Moustacheville

Hello! My name is Sarah, and I love moustaches on anything but people, so my favorite Threadless design would obviously be Moustacheville. The cake was chocolate hazelnut, and was SO delicious!

Here's how I made the cake:
First I made the frosting, but I wanted to make it hazelnut flavored, so I added some of the hazelnut syrup that I used in the cake.

Then, I crumb-coated the cake and covered it so it wouldn't dry out.

Next, I made some marshmallow fondant and covered the cake with it.

Then I pondered how to make the moustache path in the middle. I first planned to cover the cake with black fondant, then add a white fondant moustache, but at the grocery store, I noticed Wilton Color Mist and bought it. I then cut out a moustache template and stuck it on the cake. Then I sprayed a couple coats on the cake to get the desired color.

Next, I dyed some fondant black (staining my hands in the process) and shaped it into some moustaches for the birds and the trees. I used a toothpick covered in fondant for the trunk of the trees. I tried many things to make the moustaches fly, but the thing I decided on was linguine (let me explain. I had it out because I was making pasta, and thought it would be perfect).

Then onto the hardest part: The man.
I sculpted the man using mostly fondant and toothpicks. I used toothpick supports in his legs, body and head. Then I worked on the penny farthing. I printed off a template for it, then melted some white chocolate and warmed up my candy writer (basically just candy melts in a tube). When I was finished piping, it was very fragile, so I cut out some gum paste in the shape of it and attached the chocolate penny farthing to it. This helped it stay up more, but to really see the whole picture you kind of had to look at it from an angle.

Then, I attached everything to the cake, and voila! Finished!
Would you believe this cake was made for my eleventh birthday?