My mom is not a fan of fondant or a fan of cakes for that matter. However, when you're celebrating milestone you have to have cake! So, purple being on of her favourite colours I decided to decorate it with a purple buttercream almond flavour. The cake itself was a recipe from the Wilton site also flavoured with almond. The birthday girl was most pleased.
For this "cake" I made two dozen vanilla cupcakes and arranged them on the cake board in the shape of the rainbow and clouds. To make sure the cupcakes didn't move I added a dab of icing on the bottom of each cupcake. It's not that often that I get to dye icing, or six different colours at once. You can get a really good bicep workout, Miss E was kind enough to lend her figurines as models for the picture. The clouds piped out perfectly. The rainbow was a little more difficult. Next time I would put a base coat on the cupcakes to help keep the top coat more level and easier to pipe over.
She certainly was and the cake was delicious.
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