You just takes some eggs, whip them up, add some flour, sugar and a few extra ingredients, throw in some buttercream icing and fondant and Poof! You have a cake! It’s easy! 

Uh, no. It’s not that easy. Some custom cakes take a whole lot of time. This cake took over 20 hours to produce, including clean up time. The figures (The Berenstain Bears) alone took over 4 hours to sculpt. There is an internal structure supporting the nearly 20” tall cake. It is stacked like a 4 tier wedding cake. It’s resting on a 15” base cake board. The base tier of the tree started as an 8” chocolate cake filled with peanut butter buttercream icing, The middle tier is the same, only a 6” layer. The 3rd tier up is a 6” round yellow cake with strawberry buttercream filling. The 4th tier, the greenery on the tree has been made with rice krispy treats, covered with buttercream icing, then covered in fondant. The cakes were iced, filled, and stacked and then covered with rich dark chocolate ganache for stability and then covered with fondant which was then textured,  hand painted and accented with edible pedal dusts for color. 

I loved every minute working on this cake. It made me think out of the box and problem solve and I probably spent about 2 weeks researching and  planning the design of this cake. 

As I stated before, I loved every minute of it.