This was not what I intended...My original thought was to make the bird cage just royal Icing and gum paste. But do to time I had to change to piping over the cake. I also intended to make branches to circle around the middle cake. I had entered 3 cakes into my county fair and this one took the short cuts to finish 30 minutes before it was due to drop off. But I did get 4th place so Im pretty happy