I made the biggest mistake by not getting enough brown fondant the first time round. When I went back to the store they were sold out of teddy bear brown which is just typical. I think there must have been a rush on teddy cakes that week.
After trawling around all the cake decoration stores I know of, nobody had teddy bear brown so my next step was to take the fondant I did have on the cake off and try to make the colour with colouring gels but because I had to work the fondant so much it just kept splitting every time I put it over the cake.
Then the cake was so soft and moist it started falling at the side. Thankfully I had made a backup cake which had been in the freezer for a couple of days so I ended up using that. Once I carved the defrosted cake it started taking shape.
The next stage was making the fondant look like leopard print which was quite easy and fun. I found the best way to make the effect was to throw some darker brown fondant spots on to partly rolled light brown fondant and then once the fondants covered enough you roll it into the main colour and it sticks and looks like leopard print.
The next difficult step was the handles. I initially wanted them stood up so I mixed some fondant with sugar paste so that it would harden enough to stand up but they just cracked and looked rubbish. Then I tried thick wires covered in fondant but they just flopped so I looked on the Internet for help and another person had had the same problem and ended up placing them down the side of the cake which looked really good. I made two handles with the leopard print fondant and instead of putting them down the side I folded them on top of the bag and it finished the cake off perfect.
The compact mirror was made with white and pink fondant, the rose was made with the rose petal cutters and built up and the lipstick was black, pink and gold fondant.
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