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| The 225 flowers next to a 10p coin |
Today I was at Clare’s for the last time and
we were planning to make a 2 tiered birthday cake which I’d seen in a magazine.
Clare helped me to level, fill and ice the 2 cakes whilst I got on with making
the 225 flowers to cover the cake.
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| The flowers with piped centres |
This took a long time and I also made some
leaves and 15 different butterflies to use on the cake. To prepare the cake for
decoration I put 6 pins, evenly spaced, around the edge of both tiers before
draping a necklace over the pins to create a gentle curve for the flowers to
follow. I then pricked the icing with a pin, following this curve.
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| The draped flower garlands |
Then I took the cake home where I prepared
some Royal icing using 100g of royal icing sugar and 16ml of water. I put this
into a piping bag with a size 2 nozzle before sticking the flowers to the cake.
Then I piped dots into the centre of each flower before scattering leaves near
the flowers.
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| The butterflies with their antennae |
Next I
made prepared the butterflies by halving stamens for antennae’s and I attached
these by royal icing. I finally put these onto the cake. However I wanted to
decorate the top of the cakes so I attached a decorated butterfly to the cake
and I put a small spray of flowers at the bottom of the butterfly.
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| The completed Butterfly Kisses Cake |
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