Cameo Cake 1: Elegant Sweetness

Sketch and notes on Cameo Cake design number 1.

Scribbled out arch on top is not part of the design.

This is a very sweet cake and I am going to be doing it in a color I am personally not very fond of- pastel pink. I will be creating it in the form of a white/vanilla cake with strawberry gel icing between three layers of cake. The outside is created like a strawberry fondant, with the icing dyed a pale shell pink color.

The base of the cake will be rimmed with pearly pink spheres. Then there will be the cameos- oval decorations that are going to be painted with PC paint in sepia tones on antiqued white. A draped "cloth" in darker pink with true pink flowers. Lining the rim on the top of the layer will be strawberries with the leaf part cut flush and the cut part on the cake. These will be dusted in "glass sugar snow" to give the effect of there being sugar sprinkled on top of them.

The second layer of the cake will have cherry blossom colored scrollwork. The top will be dusted with white chalk dust to give the impression of powdered sugar. The edge will have tiny scallops pointing up and creating a rim and they will also be pink.

Between the second and third layer of the cake are thee columns and a platform. The columns will be made and baked before they are baked onto the cake. They will be simple ones unless I can figure out how to create an ionic or corinthian style cap for each of them. I will paint them in a crackle pattern with pale pink PC paint, and then I will sprinkle iridescent pinkish glitter on them as well to give them a bit of shine.

The third layer of the cake is the smallest and will be a simple pink cake. On top of it will be rose acacia flowers and branches which will spill over the edge. There will also be some pomegranate flowers, pink lilies and strawberry vines.

A slice will be cut out of the back and displayed on its side, showing the three layers and the strawberry filling that it holding them together. They will be displayed on rose printed dollhouse dishes with silver cutlery. The cake will be scented with "Strawberry Jam" from candlesupply.com.

This cake will be reproduced at 1:12 scale, 4.5 cm tall.

-The base layer will be 1.9 cm wide and 1.05 cm tall. (each cake sheet is 0.6 cm tall)

-The second layer will be 1.5 cm wide and 0.7 cm tall.

-The columns will be 0.4 cm wide and 1.05 cm tall each.

-The platform will be re-enforced with flat toothpicks.

-The third layer will be 1.05 cm wide and 0.63 cm tall.