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Let me tell you a tale of good customer service.

 

It was my birthday recently. My boyfriend, under enourmous pressure, realised that what I really, really wanted was some gem molds. 

 

Cake from Racing Car cake pan
This lady uses a car cake pan (in this case the wilton racing car pan) to make the cake shape, then covers it with sugarpaste.

If you really want a car shaped cake then this is the easiest way to do that, although a dedicated car shaped pan is a bit of a luxury.

Have you ever had one of those moments when you feel as though something is wrong, but you're not sure what? 

Picture of the underside of cakes

I was standing in line at the coffee shop the other day, when I had that feeling, an uncomfortable feeling. I felt slightly embarrased by something but I couldn't put my finger on what.

 

Completed Standing up Christmas tree

I know, Christmas is a long way away, but I had some icing, and this seemed like an easy pilot project for 3D Royal Icing construction.

First I drew out the design:

Covered cake

Covering a cake with sugarpaste gives you a beautiful, flat, smooth surface to work on, plus you can use all sorts of effects in the sugarpaste to add interest to your blank slate.

Browsing the web, I found http://fimocrazy.blogspot.com/2006/01/tropical-flawer-totorial.html and I thought that if this could be done with polymer clay, why not with icing.

 

It was getting on for the evening, and I didn't have any sugarpaste hanging around, just marzipan but I was desparate to give it a go.

 

Giddy with success from the Butterfly Panel Mark II I decided to try something else.

Finished Blossom Panel

I wasn't happy with the original Butterfly Panel so I thought I'd try again as I loved the picture.

Light Shining through Butterfly Royal Icing Panel Mark II

 

The chocolate animation cell is all very well, but working with warm chocolate is a pain, so I thought I'd give it all a go with Royal Icing.