I had done a bit of practicing with different attachments to see what effect i like, and for this cake i chose to do a weaved effect around the edge of the cake. I wanted at first to do the basket weaved effect in a brown coloured butter icing, but decided on pink in the end because it makes it look different and more appealing.
So once i decided what design i was going to do on the cake i started making it. I used a yoghurt cake recipe and used mango flavoured yoghurt's to get a fruity flavour cake. I made 2 cakes with the intention of sandwiching them together. I wanted to keep the mango flavour for the middle of the cake. So i mashed a fresh mango - once it was fully mashed it had produced a lot of liquid as well so i decided to wring it out in a tea towel to try and lose some of the moisture.
Once I had wrung it out enough i mixed it in a bowl with some icing sugar, then used this to sandwich the 2 cakes together.
I covered the entire cake in vanilla butter cream and then covered it in white fondant. I mixed up my pink butter icing and used the weaved tip to make a basket effect around the entire cake.
As soon as this was done i had to put it in the fridge as the butter icing was warming up. Whilst it was in the fridge I made a selection of flowers from fondant icing. and then arranged them on a section of the cake.
I finished the cake off with icing writing on the top and i dusted a few of the flowers with edible glitter.
A simple and effective cake! Lets hope she likes it!!
