another cake for any occasion

hi guys i made this cake for my my mums birthday, but this cake could be made for any occasions:

Ingredients for cake:
16 ounces self raising flour
16 ounces butter
16 ounces caster sugar
8 eggs
1-2 tsp vanilla essence
a few drops of water

decorations:
1.5kg of white regal icing
whatever gel colours you want
chocolate chips
flower cutter
star cutter

Method:

1. preheat your oven to 170⁰c  and line the tin/mould with grease proof paper or butter or even the 1 calorie spray
2. cream the butter and sugar together until it feels smooth
3. crack the eggs one by one and add to the mixture. Mix it for a bit and add the vanilla essence and water
4. add in the flour. Once it has been mixed till its light and fluff pour the mixture evenly between the two tins/moulds 
5. put the cakes in the oven for around about 20-25 mins until they have risen well and look golden
6. leave the cakes to cool and then cut around the cake and also trim the top of the cake
7. make the buttercream using the recipe i have put up on my blog for your cake and if you want colour it with GEL colours. If you use liquid food colouring u will have to use more for a darker shade
8. spread a thin layer on the cake all around, place the cake on a cake board
9. colour 1kg of the regal icing a light, pale colour. colour the rest 2-3 different colours
10. roll the pale colour regal icing so it covers the cake if it doesnt work check out my spiderman cake post where i tell you another way of putting regal icing on
11. roll out the different colours and cut about 30 flowers and stars from each colour and scatter them on the cake, it doesnt matter if they over lap. if needed spread a little buttercream on the bottom of the flower
12. place a chocolate chip or star in the middle of a flower, do this to most of the flowers but not all of them

i hope this helped and enjoy

p.s check out my other posts if you have time