Nativity Cake - O Holy Night
This is a cake I've been wanting to make for a while. I really believe very strongly that the birth of Christ is sometimes forgotten in the hectic commercialism of Christmas. So, I decided I really wanted to make a nativity Christmas cake. But we didn't really need more cake to eat around the holidays, so I decided to make this lovely cake on a cake dummy. This is also my first attempt at modelling people. The first thing I did was combine all of my blue fondants and cover my 8 inch square cake dummy with it. I stuck it down with edible glue. If you don't know what a cake dummy is, it's a piece of styrofoam the same size as a layer of cake. It is often used by bakeries for their window decorations. It can also be used in between layers to add more stability or on the top of a cake for something precariously perched on the top of a cake where real cake would be too heavy. Then I modelled the faces, or rather the heads of my three figures. I am making Mary, Joseph...