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!