Hi everyone, I am just looking for some constructive criticism I am new to this ( this is about my 5th cake) and am about half way through my second Wilton course. I love doing this so just wanted to share the cake I just made and see where you think I can do better. Its covered in vanilla butter cream, gumpaste shoe ( I saw all the cute shoes and really wanted to try one since I can't take the Gumpaste class until Jan) and Royal Icing drop flowers. Thank you!
The cake is in my gallery the blue and white one - it wont let me upload it here. I just realized I also forgot to crop my mess out from around the cake...oops
Thank you ! The shoe actually is my very first try - I printed out a template and scaled it down, rolled it out and cut it with a pizza cutter since I have no gumpaste tools. I was pretty happy with it - it took FOREVER to get that dark color though because I had no black so I think I used almost a whole jar of royal blue coloring.
Just wanted to add bashini that your cakes are absolutely beautiful! I can't wait to try fondant but I'm scared
I think the cake looks great! The only thing I would say is to practice your lettering...this is something I'm always working on and never happy with but it's a nice detail to try to perfect. Your shoe is great! Haven't tried shoes yet! LOL!
For having made just 5 cakes it is super nice.
Good job on smoothing the icing
Terrific job on making that shoe!
How to make it better? Work a bit on improving your shells. A shell should have a tapered tail w/a bit larger top. Yours are the same from top to tail 
I think your cake is very nice and looking through all your cakes you can see a great improvement.
I am also a beginner and I don't think you should be afraid of using fondant. Many find piping much more intimidating than decorating with fondant and gum paste. I wish I could take a class and learn proper piping skills as well. 
Thank you everyone for all your advice and for looking!
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