A Special Cake!

It was my parent's Golden Wedding Anniversary last week.  Mum made a cake, and we both made little fondant roses to make a posey to go on the top.  The cake was a fruitcake, like Christmas cake.  Mum iced it with pale yellow Royal Icing, and piped around the base with "Golden" icing.  This turned out to be "too yellow" for Mum, so we made some paler yellow, pink and white roses with fondant.

The technique I got came from a book I had for Christmas called "Sweet Temptations" which is a brilliant book.  Its really easy.  Although, I do have a friend who likes to cut large daisies out of fondant and fold the petals up and over each other which looks REALLY easy, I don't have one and there wasn't time to get one so I had to do it this way.  I'm afraid I didn't take photos of the process, so you'll have to take my word for it!

I found this video on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uzp3XfhUpQ4 This is the way I did it.

My friend has a daisy-cutter, and does it this way: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E4SfgfnzzXk it looks SO easy!

Wondering what that sheen is on the icing?  That's edible shimmer.  You can buy it in tubes from good kitchen departments and stores, just get a clean paintbrush and brush it on, you get a lovely satin shimmer to your work, and it often makes it look even better than it did before! :o)  Yummy!