I have been living and breathing this cake for so long....planning and changing my techniques up to the very last minute! I had a great time making it, but am glad it's over. I have WAY too many hours in this!

CONGRATS

YOU DID A GREAT JOB

Very pretty!!! Give yourself a big pat on the back for a job well done! You should be very pleased. I love the design on the side. Did you do this freehand? I would never be able to get it to look so neat.

It's beautiful!!!! You should give yourself a big ol' pat on the back.

Very nice, beautiful work

That is a gorgeous cake! The gold scroll work is beautiful.

What a beautiful cake, so worth all the effort!

Your cake is beautiful!

Great job! That is a beautiful cake

very beautiful! The scrollwork is lovely

Very, very nice! How did you get the scroll work to be in gold?

Great Job, your cake is BEAUTIFUL!!!

You did a GREAT job!!!!!! Looks like you put alot of time and heart into it. Way to go!!!!!!!

That is beautiful. Very elegant and classy! You should be proud, I would be!!

Now that is beautiful. Love the scrollwork. Two enthusiastic thumbs up

Gorgeous! Good job!

Thanks so much for the compliments! I ended up doing the scrolls
free-hand using using royal icing. I practiced doing them a few other ways and ended up doing it free-hand was surprised at how easy it was! It was very time consuming to paint them gold. Next time, I think I'll just paint the scrolls on and skip the royal icing step.

You did a fantastic job! Your cake looks great.