AUGUST CAKE OF THE MONTH – 2005
Birthday Cake Featuring Gumpaste Flowers
This birthday cake is a 10x15 sheet cake covered with white buttercream. Tip 22 shell borders were used with tip 16 corner and side scrolls.
The floral arrangement is made up of a white gumpaste lily and gumpaste roses and leaves. The gumpaste roses are made on toothpicks. These roses were made for display when I gave a demo”How to Make Roses on Toothpicks” at the ICES Missouri Days of Sharing for cake decorators in Kansas City May 1-2. The roses are made from tinted gumpaste and then dusted with luster dusts and steamed. The gumpaste leaves are also dusted with luster dust and steamed.
The name was piped with tip 2 using tinted piping gel.
A silk butterfly completes the design.