Who wants to see my pretty pretty princess cake?

[sabotabby]

Miss Lynx is having a princess party because we're grownups and we can do things like that now, so I baked a ridonkulous cake. I want to post it to FB but I don't want her to see it yet, and while she has a DW, she never checks it, so I think I am safe posting it here.

It is not as structurally sound as I want it to be, on account of I thought I would use good jam that was tasty, rather than cheap-ass jam, but it turns out the cheap jam does a much better job of holding cake together. Oh well. Fondant covers a multitude of sins. I'd like to get a bit faster with sculpting so that I can get a better face without worrying that it will dry out, but not bad for a first attempt at a person-cake?













Here it is before I painted it. Like a Greek statue, it looked far less tacky, but I was going for tacky:




 

Comments

[ironed_orchid]

OMG!

I was expecting a pretty cake in lots of pink, but that is an edible sculpture and it is amazing!

[sabotabby]

I'm too messy to do pretty well. Sculpture with watercolour painting is actually easier for me than, say, piping, which I have never learned how to do properly.

There's something called a Princess Cake that's from Sweden, and I contemplated making one, but the birthday girl does not like marzipan, so I opted for this.

[ironed_orchid]

P.S I got the Greek statue joke.

[sabotabby]

*relieved*