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White and Silver Wedding Cake with Roses

This is a very simple white wedding cake with silver ribbon that I made recently. The bride was providing her own roses, and as I was not present to get pictures of it…in order to show you what it may have looked like, I confess, I photoshopped on the roses.

The cake inside was vanilla with vanilla buttercream filling, and it is covered in white fondant, with silver ribbon around each tier. This cake could easily be made any colour of the rainbow, or jazzed up in any of 100 ways, simply by changing the ribbon or say, the colour of the roses:

Wedding Cake with Yellow Roses

 A simple cake like this, with a topper of fresh or gumpaste flowers, is the perfect cake for the budget-conscious bride.

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

Hi Everyone!

I know there haven’t been any new cakes in forever. I will post some this week, I swear. In the meantime, I have started up a blog at http://domestique.today.com

Head on over to read all about the new stand mixer I just bought! The blog is devoted to all things domestic, not just cakes, but whenever there is a cake-related post I’ll link to it here.

In the meantime, I’m looking for ideas for my WEDDING CAKE! Yes that’s right, I am engaged as most of you know, and I have finally decided that I will be doing the cake myself. The big day happens October 3, 2009, and our colours are chocolate brown and cream. (Tasty!) The flowers are likely going to be pale yellow and pale orange, and probably some cream ones thrown in there for good measure.

I have a few ideas up my sleeve, but I’d love to hear what you guys think would taste/look good. So leave a comment and let me know!

Cheers,

Heather

For detailed information on how I made the tiara from the Princess Cake, follow this link and have a read:

http://weddingstyle.suite101.com/article.cfm/homemade_wedding_cake_topper

I would also be happy to hear from anyone who has comments/tips/suggestions on working with melting chocolate to make these sorts of creations!

Hi Everyone,

As you can see I have been AWOL for some time. Later this week I will be posting pictures of some children’s birthday cakes I have done recently. In the meantime, check out the article I wrote recently on wedding cake trends for the upcoming Spring season:

Wedding Cake Trends for Spring ‘09

I will be frequently posting articles at Suite101, so make sure to check back here often - I will link to all cake-related pieces.

Delicious!

-Heather