Beautiful cake, I love the design....How did you do the border and the stripes?

Love it! So unique and different! The bow is awesome! :)

Thank you so much for the feedback! The border was pretty easy - since it's modeling chocolate, it's fairly malleable - I just used my fingers to literally press the chocolate in different directions to make the ruffling effect. The striping effect was done by laying individual strips of white and dark chocolate on top of another, larger rectangle of modeling chocolate high enough to wrap the cake in. You then need to use a rolling/pressing technique to get them to meld together.There is actually a really good tutorial about making stripes with modeling chocolate, which you can buy online from a company called Baking Arts.

Beautiful. I thought you molded the top by using a tart pan...it looked kind of like the ruffled edge of a tart pan. Thanks for the info on the tutorial for stripes. I'm going to look into that.

Beautiful cake! You did an amazing job. Your stripes are perfect! I was wondering - how do you cut this? Can you cut through the chocolate like fondant?

wow, lovely :)

Stunning!!!

Gorgeous! I have the video from Baking Arts - just haven't had time to watch it yet.