Golden Anniversary Cake

This cake broke my heart. I had so many issues trying to get the roses to sit nicely on the top, can someone please tell me how to do it? so they sit all nicely together in a bunch? I'm thinking maybe I need to trim back the wires and sit them on instead of trying to insert the wires (safely tucked inside a straw) into the cake?

And sadly there were some other mishaps, some of the petals and lettering were damaged in transport. I am gutted as I really wanted this to be special, but on the plus side I am very pleased with how the quilting turned out.

I'm off now to google placing fondant roses on a cake to see if someone out there can help me.

Fondant Roses

I've gone a bit crazy buying cake equipment this week. I called into TK Maxx a couple of nights ago and came away with £40 worth of kit (some new tins, a flower mat and ooooo! a dye organiser!), and then this morning I took delivery of a set of rose petal cutters and some polyfoam wired buds. I've ever tried to make fondant flowers before, beyond the kind you can do with plunger cutters. My best friend recently got engaged and she's having a party soon to celebrate. I've said I will do a cake for it as a present and I'm keen to decorate it with some beautiful roses.

It was a little bit of a learning curve, but I think they have turned out okay for a first attempt. I could explain how I did it, but it's much easier to tell you to watch this video 

So here they are. I think I'll crack it completely on my next attempt