoam.

We made the ice cream cone from gumpaste and the ice cream is chocolate that we forced to seize with a tiny bit of water, then stirred in dried cranberries. That was cool!

The blueberry pie -- mine was a disaster -- was all hand-rolled fondant blueberries covered with piping gel dyed blue.

My favorite thing was the marzipan fig. I obsessed over it way too long. It was also fun to make the little tarts and saucers.

This is the best photo (sorry so crummy) I ended up with and I snapped this in the hotel just before I dismantled the entire thing.