Basket weave cake

Here is a cake I made for my class that I had to have 8 different flowers on it and 5 of each. So here are all my flowers I made. From top to bottom they are:Top: Chrysanthemum, wild rose, violet, apple blossom. Bottom: Daisey, daffodil, primrose, pansy. All of the flowers are made with royal icing, it was fun but a lot of work.

Then down here we have our color flow items. With this you make an outline of your desired shape with royal icing and then you use color flow to fill it in which makes it smooth and glossy. Then when they're dry you add the eyes to the birds and glue the butterfly wings together with more royal icing and add some antennas.

Now for the cake. I forgot to take more photos of in between the stages so I'll just tell you. We had to make our cake a basket weave so what I did was went around the whole cake first and made all the down strokes. Then I went back and put in the weave. Also you have to add a rope boarder to tie it all together.

Then you add on the flowers and color flow pieces and VOILA!

We used it for Brian's birthday on June 25th. We used trick candles so it took a while to extinguish them. I wanted to put 23 candles on the cake but it was too many so we only did 5
(2 & 3 = 23 :)