to show off my Flower Power Festival cake? I can't share it IRL because the birthday girl hasn't seen it yet!

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Made for a dear friend's 18 year old daughter. The birthday girl is gorgeous, a real ray of sunshine, and is thoroughly enjoying being 18 and going to festivals etc, so I wanted the cake to be really exuberant and joyful. Went a bit overboard and it looks like a cake shop broke into our house and threw up on a cake board

I've done the birthday girl in her rainbow knitted coat (made by another family friend), red sunglasses and Doc Martens with yellow laces, and her beloved family dog!

It's a thing of beauty!

Agree you're a real artist. It takes much talent and skill to make icing people look realistic and bring them to life. That must have been a challenge with Jacob Rees Smug - but the result is brilliant, if a little too handsome.

I know how time consuming icing modelling /cake decorating is so you're wise, I think, to keep it as a creative and enjoyable interest/activity rather than a business venture. Having said that, have you thought (or do you already) of teaching you're skills to others? You might enjoy it and you'd have some lucky students!

Stunning cake.