I've spent several days this week working on a cake for my Mom's 65th birthday. I thought it was gonna be a fairly easy cake to do but darn if the cake itself would cooperate! The flowers turned out awesome but the rest.... Actually I took pictures right away "just in case" and I think I'm going to be very glad I did. As the cake is settling it is leaning more and more to one side. Not sure what that's about because it has plenty of supports to keep it stable. I suppose it's like me - unstable despite support! Anyway, I'm pleased with how the flowers came out. I have preformed a "surgical intervention" on the cake since the pictures were taken and I'm crossing my fingers and saying a prayer that the cake will make it... at least till she sees it in person. This may not sound like a crisis to anyone else but to me it's a disaster in progress. Please pray for my cake - and that my Mom will enjoy it if it makes it to her house in one piece!
This is my first attempt at fondant/gum paste flowers.
I don't think they turned out too bad for being self-taught.
Oreo "dirt" isn't too bad either!
The leaning flowerpot (before it started leaning)
Just a quick description - The cake is five layers of chocolate cake, with chocolate icing tinted to look like terracotta. the dirt is Oreo crumbs and the flowers/leaves are marshmallow fondant.
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