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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

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Lego Birthday Cake

This cake was made for a little boy who quite loves Lego, from what I understand. It is designed to look like three pieces of stacked Lego. The yellow block was chocolate butter cake with chocolate buttercream filling. I tried a new recipe for this cake, from Martha Stewart’s Wedding Cakes book, and let me tell you it was divine. The other two blocks are vanilla bean butter cake, with vanilla bean buttercream filling. Also delicious, but not quite as good as the chocolate. All the blocks are covered with fondant.

Due to some issues with the bottom of the blocks, I had to put a border on them. Not my favourite part of the cake, but all in all it turned out quite well, and I hope the birthday boy loves it.

The pictures don’t do these little beauties justice! Half were mini-cupcakes, and half were regular-sized. The cupcakes were lemon, with a coconut buttercream frosting. They tasted pretty good if I do say so myself.

Regular-Sized Flower Cupcakes

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.