Gravity-Defying ANPANMAN ANIME Character Cake

Gravity-Defying ANPANMAN ANIME Character Cake

I thought I’d already posted this but I guess it was just in my imaginary life haha!

This is a cake I did last month which was fun to make but also stressful. I don’t do gravity-defying often and usually will avoid them if I can but this client was VERY keen on a gravity-defying pose for the topper for her son’s cake AND wanted him extra large too so he could stand out, so how could I say no?

Anpanman is a Japanese anime character that I am not familiar with so had to google to come up with this design. I used RKT (rice krispie treats) to model the large topper and had him on a skewer on the work dummy while I covered and detailed him. When I went to move him to the cake…NEAR disaster!…he slipped down the skewer and bumped the work table!! Luckily, my hand was there to prevent him from falling all the way off and smashing to the floor. It took me over an hour to repair him so some of the other figures are not as detailed as I would have liked but I am just thankful it was not worse.

Then of course I was on pins and needles while hubby delivered it over 20 mins away. These kinds of deliveries ALWAYS have me holding my breath until hubby gets back and is able to report that it’s arrived safely and undamaged lol.

I used the new FMM cloud cutters to cut out the tree tops and some of the bushes as well as for the clouds (of course =D).

TFL – Violet =D

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64 Comments

He came out awesome! Great save. I love your design and the other characters look adorable too!

Benni - http://www.facebook.com/pages/Adventures-in-Caking/128896783863694

Fantabulous Violet!! How stressful for you! You did an amazing job on this one xx

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I love Anpanman. My neighbors niece gets so cute an excited watching the show. I showed her this when you posred on facebook ans she absolutely loved it! .•°°•☆

Naomi AKA Cairns Cake Lady, Australia www.cakedecorcairns.com or www.google.com/+CakeDecorCairns or www.facebook.com/cakedecorcairns

This is so adorable Violet! I don’t know the character Anpanman, but you sure did an awesome job on him! Such a cute cake!

Toni, Pennsylvania, https://www.facebook.com/WhiteCraftyCakes

a truly adorable cake….don’t know the character, but he’s so darn cute and so well done….no surprise there. Even with the mishap…you could never tell!

Creativity is God's gift to us. Using our creativity is our gift back to God. Clarky's Cakes 😎

Fab cake and great topper! I would never have realised that you had any difficulty as you cake is perfect!

Marlene - CakeHeaven

Cute and fabulous! Love the gravity defying cute guy! :) ❤

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