I have been given a picture of a Martha Stewart Cake and wonder how this is done. I have looked on Martha Stewarts website but can not find it. Can anyone help please?

That's a no-brainer! If you look closely you'll see that the pattern is made up of rectangles (with slanted short-ends) in a chevron pattern!

Lovely cake - make sure you charge out the wazoo 'cause that is going to take you an age.

It does look like chevron like Godot said. One strip is pointed side up, and then the next strip or row is pointed side down.

yes-

but the shading on each 'box' makes 'em look like they are not flat but bevled, 3-d ish

beveled perfectly i might add

then you look at the profile of the cake and you see it is all smooth

tremendous optical illusion--really a stunner cake

think it's piped? with a rose tip or something maybe

I think it can be done with a cutter similar to this one.   I think it is all in the arrangement or the chevron pattern and the 3D look is an illusion.  Maybe done with pearl dust shading.

It is very pretty.  Does the book not give any ideas or hints on how it is done?

http://www.flourconfections.com/geometric-chevron-cutter-set-designed-lisa-bugeja-p-3895.html

It's a Martha Stewart cake and she doesn't tell you how to make it??  Isn't that kind of her schtick?  Martha Stewart FAIL!  I have her wedding book at home but I don't think that's in it....

Try this.....

http://www.marthastewartweddings.com/230889/white-wedding-cakes/@center/272453/wedding-cakes#314193

white and ivory!!!

bwuwahahaha

too clever!

Source:  MarthaStewart.com
http://www.marthastewartweddings.com/230889/white-wedding-cakes/@center/272453/wedding-cakes#314193

Geometric Wedding Cake

The use of two colors like white and ivory may help give it more dimension since one would be a little darker, but maybe I'm wrong.

Another thought.... I would measure out a peice of wax paper the circumference and height of your cake and do the design on that and THEN attach with royal icing.  It should stay straight that way.

Thanks all yes I eventually found the design and it does say there is a clipart to download but I couldn't get it as it says Access denied. Thanks Jackie for the pdf file.

Very time consuming and yes MsFg  perhaps the chevron cutter would work  but need to be able to access in NZ.

I may be wrong but its looks like this side pattern could have been created using a LATTICE pastry cutter, on a smooth fondant base.

Using a diamond cutter and then cutting those shapes in half would give you even sized, already bevled on the side stripes to use on this pattern. Hope that helps.

Looks to me like its just six million tiny little strips of fondant painstakingly placed in that pattern, with half the strips having a little shading on the bottom side. 

WOWZA! What a ton of work! 

There's at least 140 on the top tier alone...