Becky's cake of roses

a bunch of roses for a special friend who turned 21 the other day!
blogging is back on track now since our move back to rome and getting internet
up again etc etc. so i am going to be adding the last few posts from
south african baking that i never got around to while i was there... in the next few days..hopefully.
my kingdom for adsl!

these two-tone buttercream roses are piped using the icing tip from the Carnation Cupcakes post.
its a bit more complicated than piping individual roses but well worth the sweat!

what a happy face! haha, it was early in the morning! so. this cake is made using
the hersheys black magic cake recipe.
then using buttercream icing slightly ice the cake chocolate for the bottom half,
vanilla for the top half and choc icing in between the two layers. this will make sure
the piped buttercream you are about to ice does not get fall off the cake.
and as you can see i iced the stems in lumo green buttercream (electric green gel food colouring)
i used a giant cupcake shaped baking tin which looks like this

got this pic from here but its basically the same tin i used. its cool hey!

then started icing the roses, one by one and it gets quite tricky

voila

made a bow and ribbon out of coloured plastic icing
and stuck it together with water and buttercream 

piped details in buttercream icing with this handy little gadget a friend gave me for christmas.
its like a silicone icing syringe and you can get it from At Home stores in south africa

and there you have a beautiful bunch of roses
and a yummy chocolate cake when you get tired of looking at it!

Happy birthday Bex!