Yea it turns out this is one thing I just have an innate knack for. These are the only three cakes I've made and I'm still surprised by it. I'm strangely intrigued by the idea of making my first foray into fondant genitalia.
Did you do all those flowers in the first one by hand? It's beautiful!
Wow those are impressive! You could be like a wedding cake decorator. My mom used to decorate cakes for my birthdays when I was a kid. I tried a few times and I think the extent of my ability is icing a double-layered circular cake with one solid color coating. That's about it. Those designs are incredible. I never understood how cake designers make such perfect strokes. Whenever I mess up with icing, it ends up ruining the cake entirely. Reminds me of a time I had a brain fart while spelling some letters on a cake and tried to redo it and made the whole thing look 10 times worse. Need cake icing white-out.
Re: Did you do all those flowers in the first one by hand? It's beautiful!
For the flowers I used this little mold thing that you put the fondant in between the two sides and then press out the shapes, but yea, each flower had to be done one at a time. It was ridiculously time-consuming but it was for a good cause. That was actually the first cake I ever made (aside from regular birthday cakes) and it was the first time I used fondant. Now I just make my own because it's easier to work with and it tastes a whole lot better. It's all really just trial and error and figuring out the best way to fix mistakes without them showing, heh. At some point with every cake, I seriously reach a point where I consider just scrapping it and pretending I never tried to make it in the first place, but it works out in the end.
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I think I know who I'll be commissioning if I ever need a Dr. Manhattan-penis-and-all birthday cake =P
You have a natural talent :) I vote yes for fondant genitalia, it's intriguing.