After a while though I had three orders.....one for 5 cakes on Thursday and 2 on Saturday (+ cupcakes for the ones on Saturday).
This week I'm doing:
- Eid Mubarak (end of Ramadan celebration)
- Baby shower and
- A Strawberry Shortcake birthday cake.
The Eid Mubarak order had a very tight budget and requested flowers on the cakes (the order was also confirmed 1 day before the delivery date). I feel that this was a bit of a rush job unfortunately, but I think it turned out OK.....and I made the flowers myself!!!
For Saturday I had a baby shower order - luckily not toooo intricate. Bur yes - it had to serve 30 people, so my poor husband quickly had to make a plan how to transfer the fondant to the cake as my rolling pin is way to short for such a huge piece of fondant!
Luckily we had some pvc pipe in the garage, so after cutting and washing it - voila - works wonderful!!
The other cake for Saturday was a Strawberry Shortcake one. The pic the parents of the birthday girl send me had a plastic Strawberry Shortcake doll on top - so I was quite relaxed........until I found that Strawberry Shortcake is UNATTAINABLE in South Africa at the moment. I called about 15 stores - without success.
So I had to model ms. Strawberry Shortcake (ieeee - I've only modelled animals before).
I made two dolls - the first one fell apart (jay - it looked awful!!!).
The second one was better - so it landed on the cake...
No 'hat-hair' underneath!
No exact replica of Strawberry Shortcake - but I think it looks very nice.
I'll need to practise my sculpting skills if I want my sugar paste people to look exactly like the person they are representing!!
Well - we'll see what this weekend holds!!
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