Blue Bow Christening Cake

To start of with I made the huge bow which took a couple of days to put together, lots of drying. To make the bow first start with a disc of fondant for the bow to be built on, then to make the loops I used a roller with multiple cutting rings that could be set to an inch width, the loops are 7" long on the bottom row and there's 6 all together. The top row I made the loops slightly smaller at 5.5" and there's 6 including the top loop. To ensure the loops didn't drop during drying I scrunched up cling film and placed in the middle to hold them in place. It took a day to dry for best results. Once the loops are fully dry take a lump of the sugar paste and place in some water to make it slightly gummy stick this to the dry disc and then its ready to poke the bottom loops in first along with some glue. For the second row I put the loops in at random angles to give it a more realistic look. Again allow this to dry fully before picking it up (best to give it another day to dry). To finish it off I placed a sugar pearl on each loop.

The bottom tier was a fruit cake provided by the customer which wasn't decorated and the top tier was a Victoria sponge. The fruit tier was covered in marzipan before I placed the white fondant on both tiers. The quilting effect was done straight away along with the sugar pearl as it would cause cracking if done after the fondant had dried. 

The name cubes are small cubes of fondant with the letters drawn on with edible pens.