40Th Birthday Cake

This was made for my cousin's 40th birthday. It's a white coconut mud cake covered in white ganache and fondant. The photos are scanned and copied onto icing sheets and then attached to the fondant, the frames are royal icing, painted with silver dust, mixed with alcohol. The hibiscus are made with modelling paste and then dusted red.

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Comments (28)

ozcake on 23 Sep 2006 , 11:37pm

I love the hibiscus flowers they look fantastic, we have heaps of hibiscus bushes up here in Coffs

missnnaction on 10 Sep 2006 , 6:42am

Beautiful!!!

heychele on 10 Sep 2006 , 6:09pm

THIS IS ABSOLUTELY BEAUTIFUL!

rayven on 11 Sep 2006 , 12:17am

Fran, you did a fabulous job on this cake as usual!! I love it!

DaniD on 18 Sep 2006 , 4:17am

What are icing sheets? This cake is beautiful and I'm making a 75th bday cake for my grandmother and love this.

franjmc on 18 Sep 2006 , 5:20am

DaniD, icing sheets are very thinly rolled fondant with a plastic backing that can be printed on using a computer printer and edible inks, check out the kopy kake website, they have all the info

SilkwoodStudios on 10 Sep 2006 , 4:42am

so well done, i have had an idea like this bouncing around in my head just waiting for somebody to talk in to it, thanks,

eriksmom on 10 Sep 2006 , 4:43am

What a fabulous cake! Your flowers look so real! :D

baker4life on 10 Sep 2006 , 4:47am

Such an elegant cake!!! Excellent job on the flowers & the rest of the cake!!! :D I wouldn't want to eat it!

sugartopped on 10 Sep 2006 , 4:57am

wow!! very beautiful!

imartsy on 24 Oct 2006 , 4:02pm

wow those flowers are gorgeous! and what a pretty and elegant cake!

dub on 10 May 2007 , 6:47am

omg this cake is gorgous, love it love it love it, oh did i mention i love it?

suzyqqq27 on 23 Jun 2007 , 3:03pm

Wonderful cake - you did a fabulous job on the flowers!

indigojods on 9 Jul 2007 , 11:09pm

wow! just spectacular!