Basketball Cake With a Musical Twist

by Vicki Eads
(Saint Peters Missouri USA)

I made this cake for my niece for her 13th Birthday. she's really into basketball but her other interests are drama, singing and playing the guitar, i incorporated those by the drama faces at center court, the musical notes around the base of the cake and the guitar on the front.
The actual cake is a double layer 1/2 sheet of Double Butter Chocolate Fudge with a filling of almond vanilla buttercream and then covered with almond flavored homemade MM fondant. The characters and all other pieces are also made out of MM fondant. i used watered down brown icing color to paint on the hard wood floors. The hoops were giving me a hard time just tring to figure out how to do them,i finally decided the best way was to make cones out of black fondant and letting them dry then piping on the net, and it gave the affect i was looking for!! The writing is all done with edible markers.
There was a lot of time put into this cake but i thoroughly enjoyed making it for her and the response i got at the party told me EVERYONE else liked it too, and the Birthday girl loved it!!!