The monthly office offering! This month I really wanted to try making some of the gumpaste flowers from the instruction book I got for my birthday. One of the birthday girls' favorite flowers are tulips, so that is what I worked on. Let me tell you - making flowers is not a quick process! Those darn tulips took me 8 hours total to make. I also discovered that gumpaste flowers are very, very fragile.... broke a couple in the process. I did discover that I do enjoy making the flowers and can't wait to try some of the others in the book!
The final cake ended up being a basket of tulips. The cake itself was a marble cake - also going on the business menu - with the Oreo cookies & cream filling. I did a basketweave with chocolate buttercream. The handle I made from some sprinkler tubing - wrapped it in chocolate fondant - which tastes just like fudge if you've never had it! - to make it look kind of leatherish.
I love how this cake turned out. It is one of my favorites, however, as always I would do at least one thing differently! LOL - the artist is never satisfied I guess! Anyway, I think in order to make the handle more rounded, instead of pointy, I need to cut the length just a little bit. Unfortunately, after drying, when i bent the tubing to place it in the cake, it creased and became pointy.
I think this cake was a success from the comments I received just taking it into the office. One staff member had to leave the meeting early and was disappointed that she didn't see the cake.... not realizing that the basket of flowers WAS the cake!
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