Garden Party Baby Shower Cake

by Kimberly Rivers
(Falkville, Al, USA)

Garden Party Baby Shower Cake

I made a 10"- 8"- 6" yellow cake. All are frosted with buttercream icing that I tinted green. I frosted it with a look of moutain type green by taking a knife and pulling away from the cake at diffrent spots.
Most flowers are made with a fondant by a press that has a flower shape. All other flowers I hand made. The ladies bugs are made of fondant, tinted red and then I used a very thin floral wire that I painted with black food coloring paste as well as the dots on the lady bug. The bees are made of fondant as well. I stuck the wings in with toothpicks. I painted the eyes and stripes with black food coloring as well and then took the bottom of a cake tip to indent the smile on the mouth. The bow was made of fondant. I used a paper towel roll covered with parchment paper to shape the bow.
The little sign on the bottom was made of fondant and I used food writers to write the baby's name on it.
The butterflies are picks.