A couple of pictures of a lovely cake I made recently. Slightly wonky writing on the cake but I don't think anyone noticed. I used to not like buttercream at all when I was little but now I can't get enough of the stuff - the recipes nowadays make it much lighter and fluffier and with a teaspoon of vanilla extract it is delicious (too delicious as my control tights will confirm..) The vase behind the cake is a huge pink and gold one that one of my sons bought me for my last birthday - it looks gorgeous but you have to have a huge bunch of flowers to fill it so it usually languishes on a shelf. I'll post a picture of it where you can see the flowers just because it looks so good and it's a rare event :)