Alumni cake

This is cake 1 of 2 for this week. Both cakes were pretty involved and took a lot of work but I think they turned out better than I expected!

This cake is a marble cake with vanilla buttercream and fondant accents. The fondant accents were colored yellow and then painted gold with luster dust. I'm happy with this cake but purple is such a challenging color to work with. It does crazy things to my buttercream!