This is a very very special cake I created for my beloved brother who turned the big ‘five 0’ on Sunday.
He is a Catholic priest and it happened to be Palm Sunday…which the liturgical colour is red. His request was only for the praying hands, but I wanted to make his day extra special by adding the stained glass window tier…also for Holy Week and Easter Sunday. The top tier is a soft marbled icing with the hands drawn directly onto the cake. I’m not sure if it was madness or divine inspiration that made me take on this task of copying the famous drawing by the German artist Albrecht Durer! The stained glass window is also all hand painted directly onto the cake. This was based on a beautiful window of a church in America. The gold icing trim added a touch of class to go with my new cake stand I got for Christmas. The cake needed to travel 250 kms to his party as he is now based in regional Victoria, Australia. Lucky most of it was faux, the base tier is real as it was only a family lunch. I will redo that tier and give it back to him so he can keep it at the Parish house. Wishing all the lovely members of Cakes Decor a happy and holy Easter.