Luggage Cake

*** UPDATE: He's going to México! ***

Time to knead some sugar into homemade fondant. This gets really messy, but it's fun!



I baked two 9x13 yellow cakes and placed them next to each other before frosting them with chocolate chip cookie dough frosting. Yum!



I covered the cake in 3 sections of fondant (instead of one big piece like I normally would). I layed the sections down slightly overlapping each other to create the raised seams.



I used a toothpick to poke little holes in the fondant for the stitching. Yes, it was tedious and I'm sure there is a faster way or better tool to use, but it worked.



I printed out my brother's initials in a font I liked. Then I taped plastic wrap over that and piped over the letters using royal icing. I let the icing dry and then painted it with gold luster dust. Once it dried again, I peeled the plastic wrap off and used the royal icing letters for the monogram.



I printed off images of a passport, name tag, and flags at home and used the printout to order a frosting sheet printed with edible ink from a bakery. I cut the images out of the frosting sheet and attached them to fondant with white piping gel.



Everything you see is edible. Ta-dah!



I can't wait to find out where my brother is going on his mission!


STATS:

Rhonda's Ultimate Marshmallow Fondant
http://cakecentral.com/recipes/3183/rhondas-ultimate-mmf

Rhonda's Ultimate Chocolate Marshmallow Fondant:
http://cakecentral.com/recipes/3193/rhondas-ultimate-chocolate-mmf

Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough Frosting:
http://cakecentral.com/recipes/7600/chocolate-chip-cookie-dough-icingfilling

Royal Icing:
http://www.wilton.com/recipe/Royal-Icing-1