Finished Strawberry Cake

Here it is finished. The final touch was to color the marzipan we made yesterday and cured overnight. We rolled out the marzipan and gave it a basketweave pattern before we put it onto the cake. Unfortunately you can't see the pattern in this photo, but you can see the view from the side... and Dave's hand. I wanted to leave the marzipan its natural color, but the pattern allowed the golden cake layer on top to show through the pattern, so I colored it pink. Some people colored theirs green. (I wonder if it made their tongues turn green.)