posted photos of my son's teacher cake

I just posted 3 photos of the cake I made for my son's teacher. One is a "full picture", the 2nd is a close-up of the children/faces that I put on it, and the 3rd is the cupcakes that I made for the class to eat.

Please be brutally honest <grin>....'cause right now I have a big head....all the mons and teachers there told me that I ought to start selling cakes, but I don't know that I am at that skill level yet....I'm NOT fishing for compliments....just wondering if you guys think that I am "ready" to try and get customers. Thanks!

Thanks everyone for your feedback! I was pretty happy with the way that the cake turned out, although I have to wrok on getting the fondant smoother. I think one of the problems is that I tend to put more bc on than you are supposed to....but I do that in case someone doesn't like fondant...than there is still plenty of icing for them after they scrape off the fondant.

to answer a few questions.....

Janice - from years of having long fingernails, I simply got in the habit of never "using them". When I was smoothing the fondant, I used only the palm of my hand, the "pads" of my fingertips and a fondant smoother. My last fondant cake (which was also my first) had PLENTY of finger marks in it...but they were 2 and 4 year old finger marks <grin>

Lisa - I did use those Wilton cutters and I did have a problem with them sticking. But to get them out, I used the smallest tip from the Wilton confectionary tool set and gently nudged them out. It was small enough to get in the cutter, but still round enough to not do that much damage to the letter (although I had a heck of a problem with the "A"s and "O"s stretching as they came out!)

AgentCakeBaker - The faces didn't take long....I did them on Saturday night and let them sit out to dry until I added them to the cake on Monday morning. They were just made out of fondant with a little bit of GumTex added. I had fun making the mouths too (I wanted a bunch of different ones). All the mouths were made using cookie cutters, including many mini-shaped ones (the pumpkin cookie cutters gave a really cute "grimace")