Mad Hatter Cakes!

I wanted to post some Mad Hatter cakes I did a while ago for my blogger friend Diana to enjoy. Above is my first attempt using fondant and doing a tiered cake. I didn't experiment with mixing colors at this point, but I did discover luster dust and glazed the pearls with it around the cake. This particular cake was inspired by a cake seen in a bakery window shop in my local town in Ellicott City called "Fishers Bakery". My best friend and I must have walked past it a hundred times on our way to our favorite coffee shop and it would always stop her in her tracks. Because of the beautiful cakes in the window, I bought my wedding cake there a few years later. Commenting on the cake, Mrs. Fisher told me that they do not make those cakes, they are just too difficult. (I thought to myself: Ummm, so what's with the cake display in the window lady???) Fast forward a few more years, the owners had changed and the cake disappeared out of the window. My friend was saddened by this. So. . . what was I to do? Make one for her of course! I found various instructions on the internet, rolled up my sleeves and with my other crafty friend Dawn, we figured it out together. Above is her very merry un-birthday cake, and now we have started the un-birthday birthday tradition complete with the Alice in Wonderland song.



Now, when you create a cake like the one shown above, everybody wants one! Above is a cake I made for my Mother just a few months after. After I made this cake, and shed many tears of frustration of a whole weekend creating it, I vowed never to do one again! Nope, not so.
This September, my dear best friend is getting married, and I am going to make her a large, gorgeous tiered wedding cake and it will be my very best esthetically pleasing luster dusted creation ever!!! She deserves it. Look out Ace of Cakes!