Last night was a long, long night. I got to bed at 3.15am.

But the cake looks great and the customer loved it! :o)

I was really, really struggling. I was starting to seriously panic about the pointy roof bits (what is the proper word for them?). My original plan was to cover ice-cream cornets in lots of small circles of sugarpaste, to look like tiles. Well, I started to do one of them. a) they weren't sticking particularly well, b) they didn't look good and c) it was taking forever. When hubby came to in to say goodnight I told him and he said 'why don't you paint them?' I thought that I'd show him what a silly idea that was and mixed some shimmery luster dust with a little confectioners glaze and painted one of the cones. IT LOOKED FANTASTIC! So I did them all like that and whilst the glaze was still tacky, I sprinkled over a little edible glitter. They really did look so pretty. Unfortunately, the picture doesn't do it justice. The pink cake was also dusted with a little shimmery luster dust.

Again, because it was the first time I've done this cake I've learnt a lot. I realy don't think it would take me quite as long next time.

I hope there is a next time, because I did enjoy doing this cake. However, I would like to find another way to do the pointy roof bits.