Christening Cake - finished!

Well here it is - the end product.  One 9" round Christening Cake.  Not too bad considering it is 12 years since I created a Royal-iced cake in earnest!  (but at least I know that when it comes to making the stacked royal-iced wedding cake later in the year - everything should work out ok on the technical side, as I there will not be visible boards between the tiers on that one!) 

Here is a close-up picture of the side design:

For those of you that might want to know the technical details - the cake was actually placed on a dtt board (double thick thin) before marzipanning.  Then three coats of icing put on - top one day, side next (three times) and then a final watered-down coat applied to the top and then the side.  (at least when I come to do the wedding cake, apart from the bottom tier I shan't have to iced any boards, and to prove that the cake would come off the board, I ran a very fine palette knife around bottom edge and was able to successfully move the cake.   In fact to prove it worked, I actually placed the cake on another board whilst I iced the cakeboard (would normally do this with cake in situ).  So am pleased that my idea worked (icing collegues think I am mad to tackle a stacked royal-iced wedding cake - so that may well be a First! -watch this space in August!  The worst part will be rodding the cakes - not an easy thing to do on a royal iced cake - but I have a plan!)

ps.  We are also having a sponge cake to go with above cake for those that don't like fruit cake - but DIL has ordered a plain M&S one.   So just got to make some flowers for that now!   Shall probably tackle those tomorrow as we were going to the Make-It Show at Farnborough and it has been cancelled due to the weather forecast!  hey ho!