I’ve seen cakes like that on FoodTV and they are beautiful.
But are they really edible, with all that heavy thick fondant? I’m not a frosting person; I usually scrape mist of the frosting off a typical birthday cake, in order to taste the cake. German chocolate frosting is the exception ;)
LOL! You and I are opposite: I eat the frosting off, and leave most of the cake :-)
As I’ve said, I haven’t made these cakes; but I do like Marzipan candies, and I would suspect that the better cakes have the fondant or Marzipan rolled out quite thinly.
-JT