Been Busy

I think I said in one of my blog entries this week that I was busy.  Well all is now revealed.  I have been making a birthday cake for a friend.  I remember her getting one a few years ago at a Stamp Camp as her birthday just fell at the weekend and her saying that despite the fact that she made cakes for everyone she never had one of her own before.

Well now, Jo, you have one.  It is not a special birthday with a nought at the end of it or even a five, but it is your  birthday tomorrow and so I am delivering your birthday present a little early as I am away over the weekend on one of the ArtsyCrafty weekends.

The cake is a fruit one, hope it is nice and moist, and it has been marzipanned and then iced and there are handmade flowers (sugar) on the top.  I am pretty sure Jo is a bit of a "purple" fan and so that determined the colour of the main flowers - but the rest is white.

As I gave up cake icing years ago and don't have the various cutters any more for making the sugar flowers I had to enlist the help of my friend Margaret.  She helped me and had an alphabet set so we could cut out the lettering instead of doing it all as run outs.

A purple ribbon around the base to echo the one in the spray of flowers and some piped shells (was amazed I remembered how to do these)  finishes it off.