Just Ducky!

As I am really into making cakes I decided to take the Wilton cake decorating classes at Michaels.  So this is the cake I made for the final class of Gum Paste and Fondant.

Rubber Duck Cake

 The teacher was super cool and said we could make whatever kind of cake we wanted to even if it didn't involve anything we did in class.  So I was looking for ideas online and found a couple duck cakes like this one.  So I decided to give it a shot and see if I could do it.  I think it turned out super awesome.

"Rubber" duck

"soap" bar

 

 

 

 

I made both the rubber ducky and the soap bar out of marzipan.  It was a little sticky to work with, but it is much more tasty then fondant.  I also liked using it as I had a bunch left over from a previous cake I had made.  For the duck I colored the marzipan with gel food color, and left the soap the natural marzipan color.

Cake from the side

To get the boards to look like wood, I colored the fondant brown and after rolling it out and cutting it into boards I gently ran a toothpick up and down to give it a grainy look.  For the bubbles I made a bunch of little balls out of white fondant and rolled them around in some pearl dust.  It gave them a super cool shimmer and made them look a bit more bubble like!