Elegant Ivory & Lavender Sugarpaste Celebration Cake

I love making celebration cakes, beautifully decorated in fantasy sugarpaste flowers. I had this idea of using large, overblown flowers on my Mother’s 80th Birthday celebration cake, in soft subtle tones of ivory and lavender.

I made the sugarpaste flowers by cutting a flower shape in 3 sizes on my new Cricut Cake Machine. I used three four different sized bowls dusted with cornflower to act as formers, after shaping the petals with a cone tool (I know I’m meant to use a ball tool but personally I get a better result at thinning and ruffling the edges with a cone tool).

The flower centres were made from edible pearls using a half ball mold. I coloured the lavender pearls myself, using a small amount of SugarFlair paste in grape onto white pearls – I’m very happy with the end result and it means that you can always have pearls coordinating with my chosen sugarpaste colour. The soft sheen on the cake and flowers is achieved by using PME Pearl Lustre Spray – I am seriously addicted to my pearl spray and gun!

Most importantly, my Mum loved her birthday cake and I was very happy with how it looked.

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