Guava cake revealed finally

I know it's been a while since my last post.  Things have been a little hectic in the past month.  I got a 2nd job (well 4th if you count my main job, my cake hobby, and being a PT SAHM) and added another day to my work week, signed up for several continuing ed courses, and was busy making cakes.  With all of that going on, I just didn't have any downtime to add to my blog.  But, tonight, I decided to just MAKE the time to create at least one new post. 


My last one was on how my guava cake had bombed and I kept meaning to post a picture of it, but life got in the way and a month or so later, here it is.

This was definitely not one of my better cakes overall.  The cake and icing combination didn't complement each other and my icing job definitely had many imperfections due to me trying a different technique.  It's called the upside down method.  Basically, you ice the top of the cake, put a cake board on top once you're done, then you flip it over and cover the sides.  This should help to even out the icing on top of the cake.  However, it appears as though the wax paper I covered the cake board with had numerous wrinkles and left marks in the icing (as you can see in the bottom picture).  It was also very uneven on top and the edged weren't very clean.  In addition, I decided to let my son help me put some of the flowers on and his contribution were his knuckle prints :-)


I did get to finally do the diamond pattern I've been so wanting to do for the longest time.  I finally got me a diamond impression mat and so I used it on this cake, along with the stitching/quilting tool to make it look like it was sewn .  That was one the one thing that I was happy with.  I can't wait to use it on a fondant covered cake to get the quilted look!


And an hour later, I'm finally done with this short post because FB kept pulling me away!  


Have a great one folks!