Roses Birthday Cake

The Rose cake was a chance for me to try making roses a different way from previous times. They are formed around a Mexican hat shape of fondant and you build the petals up round that. It's quite fiddly compared to wired flowers but still looks effective.
The cake is a Victoria sponge with strawberry jam and butter cream filling with a thin layer of butter cream around the outside to help affix the royal icing to the cake.
I got to try a new gadget out as well that marks out a guideline to pipe pearl garlands around the cake.
The cake was for Bev as a gift for her mother's birthday and I have been told that it didn't last long which is always a good sign.