The 1893 World's Fair Cake

by Linda Lees
(California)

For this 1983 worlds fair cake, 2 weeks ahead of time I made the gumpaste figures and pieces. The fence, the lamp posts, ticket booth, plants and pots.

The ferris wheel is made of gumpaste and accented with royal icing. I made the wheel structures and seats and let them all dry and then put it all together with royal icing.

The little girl is made of gumpaste. After her body dried, I made the clothes from gumpaste and attached to the body. The flag in the little girl's hand is made of gumpaste and decorated with food markers. For her hair I wrapped tiny twists of gumpaste around toothpicks and allowed to dry and then attached to her head.

All of the people were made in the same way, but I spent more time on the little girl.

The pavillion was made with turrets from a princess castle kit covered in fondant and decorated with royal icing.

The cake is an 11 x 15 with 2 layers, filled and iced with buttercream. The outside roller coaster track is made of fondant and the border of rocks are fondant. The ferris wheel and the pavillion are heavy and need to be placed on supports. I used 3 cardboard cake boards for the extra weight.