I’m really not much of a cake decorator, but my son asked for a Titanic cake and he was very very specific with his wishes, so I tried to make it happen :) I had fun making the moon and sky background especially; it was my first time working with edible paint and fondant. There’s also edible glitter on the ice shards at the front of the cake, but those didn’t really show up in the pic.

I’m still not pleased with the blue buttercream. I just can’t ever seem to get my buttercream to look pleasingly smooth like all y’all do; it ends up dense and putty-like on the cake even though it appears fine in the mixer bowl. (Recipe is just 1c softened butter, a bit of vanilla or other extract, tiny bit of almond milk and then powdered sugar until the texture seems right).