Pink Flower (gerbera) Giant Cupcake

I made this cake for a good friend of mines birthday a little while ago. I wanted to create something that was really pretty and feminine. I decided on a giant cupcake as I really wanted to try out a different technique of icing the top than the ones I had used previously…

I was so happy she liked the cake as it was a surprise. The cake itself was vanilla on the bottom and chocolate on the top with corresponding buttercream. The buttercream on the outside was pipped into the rose swirls with the 2D wilton piping tip which is one of my favourites. The gerbera flowers were made out of gumpaste using the PME daisy cutters in 2 sizes for the petals, which I also used to make the shapes on the board. It was really nice having the 2 different shades of pink which I tried to also pick out in the 2 butterflies.

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