Spring flowers

Spring time means misting rain or cold sunlit afternoons, cherry trees, and the smell of green + mud. This early springtime cake is a six inch round vanilla cake  filled withwhipped chocolate ganache, covered with butter cream frosting. It marks my first foray into the world of gum paste and painting. The result is a cloudy spring day cake.  At first I stuck to cherry blossoms, but then the other flower shapes were too much fun to ignore.

Painting is still almost entirely mysterious to me, "Why does this colour + that colour = THAT color? How did I get that texture? It looks great on the plate, but it doesn't translate to the gum paste. WTFBBQ?"
 Something at the edge of this plate has gone terribly wrong. "Apparently those colours won't give me a darker purple. Noted."

Gum paste is slightly less intimidating now. Drying gum paste flowers, painted in a "I wonder what happens if..." fashion.

Favorites of the batch

Cake! Vanilla butter cream frosting, chocolate tree, and gum paste flowers with luster dust.

Sunlight plus cake equals...nomnomnom