Moonstache

Having never actually decorated a cake before, i thought that this would be a relatively simple design to try.
I bought a piping bag and made up a batch of royal icing. I wanted to use the transfer method for the royal icing to give it a nice smooth finish and so that i could have the branch overhand a round cake. The piping itself wasn't too tricky and it looked ok.
On to the cake: Chocolate beetroot for a nice rich dark cake. I covered a board with foil and royal icing to make a sky. Then I mixed up a nice cream cheese icing with yellow food colour to cover it. Because everybody knows the moon is made from cheese.

Then came the tricky part: removing the royal icing plaque from the grease-proof paper. It didn't work. I must have gotten the mix wrong ans it stuck in parts and crumbled in others. So i was left without birds on a branch.

With only a few hours to go I couldn't make a fresh plaque, so I decided to go for broke and pipe direct on the cake. Bot of course wet liquidy cream cheese icing does not make for a good bace for piping.
The initial piping didn't look to bad but it bled almost imediately and turned into a blobby mess. But let's post anyway. And it was delicious.