Katrina is the 18 year old granddaughter of a customer from many years ago. Her Birthday cake was baked in the large book pan, one half was White cake with buttercream filling the other half was Chocolate cake with fudge filling.
The book binder is black fondant which I cut using the pan for size, before the cake was baked. This allowed the binding to dry out. Fondant will dry, but is very fragile as it does not have the elements of gumpaste or pastillage that make the clay hard.
I first frosted the book cake with buttercream and then I placed it on the fondant binding so that the edges were clean and no frosting got on the binding. Using a comb tool, comb the outer edges to create pages. The loose leaf pages were done on wafer paper, hand painted and dampened to stick together.
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