Of course I had another reason as well - the desire to decorate my own. Ever since I was a child and my mum discovered an amazing cake making and decorating shop in Reading cake decorating has been a hobby of mine. Every year I would decorate mine and my mum's birthday cakes and I did quite a few Christmas cakes and birthday cakes for my friends as well. However, decorating the cake was one thing, I didn't feel capable of making it as well which left me with a problem.
Marks and Spencer was my saviour. Whilst I briefly considered buying one of their pre-decorated cakes I still didn't want to spend £200 if I could help it.
So I bought several of their "Traditional Wedding Cakes" which can be bought tier by tier in different flavours. I bought a medium fruit cake and a large sponge cake to provide 2 tiers. Sadly they don't do a round chocolate cake so I bought 2 rectangular chocolate cutting cakes to be kept in the kitchen and served later.
The decoration was obvious to me as soon as I had my butterfly theme in mind. I wanted it to look as if several butterflies had landed on the cake.
I bought some butterfly cutters which also imprint veins onto the wings along with some flower paste (very fine icing paste). The paste sets hard so all I had to do was roll it out, cut out the butterfly and then prop the butterflies up so that they set with the wings at an angle.
Finally I used dusting powder to brush the wings and give them a bit of colour.
Since I only had 2 tiers for the cake stand I used the same decoration as for the tables on the bottom instead. I had also made lots of extra butterflies in case any got broken in transit and these were placed around the bottom for extra decoration.
The cakes themselves totalled £72 and I spent roughly £15 extra on the decorations, though I still have loads of paste and powder left if I ever want to make more decorations.
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