Fall Festive Wedding Cake
I'm so excited about this one! I used a double fondant technique: chocolcate fondant over peach colored, and made leaf and flower cutouts in the chocolate to show the peach underneath. I, of course, made gumpaste flowers: roses, mums, fall hydrangeas, berries, freesia, maple, oak, ivy, and mum leaves, mushrooms and acorns. Also did leaf cutouts that were embossed with a silk roller. Cake flavors were dark chocolate w/ amaretto-espresso IMBC and lemon cake w/ rasp and lemon IMBC; vanilla IMBC under fondant.
Wow, Beautiful Work
GORGEOUS!!!! 8O Excellent job! ;-D
GORGEOUS!!!! 8O Excellent job! ;-D
This is one of the most beautiful cakes I've ever laid my eyes one! Just breathtaking!
I love it! did you need to do anything special to keep the fondant from sticking together when you cut out the leaves? Just let the first layer harden a bit?
I love it! I have been dying to try this technique out with teal fondant under chocolate fondant and I think you have given me the push to just do the damn thing.. :wink: It's marvelous and your GP work is impeccable. Bravo!!
:o 8O love it!
I knew this was yours before I even opened it! I am a a big fan!
They look so real, I'm amazed! Did you airbrush color or dust?
You have every right to be excited. It's gorgeous!
absolutely GORGEOUS. Love the cut outs!
Gorgeous!! I love how you use dthe cutouts and stuck them on the cake as well. Fantastic cake- you should be proud!!
Great job !! Love them !!
Wow, amazing cake!
OMG!!!! Absolutley remarkable!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
OMG! This is a FABULOUS cake! I love it! Your attention to detail is incredible! What an amazing artist you are! :D
These are simply AMAZING!! Are you sure these aren't real?? lol...Beautiful job!!
Wow!! Your work is amazing!
It's perfect. :)
so beautiful and stunning.. I love the cutouts and your flowers are perfect!
Wowwwwwwww....Fantast!ic
Fantastic!
by far, MOST fabulous wedding cake i've ever seen! 8O
Absolutely beautiful !!!
Really REALLY beautiful. I love the flowers! I wish I could have the patience to learn GP...!! it's a wonderful cake!
Wow! Wow! Wow! This is a work of art! Every detail is spectacular! The flowers are amazing! Outstanding work!!
Stunning. 8O
These are beautiful! At 1st glace I thought they were real!
Beautiful, I bet the bride and groom loved it. Very elegant for a fall theme.
Stunning, it is beautiful and perfect - no wonder you are excited.
Wow!
Thats so cool! I keep kicking myself for not signing up for Colettes class. She was teaching how to do that. It looks so hard to do. Is it?
weirkd - it's not as hard as it looks. This was my first time with the method and I didn't have any real problems. I would say to let the first layer harden first then do the cutouts right after the second layer is applied so it's still soft and pliable.
8O OMG! this are the most beautiful flowers in gum paste I had ever seen!!
Gorgeous design and meticulous work!!! Your flowers have me speechless--they look so real!
Just beautiful. Thank you for sharing the technique you used - its an amazing effect (and your flowers are pretty terrific also - when I saw the close-up you posted I couldn't tell if they were silk or made!)
I just can't imagine the time and patience to make all those gorgeous flowers. What a labor of love.
merissa - after I applied the peach fondant, I put it in the fridge (using IMBC so I always put fondant cakes in there until needed) then I sprayed it very, very lightly with water on the top and a little around the sides so the chocolate would stay in place. I did the cutouts as soon as the chocolate was on so it would still be pliable and the peach would still be hard. Also had to work VERY quickly! Thanks everyone!!
cakelady - I always dust. I like the velvety finish it gives to the flowers.
Amazing!