Crud. So, my cake baker moved to Maryland and now she isn't answering my emails. It might just be a momentary blip, but just in case, we have a plan to make the cake ourselves. Luckily, it will be a rice crispy cake and therefore easy to make structurally. I have some experience decorating with icing, so I hope that I can put something together that won't look like it was made by a drunken marmoset. We are trying to keep it simple with plain white icing and decorations that can be made separately.

I couldn't find marzipan anywhere that wasn't already as hard as a rock, and I don't trust myself with fondant, and so the decorations were made from Fimo clay. The figures were inspired by the penguin habitat in the back of our reception venue. There are 32 penguins total. There are 24 on the first layer, 6 on the second and two slightly larger ones on top.


One of the penguin groupings:


Our top of the cake figures; I plan on gluing a little veil on the shorter one:

posted by Alison 8/21/2007 09:17:00 AM : (0) comments : splink