Adventures in Sugarland: wedding

Tuesday, 21 May 2013

Kerrie's Cake - Roses and Butterflies

What do you do, when two lovely ladies that you know, both ask you to make their wedding cake and their weddings both happen to be on the same Saturday in May? Well, as you have already agreed to the first one, you have to politely refuse the second one - right? Well that is what I did - at first - and then I had a think and made a plan and found a way that I could make both. One friend told me I was mad, to my face, and I'm sure a lot of others were saying it too. As it happens, after five busy days, both cakes were made, decorated and collected or delivered on time. Seven cakes in all.

One of the two wedding cakes, was this three tier cake for Kerrie. The theme for Kerrie's wedding was roses, butterflies and crystals and this is the cake that I designed and made for her. I'm really happy with the way it turned out and Kerrie loved it too. I also made a pretty cake for Karina, I don't have any pictures to show you of that one just yet.

The three tiers of the cake are covered in shell pink fondant and the cake features hand stencilled roses in pink and dusky lilac. The bottom tier is vanilla sponge, the middle tier a dark chocolate sponge and the top tier is fruit cake. I know of at least one person at the wedding that tried a piece of each!

This was my first proper stacked or tiered cake and I will confess that I was a little nervous as I drove it to the venue to set it up. Were all those dowels in the right place? Was the cake going to make it safely? Driving it over reminded me a little of the feeling of bringing a newborn home from hospital - something very precious on board. One of my proudest moments, was placing my mini spirit level on top of the cake and seeing that bubble between the lines.

Warmest congratulations and a virtual toast to Kerrie and Sean.

Cheers!

That's all for today

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Sunday, 28 April 2013

John and Fiona - The Happiest Bride and Groom Ever

You remember a little while ago, I showed you my Wedding Cupcake Preview? Well, this is the cupcake tower that this lovely Bride decided upon. Seven tiers of vanilla cupcakes decorated in shell pink and a soft minty green with hundreds of little pink sugar petunias and the whole tower decorated with fresh flowers. A soft country feel for a beautiful Country Wedding and a lovely opportunity for me to put this together for John and Fiona, friends who live in our village.

Fiona chose a combination of three different cupcakes, one piped with ruffles and covered all over with sugar petunias

This lovely palest pink one, with a soft fondant dome and a butter cream swirl, all to be displayed in these laser cut cupcake wrappers.

And finally topped off with a 5 inch cutting cake. A cutting cake is important to many couples as traditionally cutting the cake is the first thing that the newlyweds do together as man and wife.

And, here it is, the seven tiers of cupcakes in all their glory.

It was an honour and a privilege to create this cupcake tower for such a lovely couple and I wish them many, many more happy decades together. Oh, that's right I haven't mentioned, this lovely couple have already spent three decades together before tying the knot, there were many, many jokes at the reception about the oldest stag in the Forest and the longest engagement in history. Incidentally, the longest engagement in history is usually credited to Octavio Guillen and Adriana Martinez who got engaged at 15 years old in 1902 and eventually married when they were both 82 in 1967.