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that is so pretty! do you prefer making bows using gumpaste than fondant?

absolutely! I like that it can be rolled much thinner and dries a lot faster...plus it hardens really well, just overnight. My fondant bows took a week to get hard.

So pretty! Nice job!

Beautiful Cake. I like how you used different groupings of dots on each cake.

very pretty. so elegant. like a pretty easter dress..

Your cake is beautiful I love your bow.

This picture has convinced me to start working with gumpaste, beautiful!

did you trim the edges of your cakes or use a specific pan to get that lovely rounded look?

Absolutely stunning! Just out of curiosity, what's Tahitian vanilla? Thx!

I trim the corners of the cake slightly with a knife...mostly so that my fondant doesn't tear at all as I am covering my cakes. "Tahitian vanilla" is the vanilla bean from Tahiti, like Madagascar vanilla...they have slightly different flavours depending on which region the bean is from.

That is just beautiful!! I have a lilac/silver wedding cake to do for August 16th ... I'm not very excited about what the bride picked out for her cake lol ... your's is stunning antonia74!!

Beautiful cake!! You did an amazing job!

LOVELY!!

Elegant looking cake, looks perfectly done!

I love this! I am making a wedding cake with a bow this month--I was going to use fondant, but I think I'll try gumpaste. Thanks!

Do try the gumpaste. It's so much easier (and faster) to dry it...especially in this awful humidity! Good luck!!

Awesome cake! Can you share how you put the bow together? I was going to try one next week and put it together with candy melts.

can i have a copy of recipe of your lovely cake?

Simply elegant! Fantastic job!

For my bows. I do gumpaste loops around a 1.5" wooden dowel that is dusted with icing sugar (about 20 for each bow). I let them dry for one day, then I slip them off and let them dry for another day. I learned a great trick off this website to assemble it in a small bowl...which I think is brilliant! I use matching royal icing to glue it all together nearly invisibly, then I even transport it to the wedding still in that bowl, safe and secure!

Gorgeous! this cake looks perfect. I hope my cakes look this good one day!

This looks just perfect!! Please share you recipe for strawberry buttercream. Thanks!!

sure, Ljkforester. It's Martha Stewart's Italian Meringue Buttercream with fresh strawberries that have been pureed with a hand blender. You can even use frozen/thawed berries, just don't add too much liquid or the buttercream can get too runny and won't mix correctly.

Beautiful,

BEAUTIFUL!!!!!!!!!!

Absolutely flawless! Simply beautiful

The one thing about this cake that I like the most is your (positive) attitude to share and answer all the questions by the other fellow cake decorators. It says a lot about you Antonia. Keep up the great work as evident here.

My daughter said "this is a very pretty cake!"

lovely...

I am also appreciative of how sweet you are to share your recipes and tips...thank you!!!

Perfection!!

beautiful bow - so simple and elegant

Beautiful! It is just simple elegance. Not overdone, not a lot of fuss...just perfect! I also make my bows (just started!) like you! I agree about the matching RI and the bowl! It makes it so easy!

awesome cake!! outstanding work. i have a question- did you get your tahitian vanilla cake receipe from here? i have been looking for this receipe and cannot find it here. do you mind sharing? thanks!!!

I love this cake, just a quick question...when coloring the gumpaste I have had the purple seperate on some flowers (tops blue and bottoms pink) how did you get the color consistant?

Aundrea, sorry...I have a company I share with a business partner and I can't pulish our recipes to others. The only recipe I can share is mine for royal icing, as that was mine before the business started. ChristianDonovan, not sure what's happening to your purple?? Try using the Americolor brand. It's a much truer food colouring.

I just made my fondant bows tonight and they have just less than a week to dry, so I am thinking now I HAVE to try gum paste! Sounds wonderful and I love how thin your bow is, makes it look more real. So my question is, what's this about a bowl? How and Why?? Stunning cake by the way!

thats really pritty. What did you make the bow out of?

HELP ! .... I have been trying several times now to make a bow like you have done . I am getting so frustrated. could you please tell me how wide you cut your loops and how long are they ? I have cut different widths and lengths and then when I try to assemble it the whole thing falls apart.How utterly frusrating!

Pastrychef22, it's gumpaste. Jbaker, there's a wonderful lesson in making these bows. See the blue "Articles" tab at the top of every page on CC? Click on it and scroll through the how-to lessons listed there. (I've PM'ed you the exact one.)