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.

Flowers!

My Wedding Cake - Part 3

Lots of sugar flowers being made!

For our cake I chose the hibiscus (for the Caribbean side) and clovers (for the Irish side). The only cutters I could find were 4 leaf clovers... but I guess they'll come in handy around St. Patrick's day anyways!

It's really nice to be able to use the skills I learned in London!

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:

London - Day 21

So guess what? I'm sick! AGAIN!!! I can't believe I've been sick twice in a row! I also had a really late night Thursday planning my mise-en-place (schedule) for exam week. Stayed up 'till 1 am, with no dinner! Scheduling and calculating ingredients is harder than it sounds, trust me!

Friday was more business talk with Peggy and her husband Bryn. Pretty much all the nitty gritty about setting up your own business! It's a pretty daunting topic, but Peggy and Bryn are hilarious together, so it was a cool, down to earth chat.

After that we had a guest speaker, International Wedding Planner Sarah Haywood. Who taught us a bit about the wedding industry, and how to work with planners.

image © BarkerEvans.com

I knew I heard her name somewhere before, and then she told us she was covering the Royal wedding on CNN last year - that would explain it!

Unfortunately, me being sick meant feeling really really drained, but I took as many notes as I could for reading later ^_^

Such good information, I really feel like my website needs a redesign now, lol.


ON TO DAY 22/23