The cake stand came today!

So, I looked into the cake stands in my other blog about cakes, and decided I liked the 3 separated tier's.

I scoured the internet and found you could rent these cake stands for £50 - £100 plus a deposit incase of damages. Fair enough I thought. But then I looked on Ebay/Amazon and found I could purchase the same cake stand for only £40! Not only cheaper but then the cake stand is mine to keep/use/sell or whatever once I'm done.

So I took the plunge and ordered it...it came today and I got rather excited and photographed me building it...it was just a simple matter of a couple of screws...these photo's may seem a little dull, but I thoroughly enjoyed it and cannot wait to have cake to put on it :D

The Box (I know dull)

Opened it! need to assemble!

Don't worry...you get instructions! super easy!

Got the screws?

Checking all the bits are there.

First tier put together

Second tier added

Third tier and the handle

You cant see too well here but I have popped the plates into each tier

Better shot of the completed stand!

Its actually bigger than I thought but that's a good thing :) means more room for cake!

Button mould

So...if you read my last but one blog "cake...everybody loves cake" you'll have seen the little button shaped moulds I was toying with. Well I ordered one, and it came today. Here it is..! (Squee!) 

I bought some regal icing and some marzipan just to test how hard it is to press them out. 

Well...the the regal icing was very sticky and difficult to turn out...icing sugar did not cut it to stop the sticky...but cornflour did, as advised by the company I bought the mould from. It was difficult to turn out the icing without effecting the shape...but the marzipan was much easier to turn out! 

So Andrew made a cake...just sponge with a nice jam filling...and I used the icing and marzipan buttons on it...see what you think?

The plan is for the buttons to be purple...so next will be to experiment with food colouring possibly!