The "Fake" Wedding Cake

Now this one is interesting folks! I was asked to make a wedding cake for my boyfriends grandparents 50th wedding anniversary. Seeing as I was going back to Canada for the Christmas break... if I were to make a cake it would be rotten by the day they needed it for so instead a fake wedding cake was born. When one thinks of a fake cake, the first thing that comes to mind is Styrofoam ....so I took a trip to Micheal's and Hobby Lobby and was faced with an outrageous price for something that was just going to be thrown out.  The brilliant idea of using boxed cake mix was suggested but the problem with that is usually boxed cake mixes are far too moist and I was afraid that the "cake" would end up collapsing. This is where the sweet deliciousness of cornbread come in... that's right a cornbread cake, cheap and strong. Fifteen boxes of cornbread mix, 2 pounds of icing sugar and a box of fondant later, a wedding cake was born. As no one was eating the "cake", I used royal icing to stick the fondant onto the cornbread as well as making the tiny roses out of it, one hundred tiny handmade roses to be exact.