Casey & Heather's Wedding Cake
Well I did it - I made my own wedding cake and lived to tell the tale. This monster is a 3-tiered vanilla cake, but each tier was hiding a different buttercream filling. The bottom tier was filled with lemon, the middle tier with chocolate, and the top tier was filled with (my personal favourite) coconut. The tiers were all covered in ivory or brown fondant, and all the details piped in brown or ivory royal icing. The lilies were all made from gumpaste and although I painted them, I did not make them myself. There just wasn’t enough time.
Cake Being Cut
The marbling on the middle tier was not part of my original design; I was going to cover this tier in solid brown and pipe on ivory dots. When mixing the fondant, however, the effect was too cool to ignore. As usual, there were some issues with the consistency of my royal icing, but I was able to make it work. I only tried a bite of cake on the wedding day, but we took home the top tier and I may have snuck a piece tonight. Delicious, and surprisingly moist. I hope the others fared as well.
I will post some other angles of this cake as I get pictures back, but overall I am really happy with how it turned out, and can say that making your own wedding cake does not make you crazy!
Cake at Home
April 19th, 2010 at 9:22 pm
[...] I guess she [I infer this to be a decorator, not the bride herself. Who is crazy enough to make their own wedding cake?] made the top of the cake too heavy, because it all collapsed in on itself before dinner. [...]