Masooda Rahman @soods

Design Decisions

My design process was one where I first had to decide how many tiers and what size of tiers I wanted to use.  I could not decide if I wanted the cake to be three tiers or four tiers.  What I did know was that I wanted there to be a double barrel tier, no matter how many tiers I used.  I then used the app, tiered caker, to construct and visualize both a 3 tiered and a 4 tiered cake.  I also knew that I wanted my top tier to be a maximum of 5 inches in diameter and each tier would be a difference of 2 inches.  Once I had a visual representation, I preferred the four tier cake because I felt as though it flowed just like the dress.

I personally like to work very closely to the sketch that I have drawn out.  Although I do tend to add a few extra embellishments once I have started to decorate the actual tiers.

My first step in creating my cake was to order all of the dummy tiers. I also had to order sugar sheets and then take a look at what moulds I had collected that would fit the theme of the cake.  I then began coloring all of my fondant and covering my tiers.  Once the tiers were covered, I started to work on each tier, from the top -downwards.

While making the cake, I did run into a few complications.  I knew I wanted the base fondant to be a grey color.  I personally find grey to be a difficult color to achieve.  Often when coloring fondant grey it looks more lavender- I had to find a balance of adding yellow coloring to get rid of the purple undertones.  While doing this I ended up adding too much yellow and obtaining undertones of green!  I quickly added more white fondant and thank goodness the situation remedied itself.  Another complication I ran into was while I was covering the tiers.  I started to cover the tiers the standard method, but because of the amount of color I had added to my fondant the fondant began to tear quite easily.  I remedied this by using the panel method, and I was quite pleased with the results. 

I did not have to make any changes to my original plan, because I based my sketch on supplies that I already had or that were easily accessible to me.   Also when I did run into any issues I used the wonderful world of the internet to troubleshoot. The cake decorating community is so large and helpful that almost all issues have a remedy online.