This last month all we have been thinking about is pansies. And pansy making and a pansy cake. So while making the pansies I took pictures at different stages to show the path from a rolled out piece of icing to a full wedding cake. So I looked through many of the books that we have here in the showroom to find a good pansy instruction and failed to find what I needed. Most called for wiring the icing which I didn't want. I wanted these flowers to be stuck on the cake with no protruding pansies or petals. A lot of the instructions also called for a cutter which I didn't have. So, instead of looking at icing pansies, I searched pinterest and found some beautiful images of pansies and realised that the shape is a rather easy one to mimic. So using a petal cutter I got to work.
Icing is a very forgiving medium to work with and stretches a treat when worked properly. Believe it or not the five petals on the pansies are made using the exact same cutter.
We left the pansies to dry overnight and then got to work on painting them.
The last job was to add the black lines and the tiny dots in the centres of each pansy. The result is this pretty four tier cake. The vibrancy of the colours means that there doesn't need to be pansies on every inch of the cake.
Pansy cake. Perfect for a Summer garden wedding.
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