Christening Cake (With Bow)

This was a christening cake made for a friend of mine.  It is a caramel mud cake covered in caramel butter cream, and then with fondant icing.  All of the decorations including the bow are made of fondant icing.  The letters were really difficult.....I made heaps of them that I threw away. There must be a trick to making these....:-)  All the letters are hand painted using edible silver paint.  The bow was made by moulding fondant icing strips around cardboard tubes.  The strips themselves were made using a special cutting roller that ensured that all strips were exactly the same width.  I thought the bow would be difficult to make but it actually turned out to be the easiest......my first bow....pretty happy with the result.