This was a great design to come up with! I was asked by the customer if I could make a cake all about Las Vegas for her partners 40th birthday celebrartions. He is a bit of a gambler and a fan of the bright ,lights and fun times of Las Vegas.
I love it when a customer presents an idea to me and then leaves me to get on with the design element to it – I came up with a quick sketch depicting the idea to have it adorned with poker chips, bank notes, coins and of course the Las Vegas Sign!
One thing I always tell my customers is that the sketches I provide are a general idea of the final cake – very rarely do my cakes turn out exactly like the sketch as that is all part of the process. Once the cake starts to take shape in front of me, then I may need to make changes to produce the cake to a better finish.
Here the difference was made in the way the poker chips were displayed, they looked great sandwiched between the 2 tiers so that the top tier appeared to float above them, the normal coins were omitted altogether and a fan of edible dollars was added to the top instead – creating a frame for the playing cards (the highest hand in Poker) then the Las Vegas sign created the focal point to the centre of the cake.