My sister in law loves to make flan, so I made her a cake to look like one. She wasn't home when I dropped it off, but she called me later to tell me that she thought it was real flan, and wanted to ask me how I made it so big! Then her daughter told her that it was really a cake, and she totally loved it. The cake is slightly carved to taper it, and iced in buttercream. I painted it with clear piping gel that had been watered down, then dripped more down the sides that I colored to look like caramel.