Done the tricky bit.

I've done the bottle bit of Steve's cake. It's ok. Nowhere near as good as the one I'm copying, but it's passable. You'll definitely get the gist.

However, I've already made a boo-boo. Although I've put a dowel through the middle of the bottle, I've put the bottle on a very small card (same diameter as the bottle). So that means that I've stupidly only made the dowel the same height as the bottle... it should have been much, much longer so that it can go into the cake to keep it stable and in place.

Now I'm not sure what to do. I can try and remove the card from the bottom of the bottle and try and remove the dowel. However, what I don't want to do is to crack the paste - or, more accurately, the glaze on the past. It has several coats of confectioner's varnish to give it a shine, like a glass bottle would have.

Hmmmm... I'll re-assess the situation in the morning and make a decision then.

Oh, one more thing. I smashed up the sugar/glucose that I boiled up earlier today. O.M.G. It shatters like glass and goes everywhere!!!!!!!!