Piano cake and change of season

It's been a wonderful, long summer, and a long time since I've been active on this blogging-thing. But there's a chill in the air, I'm sitting here with the first cold of the season, and we've got about four months until Christmas.Yes, autumn is coming. It is a season of new beginnings - exited children starting school, students starting new courses, some have new jobs to go to (me included). Soon time to think of Christmas presents, enjoy hot chocolate again, pick berries and mushrooms and smell the strange sweetness of heather, wet grass, decaying apples and all the other odours of autumn. As for the baking, I'm still on a break, more or less, but that doesn't mean the odd cake won't appear on this blog - like this piano-cake which was ordered before summer. 

I made a juicy vanilla sheet cake, split it in two, made two sheets out of both parts, and then stacked them with banana and cream between the layers (yep, that's what the birthday-girl wanted). Then I sculpted the piano, covered it in a thin layer of marzipan, then added the black marzipan, white fondant, etc.

They wanted a girl to sit by the piano. I used marzipan, but kind of feel I should have used fondant - fondant doesn't get dry as quickly as marzipan, and is somewhat easier to mold. Oh well, she turned out all right.

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Banana-piano, not something you see every day :3

Enjoy the end of summer ;)