My First Attempt At A Wedding Cake :)
Decorating By hailinguk Updated 20 Sep 2013 , 2:32pm by CakeGeekUk
This is my first attempt at a wedding cake. The pics not great as my iphone doesn;t have a flash. I'm so pleased with how it turned out. I can't believe I made it! It's a 10" (dummy base), 8" and 6" vanilla sponge with buttercream and red cherry / strawberry preserve.
I made it for a friends parents wedding tomorrow (who decided last week they wanted to get married on the 35th anniversary of when they first met) so I said I'd make a cake if she paid for the ingredients. I know I could have asked for payment but truth be told I just wanted to see if I could do it (this is only my 4th fondant cake) and was going to practice on a dummy cake anyway. At least I've got 1 under my belt now. This cost her just £40!
I just need to transport it tomorrow now. To think I was going to make a little cake and take in in with me on the 1 hour bus journey ha ha!! Taxi it is...
Beautiful, professional looking custom cake! Well done. The bride & groom will be thrilled to have such a gorgeous cake to celebrate the 35th anniversary of their first meeting. If you have time AND a proper camera, take a photo at the venue with the cake set up for display. Cakes this beautiful deserve to have a proper photograph for your portfolio.
Impressive.
There's a wedding scene in a novel I've been working on, off-and-on, for some years now: My protagonist (a child prodigy organist) is marrying her long-time sweetheart (a trumpeter), and the cake is made by relatives, with each tier a different flavor (including the protagonist's favorite, strawberry marble, which is what motivated me to see if a strawberry marble cake with jam in the contrast batter would actually work!), an organ-pipe-and-trumpet overall motif, and a custom topper featuring the bride playing a chamber organ, and the groom playing a trumpet. (Thankfully, in fiction, you can leave a lot of the details to the readers' imaginations.)
Your cake looks more than good enough to validate the premise of that scene.
Indeed, your cake looks good enough to give all of us amateurs hope of being able to do "wedding-quality" work.
Impressive.
There's a wedding scene in a novel I've been working on, off-and-on, for some years now: My protagonist (a child prodigy organist) is marrying her long-time sweetheart (a trumpeter), and the cake is made by relatives, with each tier a different flavor (including the protagonist's favorite, strawberry marble, which is what motivated me to see if a strawberry marble cake with jam in the contrast batter would actually work!), an organ-pipe-and-trumpet overall motif, and a custom topper featuring the bride playing a chamber organ (something like this: http://www.lammermuirpipeorgans.co.uk/assets/sandtner.jpg), and the groom playing a trumpet. (Thankfully, in fiction, you can leave a lot of the details to the readers' imaginations.)
Your cake looks more than good enough to validate the premise of that scene.
Indeed, your cake looks good enough to give all of us amateurs hope of being able to do "wedding-quality" work.
Impressive.
There's a wedding scene in a novel I've been working on, off-and-on, for some years now: My protagonist (a child prodigy organist) is marrying her long-time sweetheart (a trumpeter), and the cake is made by relatives, with each tier a different flavor (including the protagonist's favorite, strawberry marble, which is what motivated me to see if a strawberry marble cake with jam in the contrast batter would actually work!), an organ-pipe-and-trumpet overall motif, and a custom topper featuring the bride playing a chamber organ (something like this: http://www.lammermuirpipeorgans.co.uk/assets/sandtner.jpg), and the groom playing a trumpet. (Thankfully, in fiction, you can leave a lot of the details to the readers' imaginations.)
Your cake looks more than good enough to validate the premise of that scene.
Indeed, your cake looks good enough to give all of us amateurs hope of being able to do "wedding-quality" work.
Ahh thanks :0) It's funny, when I pictured the cake in your novel I thought of an ivory & gold themed cake with music notes around the base and daffodils in between tiers :)
Hmm. Except for the daffodils (real, silk, plastic, gum-paste, fondant, or frosting?), you're not far off from my own mental image of the cake.
Nice choice of avatar, "hailinguk." When your first wedding cake looks like that, flaunt it!
So did it arrive at the wedding intact? Was it well received?
Ahttp://m.youtube.com/watch?v=f9wlWDvWtHI&feature=related# Hopefully this is the right link to making the pom poms.....beautiful cake
Aside from the amazing job you did on this for your first wedding cake, I love the design! If you have a eye for design, you will go a long way in the wedding cake business Hailing UK - take a bow!
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