Button Flower Cake

This weekend I went to a baby shower.  On top of bringing the cookies I made last week, I also brought a cake.  It was a three layer white cake with raspberry mouse filling and butter-cream icing.

First and second layers filled with raspberry mouse.

                               

Cake iced and with a basket weave design on it.

The cake fully decorated with flowers!

 The flowers on top of the cake are made out of fondant.  I made a homemade fondant out of marshmallows which tastes a lot better then store bought, and is a lot cheaper.  I used the Wilton Button Flower Cut and Press set to make the flowers.  I found it really frustrating to get the flowers out of the press and I was going to make more flowers in teal, but I didn't think I had it in me to make anymore.  I was also going to by the leaf press, but I knew I didn't want to cut out any more.  I think my problems were coming from the homemade fondant, and not using the store bought, which as a slightly different consistency.  The end result still looked pretty good!

Top of cake