'Enchanted Garden' Christening Cakes

Claire ordered 48 cakes in an 'Enchanted Garden' theme for her daughter's Christening. We played around with lots of design ideas before we settled on fairies, butterflies, dragonflies and daisies, in a white, brown, pink and mint green colour theme.

I made 24 chocolate cakes and 12 each of vanilla and strawberry cakes and then iced them with chocolate, vanilla and strawberry buttercream.

Claire also asked for "lots of (edible) glitter" - so that's what she got!


12 cakes were iced with vanilla buttercream.


12 cakes were iced with strawberry buttercream.


12 cakes were iced with chocolate buttercream.


and 12 cakes were iced with vanilla buttercream, that was coloured and piped into grass.


Enchanted garden with toadstool.


Daisies.


Butterflies.



Dragonflies.




Fairies.
I can take no credit for the design of these- I copied an online tutorial that I found here.
...I'm not sure how I would have done them, had I not found that tutorial!


A bit heavy-handed with the rouge, perhaps!

Oops there goes another rubber tree plant!

Testing out my new 'grass' nozzle and making some peanut M&Ms ants, means that I've now got that Frank Sinatra song stuck in my head!

My hopes were high, and I think these turned out really nicely. The cakes underneath are meant to be violet flavour: I substituted the vanilla extract with violet syrup, but I don't think I used enough. They are nice, but in no way violety.

The last ant is of the leaf cutter variety. One of Danny's favourite animals: he blames them for any holes on the leaves in the garden.