A very interesting read! I do not own a business but I decorate a lot of cakes for family and friends which are always real cakes. I use the old traditonal fruit cakes and cover the cakes in marzipan and then in sugarpaste to get as perfect a finish as possible. I tend to use dummies for collaborations and for magazine features or when trying out some particular technique, as my family are frankly fed up of eating cake all th time! However I tend to stick to designs which could easily and as successfully be done with real cake.
Marlene - CakeHeaven
