The process took nearly a week. I drew the stencil in Adobe Illustrator, printed on cardstock, cut with an exacto and then put onto black fondant and cut out. I let the faces dry for two days. The logo nameplate was done with fondant and edible marker - I used a template for that as well, which I cut out of cardstock. Other elements are fondant cut with cookie cutters. The "frames" were the most arduous of everything. They started out too thick, broke like crazy, etc, etc. But in the end, with the help of my mom who was in town, we got them on the cake.
The cake board decoration is actually cup cake cups cut in half and glued to the (terribly messy looking) cake board. (I'm such a sloppy crumb coater and the board wasn't grease proof.)
This was my first big cake covered in fondant. I don't know what possessed me to attempt a square cake for the first fondant covering, but let me just say that it is NOT easy. And that the fondant elements in the corners are very, very strategically placed.
Overall, I think it came out quite well. Although it's been funny asking people what they see when they first look at the image on top.
Funniest comment yet - "Ummm - a buffalo? NO! Wait! I see John Lennon!"
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