Nicole And Adam's Engagement Cake
8 inch and 6 inch round family-recipe fruitcake, with ivory rolled fondant and black ribbon. Moulded gumpaste/fondant pearls with snowflake lustre dust. Roses and peonies are hand-moulded gumpaste in red and ivory (plus GP green rose petals!) Tortured willow twigs are paper-tape covered florists wire. Additional fine silver ribbon loops for accents. Thanks for looking :-)
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Echidna
The short-beaked echidna is the native Australian "spiny ant-eater", and is a unique egg-laying mammal and monotreme. This life-sized cake depicting an echidna looking for termites on a log is made from a carved light fruit cake, and is covered with coloured fondants and 600 individually hand-rolled and coloured gumpaste quills. Inside the log are some hand-moulded termites, and surrounding it are GP eucalyptus leaves. This cake won 2nd prize for "Most Creative Cake" at the 2009 Sydney Royal Easter Show.
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Beginner's Cake Decorating Course Final Cake Project
This is an 8 inch home baked dark fruit cake, covered in rolled fondant, and gumpaste/fondant triple garrett frilled skirt in three graduated colours of pink. Gold and fuschia accent bows and royal icing piping. Top is an arrangement of hand-moulded gumpaste roses, buds and leaves, jasmine filler flowers and buds and gold ribbon accents.