Fondant Fetish - Grandma 'Gooners' Arsenal cake - 95 years old

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Comment by Wendy cassidy on May 10, 2013 at 1:04pm

yes this was the one Tracey,where in the UK are you?and how much would it be?? x

Comment by Tracy Deadman on November 27, 2011 at 9:14am

Hi June, yes this was the gluten free wheat free cake. My client only asked for the logo - but I couldn't leave the 95 year old grandma with what I considered a very masculin cake :) I was given free design with this - so after getting granny's photo I decided to make her too lol. As you've probably guessed this is fully edible - no plastic or wire used (I make that a USP of mine) I moulded her face from a silicon mans head mold and then tweaked the nose and chin quite a bit. For the glasses I used a very small piece of gum paste rolled into a thin snake and kind of made a figure of eight out of it. I stuck this on grannys nose and then using royal icing I piped from the side of the glasses to her head. It worked pretty well. Once it had dried I painted them with gold lustre dust mixed with gin. I was really pleased with how they turned out :) I'm pleased you liked them. Tx

Comment by June Kowalczyk on November 27, 2011 at 8:27am

Amazing Tracy.  Was this a gluten/wheat free cake???? I am sure client must have been thrilled. She looks great.  May I ask how you made her glasses? Considering making fondant figure B & G for my nephew this spring. Groom wears glasses.