Wedding season has officially begun:-) This bride is a friend who has been great to work with and chose a cake that I have made in the past just with a different color scheme. As with any cake endeavor, the cake batter mixing, baking and frosting making take the majority of the time required for the project. I couldn't do it without my trusty
KitchenAid.
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What a lot of sugar! Once I got all the cake layers baked I started making frosting. This large tub was one of two I used to frost the main cake and two sheet cakes.
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The wedding reception was a Friday night so starting Friday morning I got everything out and started to assemble. The 12" gift went together quickly and then I topped it with the 8" square rotated to give it the 'gift' feel.
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Once I get the whole cake frosted with the base layer I always breathe a sigh of relief. No matter what the project, I always feel like I can relax and let the creative juices flow. The mechanics of the cake can be put aside and I can let my decorating skills take over.
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This cake needed to have a gold element so I decided to use plastic beads applied to the edge of the ribbon icing. It was a challenge to get the beads to lay flat but I really like how they define the ribbon and make the cake pop. For the 8" top gift I used
Cornelli Lace, a technique that always adds an elegant feel and gets lots of comments.
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The 12" cake features polka-dots to add a little
whimsy to the cake. Now it is ready for transport across town and to get its topper and flowers!
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In addition to the gift cake, the bride also needed two 1/2 sheet cakes to have enough to serve approx 150 guests.
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As in the past I drop off the cake a couple of hours before the reception and then the florist comes to finish off the flowers. So I had to wait until the reception to see it finished! I love how it turned out with the fresh flowers and the 'M' on top. Congratulations Annie and Pete!
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