It’s always a pleasure to get a new client via referral. The following cake was requested by Therese, a friend of Amy’s.
Therese’s daughter Aden was having a birthday and wanted a leopard print cake. So, I set out to find a great pattern I could recreate in royal icing.
I spent several hours piping icing into perfect leopard-like shapes. My shapes are on the left, the pattern I studied is on the right:
Once the spots dried, I iced a 12″ two-layer chocolate cake with pink icing. I then added the birthday phrase, a beaded border, and the leopard spots.
I would loved to see how these spots would look on a tiered cake!
Detail shot of the spots: Outlined in 100% thickness royal icing and filled with a looser version of the same icing to make a ‘pillowy’ look.
Happy Birthday, Aden! I hope it was a great one!!
Are you kidding me? How has no one commented on this one yet. This is so tedious and simply amazing. My achiever has never met another achiever quite like you. You blow my achiever out of the water. You are intense. You can do anything!
Aww, thanks, Mandy! You are pretty amazing yourself, so a compliment like that is extra special coming from you!