I made this birthday cake for my daughter's 13th birthday. I used regular vanilla buttercream and just free hand cut out the black strips of fondant and stuck them to the buttercream. The "M" on top is actually a plastic one I found at a craft store. I colored some of the white buttercream hot pink and just piped it around the edge with a big circle tip. It was an easy cake to make and more importantly my daughter loved it.