Miep's 80th Photo Frame Birthday Cake

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To design this cake for my mother's special birthday, I started with green fondant (her favourite colour) covering the 4 tiers. I created picture frames out of gum paste and royal icing, which I tinted silver with edible lustre dust. I made many orange roses out of gum paste, orange being the colour that we associate with being Dutch. Then I added the street signs of her most significant addresses, including the Valentijnkade in Amsterdam where she was born on Valentine's day. In Holland the street signs, in blue, are attached to the corner house of the street. For this reason I attached the Dutch street signs directly onto the cake. Her most significant address in Canada is in green on a post, as typical of that street. My mom has always loved crocheting, knitting, embroidering and made a living with sewing for many years. I honoured that with yarn, embroidery floss and thread made out of fondant and a crochet hook, needle and thimble out of gum paste. On the embroidery thread and the crochet hook I made a few small references to the number 80, that being her number of years! Lastly are the flags of Holland and Canada, to signify the exciting move my family made in the 1970's. This was an incredible project that was extremely special for me to undertake and I hope you like it!

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[LoriHulstine]

AWESOME!

[Denise46000]

Very nice!