A Wedding Cake sidebar for the day...

So some of you might know that I am employed in the bakery industry. I have been decorating cakes and pastries to pay for school. I have a blast doing it, meeting lots of great people, Red Seal bakers, talented decorators, and all-round crazy people who also start work at 5 am..

So when my cousin's good friend had a last minute time crunch for her wedding, I was asked to make the cake. EXCITEMENT!

The theme was Malaysian ( if i recall correctly...) for the groom's heritage.

There was a unity symbol on the side, and a cherry blossom branch on the finished cake.



I made the cherry blossoms by cutting gum paste with a flower shaped cookie cutter.

I then used a wilton gumpaste tool and a flower shaping sponge, and pressed the flower into a 3D shape.

 The centres were made by putting a dab of royal icing in the middle, and sprinkling yellow edible glitter in them.

When dried the flowers looked like this

The cake itself was a 2 tier, 4 layer chocolate cake with chocolate raspberry butter cream icing as the filling.

This was a first for me using chocolate cake, and the recipe was not as dense as I had expected when baked, which isn't ideal for a fondant cake.. Unfortunately, this made the fondant not my smoothest, but it still looked pretty good after a 20 minute drive in my passenger seat. At least - from what I was told - the cake itself was delicious, and I guess that's the important part. Who doesn't hate going to a wedding and getting tiny pieces of dry crumby cake with thick starchy fondant on tip..

I am going to call this one a success!