Tips needed for making a cake like this...

[jennimoo]

DD is 3 next week and has requested a Thomas cake, but pink, with flowers and butterflies (among other things!) I have a 3 week old so don't fancy trying to make Thomas so thought a cake a little like the picture would be a good plan, with a toy on the top.

So I've been making fondant flowers and butterflies when I get chance, plan to cover in ready coloured fondant icing and then stick the bits on and finish off.

1. what's the best thing to stick the flowers on with? Water?

2. I thought I'd pipe grass round the bottom with my grass nozzle and possibly stems and leaves on flowers. Should I use royal icing or butter icing?

Any other tips / ideas?

Use icing as glue to stick the flowers etc on, I would use royal or water icing to pipe the grass.

I always stick fondant on with gin, as the excess evaporates away and it doesn't taste.

If you are being cleaver and doing 3D butterflies and flowers, not flat cut outs then a bit of royal icing is what you want.

The flowers are flat but I'm going to try and do some butterflies with the wings 'bent' so I guess I can use vodka for most of them (don't have gin!) and a little icing for the shaped ones.

Thanks for the answers, beginning to wonder why I said I'd make it!