My Newest Cake Creation!!!!!

This past weekend was my niece's birthday she turned twelve. I do not know where the time went it seems like yesterday she was setting in my lap on my lunch break picking green beans out of my vegetable soup. For her birthday she asked me to make her a cake. She gave me a guilt trip, because I have not actually made her a cake in the past 4 years. She even had it all picked out when she called me. So Friday I spent all night baking, and decorating. I love baking and creating I honestly wish I had more time. When she called me she said she wanted a black, and gold cake. I tried to talk her out of black, because it usually taste bad. No matter what I said she was dead set on those colors. I had never done gold, and absolutely have never done a full tier in black icing. Thanks to my wonderful friend she made a quick trip to the cake store on her way home, and picked me up everything I need to do the gold tier. I used white butter cream icing on the top tier and I used can gold mist eatable paint to color the top tier gold. I used one can of the mist to color. I would spray and then let it set in the fridge to dry. I repeated this step at least ten times. Then I used the second can to wet the outside of the icing in order for the gold sugar crystals to stick. I covered the entire tier with the sugar crystals. I also learned a new trick for black icing. If you use chocolate icing and color it with black gel coloring. The chocolate holds the black a lot better than the white butter cream, and it does not take the large amount of black coloring that causes it to taste bad. Of course she wanted to cake inside to be pink. Here is the final product......