This is a vanilla cake covered in home made fondant . the paste used to make the cake lace is my very own recipe as well! i made the lace a week ago , air dried it without dusting the mat with cornstarch and the lace was released from the mat without issue . i left it on my work bench since with just placing it on an A4 sheet of printing paper and one on top so that n dust settles on it and guess what?!?! IT WAS STILL SOFT AND FLEXIBLE!! it did not dry our one bit ! was not tacky either with amount humid whether we had the last couple of days. so i am pweeety much a happy little lady!! oh and to stick the pearls and letters on the cake i used royal icing instead of water to avoid the black bleeding onto the white fondant.