Unusual Wedding Cake

I know what you're thinking but yes this is a wedding cake. This was actually the first wedding cake I was asked to make. It was for a bride that loved horses and her groom that loved cars. The colours of the wedding were actually dark red, green and blue. Although it is deffinatly not something that I would choose the couple was VERY happy with how it turned out. Everything on the cake is eatable. The grass was done with a grass icing tip and the black "gravel" is black sugar. The cake topper I made using the colour flow icing tecnique. I found it an interesting way of making a cake topper. It was pretty cool, all be it strange. The horses and the cars around the different layers turned out to be a bit of a challenge. What I ended up doing was buying some small plastic horses, a few hot wheels and some crayola clay magic. It works almost like air drying clay but it's lighter and slightly bendable when it's dried. I then took the horses and cars and pressed them into chunks of the clay magic to make a mold. After the clay magic dried I was then able to take fondant icing and press it into the molds to make the shapes I needed. I painted the black on with gel food colouring when they had dried. So although it was a strange subject matter it was an interesting way of solving my problem. This method could be used to make any sort of subject matter you would choose or if someone else wants a horse and car wedding cake...... thought so.

Happy icing!