All done with butter cream frosting. Hand smoothed and I used 3 layers of cake for the bottom and middle tiers and 2 layers for the top. Then carved some of it down to do the shape of the pumpkins. Then made indention's against the Viva paper towel to make the pumpkin ridges or grooves once I had the butter cream on good. Came back and used my air brush to add dept and shading.