American Baker in Germany

 This cake was a commission. I haven't had a commission in so long that I was really excited to make it. This ended up the most epic cake I have ever made. So excited about it! They wanted a Disney themed cake with lots of different films featured, but they specifically wanted Tarzan and Lion King on it as well as lots of princesses. This was for their daughter's birthday. Even though she couldn't have a party this year, she really wanted a nice cake. I made a list of possible films I could feature on the cake and eventually chose 10: Lion King, Tarzan, Snow White, Sleeping Beauty, Beauty and the Beast, The Little Mermaid, Cinderella, Frozen, Moana, and Rapunzel. I made a few sketches before I began, although I ended up changing my mind later, but this was part of the creative process. I modeled a shoe out of gum paste and covered it with white luster dust so it sparkled a bit. Cinderella's shoe. I also modeled a red apple with a brown stem and a bit out of one side. Sn...

 In case you hadn't noticed, I'm not the best modeller in the world. So, I only make simple figures.  I wanted to model a Sleeping Beauty figure. Princess Aurora has a very distinctive dress. So that's really what I decided to concentrate on. I started out with some pink fondant that I added some tylo powder to. The tylo powder is important. Or, you can use gum paste, but fondant alone will be too soft and won't keep the form that you want. Then I colored some of it a bit deeper pink so we have two tones of pink. I took some of the lighter pink and rolled it into a thick sausage. I cut the bottom flat and tapered it slightly toward the top. Then cut it into a V. Then, using the deeper pink, I rolled it into another sausage, rolled a dip into the middle to create a waist and cut the bottom into an inverted V so it fit just right into the skirt. Then I pressed the top to be a bit flatter and cut the top into a very shallow V. Then, using the lighter pink, I rolled out a z...