Bride ordered a replica of her dress and 2 present cakes. The bodice(from waist up) is styrofoam. See my other picture of dress before fully decorated for structure. Dress is covered with fondant and luster dusted with a maroon luster dust.
Thanks for wonderful comments. I made hat molding a dough of 75% gumpaste and 25% fondant over Wilton 5 inch ball mold(dusted heavily with cornstarch before placing dough on top of it). This got me the hat center. I used the PME 20" deep impression basketweave rolling pin to get weave design. When I purchased it, it was $40. After hat center dried, rolled out more dough, textured it, cut out a doughnut shape, place around outside of hat center, did small sponges placed under brim to get rippl...
the clips were made from a section of one of the Baroque gumpaste molds by wilton. It is from the Regalia set of molds. To see brides' actual dress, visit www.tanyacakes.com, click on Wedding cakes button, click on the similar cake as here to view additional photos of the cake, including the bride in her dress.
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