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Doctor Cake





This was a fun experience. A friend was completing his medical specialist training and his wife wanted to make him a special cake. She made the cake at home and brought it over to decorate. It was a very yummy caramel mud cake, delicious!

We started with a crumb coat, into the fridge and smoothed out the surface.

Then added some pink to the neck area, laid blue fondant over the whole cake and cut out some of the blue fondant to reveal the 'skin'.




Then for fun we made a surgical mask and let it set over a balloon.





And finally to make the various medical items on the cake. This was fun as well. 





 It was the first time I was able to make a fondant cake with someone and very exciting to see someones confidence grow over a short window :)


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