USA Landmarks Cake

This cake is based on some of America's more well known landmarks, there are loads more but it was an 8" cake and the USA is huge but I did manage to hand paint the flag and a map of America on top. On the front of the cake are The Painted Ladies, then Las Vegas, Big Apple, Route 66, Empire State Building and finally Lady Liberty.

This was my first attempt at painting a cake and now I'm hooked, it's amazing how versatile cake decorating is. I love my job :-) 

To make Lady Liberty stand out from the map I built her up with a grey coloured fondant and washed it over with a dark green to give it a look of the original.