Well, the crown cake is done.
Did it come out okay?
Rachel
This was, quite simply, the biggest pain in the butt to ice. If I ever do a crown cake again, I will do it very differently.
1. Instead of trying to carve a cake into connected triangles, I'm going to cut individual triangles laying flat. Than I will stick them on the crumb coated cake and attach with a piece of spaghetti just barely long enough to stick out about 1/2 an inch past the cake. Than I will crumbcoat and frost the cake.
2. I will take a #12 tip and pipe icing on the sides and tip of the crown. Than basically smooth. It's easier to take frosting off of them than put it on.
3. No matter what, I'm going to require an icing color totally different than the rest, cuz I hate the blue on blue on blue.
Rachel
I don't know if you were working with frozen or thawed cakes, but for ANY carving I have to do it is always on a Frozen cake that has sat out on the counter for about 5-10 mins. I have less crumbs this way and it gives me more time to play around with it, if it thaws out to much then it goes into the freezer again. Then a do a very sloppy crumb coat and let crust over in the fridge. Then I come back and do my final coat, then let it crust on the counter.
But I think you did a great job! I really like the idea of the tootsie pop jewels!
I think it's great! You did a very good job on this. 
Thank you. I love the tootsie pop idea too, I wanted the large flat suckers, but no one in my area carried them, so blue tootsies it was!
Rachel
I think it came out great. That is a very clever idea and you can relax now 
it might have been a pain in the butt but it turned out well. I too love the tootsie pops cute idea
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