Bragging time!!! I totally just stole this idea from Peggy Does Cake, but though it wold be fun here too! Share your best cake from 2012 and tell us why it's your favorite!
I'll start:
I did a lot of really fun cakes this year, but I think my favorite has to be this:
I wanted precision in the shape of the tiers, lots of sparkle and I wanted every single thing to be edible. So I made custom food-grade silicone molds, did isomalt gems and molded over 200 tiny broaches out of fondant that I handpainted with edible silver (complete with facets). Believe me, 1/2 way thru I wished I just had a bunch of plastic broaches I could have stuck all over it, but when I put that very last touch of sparkle on, I almost cried - It turned out perfect. All in all, I think this cake took around 40 hours to make.
As a perfectionist, I always can find a flaw on one of my finished cakes that nobody would ever notice or see, but in person I couldn't find a single one on this cake. It was also incredibly satisfying to open the pictures I took in Photoshop and besides trying to fix my bad photo taking skills (exposure, angle etc), there wasn't a single flaw on the cake that I Photoshopped out.
This is my runner up:
This cake was insane to make. I had never done wonky tiers, let alone ganached and fondant wonky tiers, I had never airbrushed an entire cake, had never made a 360 degree freestanding cityscape out of gumpaste that had isomalt windows and backlight by LED lights, heck, I have never used LED lights OR isomalt. I was petrified that I was going to fail miserably - but every detail turned out better then I could have possibly imagined in my crazy head. I was humbled and honored that a Bride actually took a chance on me making this for her wedding (they were a VERY fun couple).
Your turn!!!
, that was the guest of honor. I'm the chubby, cute one 
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