Wine Bottle Birthday Cake

Today's cake was a last minute order for a 3D wine bottle. It was created out of vanilla cake with vanilla buttercream and covered in fondant. I surrounded the cake with modelling chocolate wood shavings and created a faux-bois box out of gum paste. There were a lot of fun elements to make on this cake and I was thrilled to be able to learn how to make my bottle shiny with edible varnish.