Military Retirement Cake

This cake was for the retirement ceremony of a U. S. Air Force Major. Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity is represented.

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Hi there!  Great cake!  Would you share how you did the emblem and flag? I am assuming fondant?  Thanks in advance.

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Hi abdevoss.  Thanks!  The USAF seal is an edible image that I ordered online.  I baked a large sugar cookie and covered it with white fondant, then applied the sugar sheet/edible image.  It was my first time using one on fondant and I added too much water.  Lesson learned, I only need enough to make the fondant slightly sticky.  It caused the image to wrinkle up and colors to bleed but not as noticeable after it all dried.  Then, I rolled out two long pieces of fondant to twist together for the rope and painted it with gold dust. You're right, the flag is just fondant.  I used red strips spaced out on a white background.  I added some black to the red to make it darker because the American flag does not have tomato red stripes :)