My niece told me what she wanted beginning of last year….. An ART
based cake. I thought of a design then a month after I found out a cake
designer I admire greatly (who didn’t know anything about what I had
thought of ) had just created something similar and hers was awesome. I
was happy that I was thinking along the same line but I didn’t want to
do my design anymore, wanted to do something different.
That was it I had a design block on this one. Left it, did other
cakes, went to Melbourne for a holiday, still didn’t know what to do,
Got back from Melbourne, became sick( flu and sinus) still thinking of
what to do. Baked the cakes just in case I wouldn’t have enough time.
Three days before it was due I sort of had a vague idea and kind of
developed on it. Literally after two sleepless nights, working through
the day and night and getting frustrated and crying in between (oooops…)
because one of the legs was curving and breaking( ‘cos I didn’t allow
enough time for it to dry before attaching), had to redo the legs again
:-) and the dress was tearing ( tooo hot in Sydney and the fondant was
getting too soft), had to redo the dress again!!!. Wasn’t very happy
with the detailed finish and the proportions, but didn’t have the time
to fix it. Okay … Okay enough of my SOB story boring you to bits …....
:-), this is what I came up with in the end :-)
“A chubby little artist doll being very messy trying to draw and
putting paint everywhere, even inside the cake, not being very happy
with her drawing and throwing everything she has drawn and holding onto
the ones she likes”.
My niece loved it, kept hugging me and thanking me at the party and
got an email from her this morning too . That made my day and well
worth all my sob story.
She stands about 45cm high with her body made of Vegetarian Chocolate cake and the cushion seat made of plain butter cake.
Thank you so much for looking and for your wonderful support.
