This panda cake is definitely one of my favourites:)  Its a fruit cake base covered in marzipan and then fondant.  I haven’t used marzipan very much before but it’s actually really easy to work with, particularly for this kind of three dimensional cake.  Its very sculptural and easy to mould, useful for relatively complicated shapes like this panda.  The really tricky part was trying to cover this cake in fondant without showing any joins, I find the secret is to try and use the natural creases in the cake to hide them!