New Make/Bake 22 - My Birthday Cake

I know it's not really the done thing to make your own birthday cake but after M got a rather large quote (although he did ask a baker with his own show on Channel 4 which may have added a few extra pennies) I thought I'd do it myself!

I made an 11inch round Marble Cake (Chocolate and Vanilla) - a new recipe and I think I've been converted - it was perfect!

I didn't want to cover the cakeboard with sugarpaste to wrapped it in some pink shiny wrapping paper.
I used  Vanilla Buttercream to layer the cake and as a crumb coat layer to stick the sugarpaste on and wrapped the cake with a duck egg blue ribbon. As with my other large cake I struggled to lift the massive piece of sugar paste and ended up with a few cracks and dents. Luckily I was able to cover most of them when I decorated.

I then decorated the cake using four different coloured sugarpastes (Duck Egg, Jade Green, Baby Pink and Lilac) which were cut into flowers of differing sizes using sets of  Blossom and Daisy Cutters. I then sprayed a few flowers with Pearl Luster Dust to give the cake some extra shimmer and used a few pink shimmer balls as centres for some of the smaller flowers and I stuck them to the cake using edible glue. All topped up with a Diamanté tribute to the dreaded 30.

I was really pleased with the final result and it tasted as good as it looked!