Hearts & Roses Engagement Cake

Four best friends were celebrating the engagement of one of their gal pals and they needed a cake. For the lucky bride-to-be is this simple yet sweet hearts and roses cake with a pink, white and black theme. 

connect the dots

lovin' the whimsical swirly roses

The cake is Devil's Chocolate Food Cake filled with whipped chocolate ganache and iced with chocolate French buttercream. Seems like a popular flavour these days, since the last three cakes I've made have all been the same!

All of the decorations on the cake are made using fondant. If you can believe it, it was the little black & white hearts that took me the longest to make because I didn't have the right size heart cutter. The writing, the dotted lines and the big heart were drawn on using Wilton Food Markers. See, they write just fine on fondant but I'm having trouble using them to write on Candy Melts. 

Congratulations, Mrs. Gill-to-be!