04
Oct
Author: Heather // Category:
Fondant,
Royal Icing,
Wedding
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
13
May
Author: Heather // Category:
Buttercream,
Party Cakes,
Royal Icing
Mother's Day Cake for Mom
Side view of Mom's cake
Mother’s Day has come and gone, and with it, this yummy cake that I made for my mom. This was a yellow cake, frosted with vanilla buttercream (the best batch of Italian Meringue Buttercream that I have made, in my opinion) and filled with mocha buttercream. It is sitting on an embossed, fondant-covered board (apparently I loved that technique!) and is decorated with royal icing leaves, roses, drop flowers, daffodils, pansies, an apple blossom or two and one chrysanthemum. The border is reverse shells, although in some spots it doesn’t look very reverse-y. My one regret is that the word “Mom” is crooked!! I must have had the cake crooked on the turntable when I wrote it. D’oh. Oh well, my mommy loves me anyway, haha.
04
May
Author: Heather // Category:
Fondant,
Project Cakes,
Royal Icing,
Stringwork
Well, allow me to proudly present my most recent achievement. This intricate cake was the project cake for my most recent decorating class. It’s a dummy, not real cake.
- Stringwork Cake In Sunlight
There’s a lot going on here, and some of it is hard to see in the pictures, but I’ll try to explain. Firstly, on the top we have a royal icing basket, covered with royal icing pansies, daffodils, and roses. Coming out of the basket are tiny tiny roses on wires. The cake and board are both covered with fondant, and the board is embossed around the edges with a little diamond design. On the top four corners of the cake are teeny tiny royal icing roses and leaves.
Moving to the sides, you’ll see oriental stringwork, pink and white drop flowers, a heart design in purple colourflow, and itty bitty little white hearts where the strings on the bottom join.
Did it come out perfectly? Technically, no. Some of my strings are wonky, and I still have trouble with large roses. But I think the overall effect is quite stunning, and I learned some interesting new techniques that I will be practicing. So, yay for me!
11
Apr
Author: Heather // Category:
Project Cakes,
Royal Icing
- My final project cake for Wilton Course 2.
Another cake that is over a year old! This one was for my second Wilton Course, so I had to make the cake from the book. If I remember, this was just a box mix cake (since it was just for a class and I was in a hurry) with a pudding filling, and vanilla buttercream. The flowers are made from royal icing, the leaves are buttercream, and the bird is colour flow.
