The Birthday Cake - part 2, assembling and decorating

On Wednesday I did all the preparation to assemble my birthday cake. Thursday night I put it all together and did the decoration.

I cut the tops off both cakes to make them flat before sticking them together with chocolate frosting and covering both cakes with chocolate frosting.

I dyed two more lots of white icing in yellow and orange. I then covered the cake in the yellow icing

*Helpful hint*

When covering a large cake with rolled icing, roll the icing onto baking paper to prevent it from sticking to the work surface. It also makes it easier to pick the icing up to cover the cake.

After covering the entire cake with the yellow icing I set it aside and rolled out the pink and orange icing onto a piece of baking paper. Cut shapes out of the fondant and place onto the main cake. I used three different sizes of flowers for this cake.

 After finishing the flowers I placed two strips of pink fondant icing approximately 1cm wide along the centre of the cake in a cross shape and made a decorative bow out of fondant to place on the cross point on the top of the cake.