I made this cake for my dads 85th birthday garden party. He likes flowers but the poppy was made in memory of my mum as she had large poppies like this in her garden
I used a large poppy cutter for the petals. The leaves I copied from a real poppy leaf I used a large lily cutter and some daisy cutters and cut into the paste by hand to try and make it look realistic the leaves are coloured with olive green and rain forest green and the edges with white to highlight the little spiky edges that are on a real leaf.