The Monsterhill

I chose this for my first threadcakes attempt this year. The cake I made was mint chocolate chip; and I decided to try and make chocolate fondant for the first time; which was a major taste success (yummy fondant, who knew?). This was also my first attempt at modeling figures in gumpaste. My one suggestion for Threadcakes is that it would be great if the contest were moved to another season; with no air-conditioning working with fondant, gumpaste and frosting can be a challenge(just my 2 cents:)

I made one round layer and half of a ball-pan (also got to use this for the first time); sandwiched them together with yummy chocolate frosting, carved the basic Monsterhill shape, covered that in more chocolatey goodness, and covered it with the chocolate fondant. I used white fondant for the eyes, pink gumpaste for the tongue, painted details with black gel food coloring and inserted tic-tacs for the teeth. I made the feet w/ more chocolate fondant. I wasn't sure how to do the hair, so I decided to experiment and just painted on white candy-coating dyed grey. It worked perfectly! The bunny and carrot were made from gumpaste, and I used dyed white candy-coating for the trees and clouds. I put the clouds on wires, although one was too heavy, so only 2 made it to the final product.

I think my favorite part of this cake are the little rabbit skeletons (gumpaste again) and skulls scattered along the cake's base (which I covered in black royal icing).

I had an absolute blast with this cake,I would guess I spent 8-10 hours on it; but it just flew by. And I brought it along for my dad's father's day dinner, and am happy to report it tasted as good as it looked.