This cake design is from 2008, when I was still unsure about using fondant and relied heavily on icing for decoration (though the lei is made from fondant and the pink and white flower and the ears are made with gum paste… clearly I had no idea what I was doing).

To get the shape of the pig, I used a medium and a small stainless steel mixing bowls. The texture of the pig is created by piping star-shaped dots.