Grandma's 80th Birthday Cake
A carrot sheet cake, with cream cheese frosting!
Cant forget the cupcakes!!
Those are gum paste Gerbera Daisies. I purchased a sunflower cookie cutter and instead of laying them flat (like a sunflower) to dry, I used old egg cartons to form them. Lined the holes with tinfoil and gently pressed them in. There are over 55 of them. It took a few different nights to do all of them.
I also made little circles with the extra dough to use on future cakes. Gum paste doesnt have much flavor, but keeps for months. All the kids wanted to eat the flowers, but to their surprise, they dont really taste like much of anything. I used gel food cloring.
There she is, sweet old Grandma!
