What we have here is literal food porn.

When a friend of mine requests a cake that looks like a 70’s glittery leopard shagpile rug for her 30th birthday, that is what they will darn-well get. My superpal Hazel did exactly this, and my other superpal Sarah and I rose to the occasion, delving into the unknown world of fondant to craft this dream into a reality.

We also thought it appropriate to add a scantily clad woman into the mix in the spirit of dirty thirty.

Ohh la la!

We blindly raided our local Spotlight store

Working out the perfect colour ratio for the fondant

roll it out nice ‘n flat

cut it and throw it over a cake, use leftovers to make pillow, add nudie torso

two cakes were baked for height and the tops cut off so they were perfectly flat discs. We used the leftover tops to make the legs! Add icing gel bra – how saucy!

We tried this for the leopard pattern. It didn’t work.

So we did this instead! And added edible glitter!

Throw it on her! (delicately)

Add furry purple trim and text! (so many icing nozzles were used to make this cake) and VOILA!

Best darn cake I ever did see.

There’s me dressed as Freddie Mercury trying to light the thing

Hazel and fam were frothing!