cut here says HAPPY BIRTHDAY!

For many years my Mother has designed and decorated cakes, both as a hobby and as a small source of income. Mum mainly specialised in wedding cakes of the tiered variety, and as well as baking and icing the cakes themselves, she also hand crafted flowers of every type from icing, and painted them with food colouring - quite a skill! (see below). As children, my sister and I had all of our favourite cartoon characters, or whatever we happened to be into at the time, morphed into icing form ready for a birthday celebration. One of my favourite things to do as a child would be to look through the book 'Character Cakes' which had pride of place on our bookshelf. For my 21st birthday, Mum as always asked me the type of cake that I wanted, and knowing that I wanted something simple, and being obsessed with scissors, the above cake is the result. Although deceptively simple, the scissors were actually quite difficult to cut in icing, due to their fragile nature. I didn't actually want to cut the cake, even though I had a guide in the shape of the dotted line...