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There’s a lot going on here, and some of it is hard to see in the pictures, but I’ll try to explain. Firstly, on the top we have a royal icing basket, covered with royal icing pansies, daffodils, and roses. Coming out of the basket are tiny tiny roses on wires. The cake and board are both covered with fondant, and the board is embossed around the edges with a little diamond design. On the top four corners of the cake are teeny tiny royal icing roses and leaves.

Moving to the sides, you’ll see oriental stringwork, pink and white drop flowers, a heart design in purple colourflow, and itty bitty little white hearts where the strings on the bottom join.

Did it come out perfectly? Technically, no. Some of my strings are wonky, and I still have trouble with large roses. But I think the overall effect is quite stunning, and I learned some interesting new techniques that I will be practicing. So, yay for me!

My final project cake for Wilton Course 2.

Another cake that is over a year old! This one was for my second Wilton Course, so I had to make the cake from the book. If I remember, this was just a box mix cake (since it was just for a class and I was in a hurry) with a pudding filling, and vanilla buttercream. The flowers are made from royal icing, the leaves are buttercream, and the bird is colour flow.