The Parthenon

by Shannon Norland
(Jesup, GA USA)

To make the parthenon cake, first I took two wooden boards and wrapped them in fabric and cling wrap. Then I baked 5 flat long rectangular cakes and 3 short rectangular cakes. After they cooled I put butter cream frosting in between the layers having 3 layers in the bottom and 2 layers in the top. The middle was made from the 3 short cakes layered together. I then cut dowel rods to use as the pillers and screwed them to the top board. After they were on there I wrapped them in frosting and fondant. Then I cut the stairs out of the cake in order to lay the fondant on top of the bottom layer and then cut the roof out of the cake and layed the fondant over the top layer as well. Then I put fondant over the middle layers and also put small dowel rods in the bottom layer in order to hold up the middle layer. I then painted the two layers with brown and the pillers as well. Then I placed the top on with the pillers sinking into the bottom layer of the cake. I took a ruler and indented lines in the top to give it the 3-D look. Then I lined eatable pearls down the middle, front and back. Then put little creations on the top right side, left side, and middle. When this was all done I painted the top and put a white strip of fondant between the top layer and where the pillers start to hide the board. Then decorated it with ivy and a statue that the groom had in his personal collection. This was a very long process but after reading articles and practice I taught myself how to do decorate cakes. I enjoy it and find that it is a great master piece that makes any occation memerable.