Flower+Cake



How I made this cake--
=== I came up with the idea of a flower cake on my own. Before I started the cake, I wanted big flowers on the top and bottom, with a leaf pattern going around the sides, but with the pillars stuck on the cake, the big flower on the bottom wouldn't work, so I decorated the entire bottom with just the leaf pattern. I think it looks better like that anyway. :) ===

 Process--
=== Rolling out the fondant was HARD. Our kitchen table was still wet from when I wiped it off and when I started rolling the fondant, so it stuck to the table. Trying to make the fondant flat is like trying to flatten a brick with a wooden rolling pin. As you can see in the picture below, once I rolled out the fondant enough to fit over the cake, it was wrinkled, ripped, and torn. I had to cover up all the bad spots with frosting. I needed very little material to make this cake because I just used leftover frosting, cake mix, and other decorating things. I am SO glad this cake was my last, although decorating cakes is way more fun than writing any old research paper. It gets a little tiring when you have to designate 5 Sundays in a row just to get a cake finished. But, I did and I did better than I thought I would. ===

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