Constitution Cake

Another friend of mine, Tom, graduated from Law School and had requested a cake for his graduation party. He even gave me a suggestion of having the Constitution be part of the cake since he was going to  specialize in constitution law.

It turns out, there aren't millions of other constitution cakes around for me to copy this time around!!! So, i had to keep it simple.

I decided to have a simple cake covered by the scroll. I prepared the scroll one night by rolling the fondant thinly and crinkling the sides and painted it with vanilla(smart huh.. not my idea) and some other brown color. Surprisingly easy. And the 2nd night, i put the cake together. My downfall was using both white cream cheese frosting and also ganache, so, it took longer than it should. Shall have to remember to not frost with 2 colors!!!! But i managed to go to sleep at 1 am!!

So, here's the cake. Lemon cake with strawberry cream cheese frosting. Sides are frosted with chocolate cream cheese and the tops with cream cheese frosting AND ganache!! Ganache was used so that the fondant could sit on top of the cake without sticking to it.

Oh the writing on the constitution was done using edible marker.

Quite please with the color scheme

The writing was nerve-wrecking!!!