Saturday 31 May 2014

Wedding cake

So my good friend got married last weekend. Everything was amazing.
When she told me she got engaged the first thing I did was cry lol. Then I asked if I could make her cake as a wedding present. She agreed and I cried again.
I have made cakes in the past, even a wedding cake once, but nothing of this big. At a real hall, with professionals, for over a hundred people.
From the moment she said I could make the cake I bombarded her with pinterest pictures, and ideas of things I thought were awesome. She shot me down a lot, but she gave me a lot of freedom too. They gave me a few parameters they did not want fondant, they only wanted one tier of cake, and they wanted cupcakes.
I was so excited I couldn't wait to get started. But being cake I couldn't very well make it much sooner than the week of the wedding. So I kept looking at pictures and getting more ideas.
I fell in love with the look of these soft rosettes. It just looks so romantic and delicious, and the bride agreed. I also saw these cupcake liners. The bride had told me that the decor was going to be spring inspired with green, red, and yellow colors. I thought they would be perfect. She also agreed. So I bought them in red, yellow, and a green grass design.
Then I had a major breakthrough. 3 colors.. 3 flavours!! We had already decided that the cake itself would be chocolate. Knowing the bride and groom rather well, I made his and hers flavors. Chocolate cake with peanut butter filling. Cola cake with crown royal buttercream filling. Then one more flavor. I went back and forth and back again trying to decide on the third flavor. I knew I wanted vanilla cake because the other two flavors were chocolate. I thought maybe a maple bacon, or something fruity. Nothing really clicked. Then I got it. Salted caramel.
I decided to keep all the buttercream natural. Even the cupcakes has the same white buttercream rosette on top. I dug out a little divot from each cupcake and filled it with each individual flavor.
 After months of anxious waiting, it was finally time to bake. I had originally decided that I would make 4 layers of cake with butter cream colored for the wedding colors between each. But because of a silly mistake I ended up with 6 layers of cake lol.
 I am so happy with how the cake turned out. (Even though my oven broke and I made enough chocolate batter to encircle the earth twice lol) I was even happier to see how happy the bride and groom were.