Blingy Wedding Cake

I know I've been MIA for a while due to work and such, but here's a wedding cake I did this past weekend. Simple, clean and BLINGY!

I do think I'm getting the hang of fondant covering, which I've had so many problems with in the past; cracking, air bubbles, fondant sliding off, you name it. I was really happy with this one!

Cake underneath is Victoria sponge, with vanilla bean frosting.

Winter wedding cake

I did a big wedding order this weekend!  100 strawberry champagne cupcakes with a 6 inch top tier.  All of the cupcake wrappers were handmade.

My Wedding Cake - part 5

Here are some pics of my finished wedding cake! Everyone really enjoyed it, and I had fun making it!

This was a whiskey sponge cake with rum buttercream icing and mango curd in between each layer.

My Wedding Cake - Part 4

Almost showtime!

Here are some covered mini cakes!

Here's my disaster area! ;)

~Leisl <3

Playing with food...

AKA My wedding Cake! part 2-

I really enjoy the taking pictures part of making cakes. It's like doing a fashion shoot. It's a skill on its own.

This was a white chocolate/whiskey cake I tested out, adapted from a Peggy Porschen recipe. It wasn't whiskey-ish enough though, but it tasted amazing! Very caramel-y. I threw some lemon curd on it to see how it would taste, and of course the lemon just overpowered everything else. I would like my cake to have some sort of tropical fruit involved though. Probably mango. Maybe lime. More testing MUST be done!

OMG I'm getting married in 3 weeks. Let me freak out just for a second.

O_o

My Wedding Cake! - Part 1

I'm getting married at the end of the month!

Our wedding is going to be really small and casual. A lot of it is DIY. Like these invitations I made! Y'know, cause I'm all artsy and stuff...

And of course, I'm making my own cake! It's going to be a mish-mash of our various cultures (Caribbean/Irish), and of course will include lots of booze! I've been experimenting today, so stay tuned for more posts to come!

~Leisl <3

Silver Cascade of Roses and Dragonflies

Wedding cake order I've been leading up to for Saturday, and my very first delivery cake!
10, 8, and 6 inch layers of lemon/poppyseed cake, with lemon buttercream.

Here's a pic of the inside, from an earlier test cake:

The Making of a Wedding Cake

So much scurrying around and finishing of details! Can't wait to post the final product!

Spring Lilac wedding cake

This Saturday I finished my first wedding cake order! It was tons of hard work, and this one had the extra challenge of being gluten free. But I ended up finding something that worked (after some interesting experimentation), and everyone seemed ot enjoy it. This is a cake with chocolate and vanilla layers, almond icing, covered in fondant and decorated with fondant lilacs.

I must also give props to Nicky over at Small Things Iced. Her dragonflies inspired the ones I did here (although no where near as awesome ^_^).