My coworker is going to Antarctica for a holiday! (I know!)
She LOVES penguins.
She is looking forward to seeing lots of penguins!
I call this one Sidney....
...and this one, Marc Andre.
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The base is carrot cake with cream cheese frosting sprinkled with pearlized sugar. The penguins are made of sugar paste, as are the blue snowballs surrounding the cake. The igloo is also sugar paste that is draped over a small metal bowl. Then I scored the design onto the igloo and highlighted it with watered down food color paste and a small brush. I also painted the penguins but their beaks and feet are tinted sugar paste. Their faces should probably be black but I'd need a smaller brush for those kind of details and I was running out of time, plus the craft store was closed! I think the webbed feet are the cutest detail of all!
It took me about 3 hours to make the whole thing. I hope my boss doesn't want me to make her kid a birthday cake....
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