Vintage Glamour Wedding Cake: Decoration

Name: Vintage Glamour Wedding Cake: Decoration
Ingredients: icing sugar, to dust; set of 3 blossom cutters (5mm, 10mm, 15mm); 30 mm butterfly cutter; 30 g bag white royal icing; 100 small gold dragees in 2 sizes (optional); I used 50 medium and 50 small gold dragees; 1 pot edible gold glitter; 1 egg white, lightly beaten; 1 small paint brush; 120 cm 5.5 cm-wide gold bejewelled ribbon; 130 cm-plus 1.5 cm-wide cream ribbon; 95 cm 4 cm-wide cream organza; 190 cm 3 mm-wide gold ribbon; 2 small artificial cream or white doves (or other birds); 75 cm 3.5 cm-wide vintage gold ribbon

Preparation info

Difficulty
Medium

Appears in

Bake and Decorate

By Fiona Cairns

Published 2011

About

Ingredients

For the Adornments

icing sugar, to dust
set of 3 blossom cutters (5mm, 10mm, 15mm)
30 mm

Garnish
Dessert
Vegetarian
Gluten-free

Method

To Make the Butterflies and Blossoms

You will need about 12-15 butterflies and about 100 blossoms in 3 sizes (I made 25 tiny 5mm blossoms, 25 medium 10mm blossoms and 50 large 15mm blossoms).

The decorations are applied randomly, so this is just a guide. Knead some of the sugarpaste left over from covering the cakes and drums until pliable, and roll out thinly (to 2mm thick) o