Pink ruffles & butterflies

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Two tier cake with my first attempt at some Maggie Austin ruffles. And “attempted” to freehand paint the little girls nickname Din Din – never again. Lesson learned is try to make somekind of stencil or transfer onto cake first, save the cringing every time i look at it.
Extended top tier of 8" tall (and a complete disaster to ganache). If anyone wants a Leaning Tower of Pisa cake – give me a shout because i cant seem to keep a cake straight for love nor money so i should really ace Pisa cakes (any tips on how to ganache a really tall cake and keep it straight will be grately appreciated)
Pink inside with pink buttercream, sugar flowers and butterflies. Home made number 2 topper of sorts.

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28 Comments

CakeHeaven by Marlene commented about 10 years ago

Wow, what a lovely cake!!! Very beautiful!!! Love it!!

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MarilynT commented about 10 years ago

So very pretty. Love the white flowers and gorgeous gilded butterflies.

Karen's Kakery commented about 10 years ago

I think its beautiful xx the ruffles are exquisite and the butterflies are gorgeous xx
I haven’t made a cake yet that I thought was 100% perfect. There’s always something we wish we’d done differently xx

karen,Gwynedd

Elli Warren commented about 10 years ago

I looked at this and faved it straight away because I thought it was beautiful!!, Then I read your description and I think you are way to hard on yourself!! I think it looks perfect, everything is gorgeous!! :-) x

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June ("Clarky's Cakes") commented about 10 years ago

Lovely cake!! I think your lettering is wonderful…I agree with Elli…your too hard in yourself. Cake was for a child..so the simple writing absolutely fits the theme!!

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SugarMagicCakes (Christine) commented about 10 years ago

This cake is gorgeous! It looks perfectly straight to me :-) So very pretty, you should be proud of yourself and keep practicing the freehand – dont give up! ♡

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Laura Loukaides commented about 10 years ago

So so pretty!! Xx

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Sophia's Cake Boutique commented about 10 years ago

Very true Karen, we can never seem to get 100% perfect, with me there’s always a drama.

Thank you Ellie, jchuck and Christine, its very kind of you to say. I did actually put one dowel in the top tier hoping that would keep it straight and perpendicular, but somewhere along the way while ganaching, there was a sideways land slide that i only noticed after it was too late and far too much ganache to scrape off and start again, even the dowel inside the cake must have started to lean. Luckily the butterflies are disguising most of that along with some careful positioning for picture taking lol. Oh well..ill keep trying.

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Valentine commented about 10 years ago

Wow love the ruffles, love the flowers.

SugaRush commented about 10 years ago

Very very pretty cake.