Cake Club: Very cool cake stand! It's perfect for this cake! I totally get that the you were going for the look of ice, but that bottom tier looks a bit messy. I feel like the bottom needs to be solid against the board. I can also see crumbs from the ball cake. Those should be hidden. Using the quilting tool was a great idea, but the blocks are going sideways. Igloos are build with bricks of ice but they are stacked straight if that makes sense. Those little penguins are very cute! I love that you put one on top of the igloo!
Cake Club! I love the concept. My initial impression is your cake is too short. Looks like only about 2" or so. Most professional cakes are at least 3.5". That aside, you have that little gap where the cake meets the drum that needs icing, and you know you had a few holes in your buttercream coverage. Your penguins are GREAT! SO cute!!!
Cake Club: Cute concept that would work for a variety of applications. Like the others, I want to see the icing meet the board on the bottom tier, and icing to meet icing where the igloo sits on the "snow". You could have even mounded snow drifts up onto the igloo; the igloo also appears to be misshapen. The penguins bother me. Execution of the wings appears haphazard and rough, and some of the head/torso joins are awkward. Adding a dot of white on the pupils would make them more appealing and lifelike. Do you prefer to work with GP rather than fondant? Whenever I do figures like this I use fondant both for its workability and edibility since there will be the inevitable 3-yr-old who promptly pulls the head off and munches it down (also why I always use pretzels in stead of toothpicks to stabilize the heads).
Thank you all for your critique! Very helpful. You are so right about that some areas missed BC coverings. I'm especially unsatisfied with the igloo door, since the crumbs are showing. Also the igloo squares are misshaped - fondant was still soft. It was rushed. These penguins are my first attempt at making 3-D figures. I was not completely happy with them myself. handymama - you are right, the head/torso joints are awkward. I'm so glad to receive comments from you. Very helpful.
viannescakes -- you're very gracious. As with most artists we can can get very emotionally entwined with our work, and it's oh-so-easy to be insulted if someone points out a flaw or something they didn't like. That was a great first attempt at figures. I just love making them on the rare occasion that they are called for (well, animals anyway; my people tend to be wonky) but those little beasts can take up to 45 minutes each!
Cake Club: The only thing I can add to what has already been said is maybe adding a black bit of fondant that fits into the "door" of the igloo would help finish it. For your first time the figures look great, I'm sure you learned a lot!
Cake Club. You already got a ton of great advice so I can only emphasize improving the igloo by making the blocks straight up and down. Really cute concept.
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I totally get that the you were going for the look of ice, but that bottom tier looks a bit messy. I feel like the bottom needs to be solid against the board. I can also see crumbs from the ball cake. Those should be hidden.
Using the quilting tool was a great idea, but the blocks are going sideways. Igloos are build with bricks of ice but they are stacked straight if that makes sense. Those little penguins are very cute! I love that you put one on top of the igloo!
You are so right about that some areas missed BC coverings. I'm especially unsatisfied with the igloo door, since the crumbs are showing. Also the igloo squares are misshaped - fondant was still soft. It was rushed.
These penguins are my first attempt at making 3-D figures. I was not completely happy with them myself. handymama - you are right, the head/torso joints are awkward.
I'm so glad to receive comments from you. Very helpful.