Fabulously Fierce

I have been very laggy about keeping up with my cake class blogs.  My current course is Fondant and Gumpaste and last night was the last class, so I guess it’s really no longer current…Anyway, I missed the first class because I was on a much needed vacation cruising the Caribbean with my husband and our friends Angry and Jeff. The second class I totally cheated and covered some Styrofoam in fondant because I was too lazy to make a cake.  I didn’t even take pictures that night.  Last week we learned how to make daisies, carnations and the “fantasy flower” (which is basically a flower that doesn’t exist in nature).  I loved the little daisies, they were simple and fun to make.  The carnations were a bit more challenging, but I liked the results.  And the fantasy flower I despised at first, but it has grown on me and I now think it may be my favorite.  Well…second favorite, the rose is still my #1. I didn’t take any pictures of those either, but they’re still sitting on my kitchen counter.

Moving on.

Last night was the final class and again we had free reign to make whatever we wanted as long as it included some of the flowers we learned to make.  It took me awhile to decide on a design.  I tend to always lean toward the dark side of things: skulls, black, etc.  But I didn’t want to do more skulls because I did that for my last cake.  I figured I would step slightly out of the box and do something with pink (SHOCKER!). I looked around the interwebs for some inspiration and finally came up with my concept.  I spent Wednesday night making a bunch of pink gumpaste flowers so they would have time to harden before class. I showed up to class armed with my white fondant covered champagne cake (I skipped all the coconut crap and used a buttercream frosting instead), black fondant and my plethora of flowers ready to concur.

It took me an hour and a half to kneed, roll out, cut and “glue” all of the zebra stripes onto the side of the cake. Then I added the daisies to the top, piped some pink icing around the bottom border and finished it off with the big ass pink fantasy flower right in the center.  I freakin LOVE how it turned out.  It’s so girly, yet still so me.