Jon and Jess' wedding cake
The week after I made my first wedding cake, the class project, I made a small white wedding cake for my friends Jon and Jess' wedding. Their colors were cinnamon, chocolate, and copper, and their flowers were daisies. They gave me that info and told me to run with them. I knew that my friend Mario was making the main cake, which was chocolate, and that it would be elegant and proud, so I decided to make mine more whimsical and light hearted. I also knew that Mario would be using real edible flowers to decorate his cake, so I asked him to set a few aside for me to use as a cake topper to tie the two together a little bit.
Base white cake filled and frosted with Italian buttercream
Two tiers--the bottom tier was three round layers, and the top was two thick, oval layers
Royal icing flowers in the wedding colors; I almost used chocolate to pipe the flowers, but I was afraid it would be too warm, and plus, it's the white cake for a reason--for those who don't like chocolate! I didn't feel like fussing with dying white chocolate, though I had some fun ideas for flowing colors into white chocolate outlines. I also wanted a 3D quality to the flowers, and I got exactly what I wanted with royal icing.
Almost done
I didn't take any photos myself of the cakes, but the wedding's awesome photographers got a few gorgeous shots. Here are a couple of links to them showing the two wedding cakes and the groom's awesome grand piano chocolate cake, made by the groom's cousin:
candlelit
the three amazing cakes
There are a couple of things I would do differently:
* making the flowers ahead a little more ahead of time instead of just the night before to make sure they dried all the way; the chocolate color used a significant amount of food coloring, which made the icing slower to dry
* be more careful about prepping a cake board--I used wrapping paper to wrap the boards because I didn't like the gold and silver boards, but then I had to lay down a sheet of parchment paper cut out in a giant daisy so the cake wouldn't grease up the wrapping paper. It worked out, but I could've wrapped over the wrapping paper in parchment or cellophane and made it more decorative and colorful to make the cake pop up from the board
Base white cake filled and frosted with Italian buttercream
Two tiers--the bottom tier was three round layers, and the top was two thick, oval layers
Royal icing flowers in the wedding colors; I almost used chocolate to pipe the flowers, but I was afraid it would be too warm, and plus, it's the white cake for a reason--for those who don't like chocolate! I didn't feel like fussing with dying white chocolate, though I had some fun ideas for flowing colors into white chocolate outlines. I also wanted a 3D quality to the flowers, and I got exactly what I wanted with royal icing.
Almost done
I didn't take any photos myself of the cakes, but the wedding's awesome photographers got a few gorgeous shots. Here are a couple of links to them showing the two wedding cakes and the groom's awesome grand piano chocolate cake, made by the groom's cousin:
candlelit
the three amazing cakes
There are a couple of things I would do differently:
* making the flowers ahead a little more ahead of time instead of just the night before to make sure they dried all the way; the chocolate color used a significant amount of food coloring, which made the icing slower to dry
* be more careful about prepping a cake board--I used wrapping paper to wrap the boards because I didn't like the gold and silver boards, but then I had to lay down a sheet of parchment paper cut out in a giant daisy so the cake wouldn't grease up the wrapping paper. It worked out, but I could've wrapped over the wrapping paper in parchment or cellophane and made it more decorative and colorful to make the cake pop up from the board
Comments
Danny, thank you so much! I was a little nervous about whether or not I could make it look the way I wanted, but it worked out!
Jennyfer, thank you!
And IMHO I think your cake steals the show ;)
(P.S. Good Luck to the new bride and groom!)
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The bride and groom are two of the awesomest people I know! I wish everyone could know them. =)
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