Cake for my Niece’s Birthday

She wanted the something in gothic tones. The cake also needed to be light so had to frost it with whipped cream. Inside, the flavor was Butterscotch Caramel.

As a general rule I try to limit the intake of food colours for anyone who would listen. So I decided to lightly spray-color the cake instead of adding tons of color to frosting. However, it was a disaster, most of the paint (food colouring + water) kept running down the sides and I used up a roll of paper just to clean the board.

I did petals with improvised gum paste (fondant + tylose). They seemed to take forever to dry out and even then they started sagging once I placed the cake in fridge to chill.

Please share your experience/observations working with gum paste and spray colouring.