Sometimes, certain things are just meant to be. After a busy past few weeks at Elizabeth's Cake Emporium, I was thinking about how nice it would be to make an old school type cake.

Specifically, I had a basket weave cake in mind but I kept thinking of how I could give it a modern twist. By sheer coincidence, I had a lovely client contact me specifically to request a cake with lots of botanically correct sugar flowers for her mother's 70th birthday party. The reason she came to us was because she was very impressed with our sugar flowers and she felt confident that we would do a great job (no pressure then!).

In turn, as her mother used to work at Kew Gardens,  she has an expert knowledge of how her favourite flowers should look and her expectations were also high. 

We set to work in creating a white wicker basket of flowers with an arrangement that included sugar roses, hydrangeas, freesias, lilies, three types of orchids, assorted greenery and even sugar butterflies. Each flower was gently put in place as anyone who knows how fragile sugar flowers are can understand.

The client's reaction to the cake when she came with her husband to pick it up was amazing. But better still on the day after the party, I received this note which made it all worthwhile :0)