Sides are covered in chocolate hazelnut rolled wafer cookies cut to size. Flowers are royal icing covered in copious amounts of pearl dust (it was my first time and I like shiny things.) I spent all week making flowers for this cake with many of them turning out poorly so the night before, I had to make yet another batch of flowers and was running out of time. I made some that I just sort of made up, but i think they look somewhat like zinnias. They managed to dry completely over night with the help of a fan and a cooling rack, so problem solved. The cake is devil's food, frosting is made with nutella, and then vanilla buttercream in a thin layer on top so I could color it. It was a huge hit and now my mom thinks I'm the best cake decorator that ever lived. She's so cute.