I made this 3D tea set cake for my mom for Mother's Day.
She didn't know I was making a cake for her, so when I carried it in she said that she thought I had brought a little toy tea set with us until I got closer. Then she realized it was a cake. That was pretty funny.
The teapot, teacups, and saucers are all cake. I crumb coated them and then iced them with a top coat of buttercream icing. I made the pink trim, handles, and spout out of fondant. I piped the flowers on the teapot and teacups with buttercream icing. I tried to use a paintbrush to pull some of the icing toward the middle of the petals and leaves to give it more of a painted look. The 'tea' in the cups is buttercream icing tinted a tea-like color. :)
The cookies on the tray are actually cake. When I was cooling the little cakes for the teacups on the wire cooling racks the tops of the cakes had gotten little lines imprinted on them. When I cut the tops off to make the shape for the teacups the cut off tops looked like a perfect little cookie. I had purposely made a different set of cookies from cake, but when I saw how nice these looked I decided to use them instead. :) The tea bags are just regular tea bags of course, I didn't make those. :)
My mom really loved the cake! :)
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