My friend has asked me to make her wedding cake, which would consist of 3-4 tiers. She wants two tiers to be chocolate cake with white chocolate buttercream and one or two tiers buttermilk cake with lemon buttercream. My question is would it look ok to make a cake like this, with the two different frostings? There will not be fondant to cover it up. I'm wondering how similar the color of frostings will be. Anyone tried this? Should I not do white and color the frosting?

Thanks

There shouldn't be much of a color difference if any at all. I have also made a white chocolate buttercream with a little lemon extract in it and it tasted great. Then you could use the same batch of icing, just divide and flavor.

Use a lemon flavoring that doesn't have any color to it...Lorann's lemon emulsion is white, I'm sure there are others as well.

I'd do vanilla buttercream on the outside of the cake and use the flavored buttercreams between your layers. That's the primary reason all my tiers are 4 layers of cake with 3 layers of filling - the buttercream on the outside of the cake only goes to a small number of guests so might as well have it be neutral and flavor-profile matching.

Same as FromscratchSf and Lisa Peps..