Butterfly Cake

My second fondant cake!
My dear friend's daughter Sophie is turning three years old. I didn't even think twice to offer Cristina to make her daughter's Birthday cake. The theme was pink and since she loves butterflies I thought straight away that i'd use fondant since i've been wanting to experiment with it more. I googled cake photos and tutorials and figured i could make a beautiful sweet cake with butterflies.

Stage one:
After reading some magazines and books I decide to try to use marzipan before covering my cake with fondant, just to get a nicer smoother finishing. Really worked the cake came so smooth that didn't even look like a cake. But confess that I will never use marzipan again. First I tough was very hard to rolled it, the amount of oil that releases almost made me change my mind about finishing the cake, but was too early to give up. Took me almost 2 hours to cover the whole cake.

Stage two:
I moist the surface of marzipan to add the rolled fondant, at least with the marzipan was easier to add the fondant, without braking or lumps.
When I finished I start to make all the details to decorate the cake, I made about 12 pink butterflies and 10 little flowers, also I need to make a bowl but I have no idea how do to one, so thank's to youtube videos was possible to learn how to make a beautiful one.

After everything dry, I took another 3 hours to decorate te cake, also add lot's of edible pearls, that gives such a beautiful touch to the cake.

Finally after 2 days of work, about 14 hours I finished the cake. I hate my handwriting so ask my husband Jai to do it.