Baby Dot Com Carnival

This is by far, THE most extravagantly decorated cake I've made as far as a kiddy cake is concerned. I spent about 1 month doing this. From coming up with the concept, looking for the pics, figuring out how to materialize the idea.

In the beginning, my thoughts were fondant, fondant, fondant but i am not good at modeling with fondant. By now I thought, fondant modeling of cute animals...hmmm, getting all too common, though cute but common. And I was sooooo itching for something different. So I decided to explore the less favored, less common choice...COLOR FLOW. Initially scared because I've never done it outside of class and on cookies but that was the only option since my confidence with modeling is low.

Immediately put to practice what the book says. Since color flow can be used for stand-up decorative items like logos....why not! The wordings, trees and animals...pretty much anything 2-D can be made "3-D".

So this is my exploration with COLOR FLOW. I hope this gives some renewed faith
towards this decorating technique and shows that it can stand just as tall as what fondant can do but often over looked.

It was a tiring day for me. Half of my Sunday morning was taken up by my classes. Rushed home to rest for a really short 15 minutes. Changed and get my groove and headed towards Baby Dot Come, a baby ware supply shop near my house. Christine, the owner and I became friends about 3 years ago and I sponsored a cake for the winners of her baby contest. So that was my first stint ever...introducing myself around and publicizing my services. I wasn't sure how well that worked.

I couldn't participate last year's event so this year, I approached her again and after a short meeting, we agreed on a safari/jungle theme for the cake.

I managed to get my flyers done and by now, I have "grown" as a decorator and this is a far far cry from my first sponsorship. Went around the guests and distributing flyers and introduced myself. After the activities lined up( karaoke contest, baby catwalk which I was the judge and a coloring contest...I was a judge for that too), finally the event ended with posing for the cameras, all the baby contestants and their parents surrounding my cake! It was a great moment for me...in my hopeful effort to increase public awareness of my services in our neighbourhood.