re: Please help! Complex decoration on cake

You need to mark the quilting and then make fondant strings to cover the quilting impression. I have an extruder to create the string. I am not very good at piping so for the middle tier I would make the scrolls out of fondant and let them dry out so they become stiff and I can attach to the cake. The gold decorations are probably made out of a mold then painted in gold.