I learned how to make cupcake cakes with this one. The secret is that you have to stagger the cupcakes so there are no holes in the design and then cut part of the dome off of each one so that there's a little bit of level surface to ice. This one is iced in whipped cream. The design was transferred on with piping gel. It's off center because there was supposed to be writing on the right-hand side. But since it was a workshop cake, the class ended and my friends and family began to devour it before I could get around to putting anything else on it! Oh, well, next time...