Cherry blossom cake
This is a perfect cherry blossom cake combinating soft brown and pink colors on two tiers.1 cover two round cakes with marzipan and sugar paste, then stack centrally on a 125cm round cake board lined with ivory sugar paste.
2 Trace the cerry blossom design on to a sheet of greaseproof or tracing paper and scribe on to the base and top tier of the cake. Colour one third of the royal icing with chocolate brown food colouring. One third with pink and one third a paler pink.
3 Fix a lenght of pink ribbon overlaid with brown ribbon around the base of each tier with a little royal icing. Tie a bow with a piece of brown ribbon and fix to the ribbon on the top tier, over the join, with a little royal icing. Fill 3 piping bags fitted with no.1.5nozzles with the different coloured royal icing. Beginning with the brown icing, pressure pipe the brances following thw scribed design. Whit the pink icing, pipe pearls to make the cherry blossom, adding either a peler or darker pink centre for authenticity. Fix the 15mm ribbon round the cake board with a little royal icing and done!
Here is the blossom pattern zoom and print.