hey everyone!

my friend is getting married in august, and she asked me to do her wedding cake (i've only ever done one wedding cake before and it was my brothers so i'm really nervous!)

anyways, this is what she wants & i would like recipes for all of the following that will work really well for a wedding cake & hold fondant great.

cake: lemon
filling: raspberry (with real raspberry) and lemon curd
frosting: lemon buttercream

her theme is a lovebird theme
with the following colors as she stated: "mainly dark grey, chartreuse/bright limy yellow green, and like a vintage robin's egg blue"


also, the wedding is small (30-35 people) so i'm wondering if anyone has ideas for size.. she said either a 2 or 3 tier cake. i'd prefer not to do a dummy cake because i've never done one before & i don't really want it to look different from the other tier, so any ideas with that will help too!

i'm totally stumped for ideas but i want her cake to be amazing! any input is greatly appreciated!

here are some pictures of the colors



(maybe a bit bluer than this)



thank you!

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I can see a dark gray birdhouse, with the robin egg colored bluebirds in front of it... the birdhouse being a small cake on pillars? The bottom tier could be grassy in the shade of green shown with some flowers? I'll do a search for birdhouse cakes! It sounds like a really neat cake to make!

I searched in the galleries and found a few nearly like what I suggested... they're very cute!

http://www.cakecentral.com/cake-photo_1345742.html
http://www.cakecentral.com/cake-photo_1323125.html
http://www.cakecentral.com/cake-photo_1251467.html

thanks for your ideas! but she is looking for 2 or 3 of the same shape tier (circle or square).. sorry i should have mentioned that

here is the wilton serving guide http://www.wilton.com/cakes/making-cakes/baking-wedding-cake-2-inch-pans.cfm a 6 and an 8 inch would give you 36 servings.

so unless she pays for extra cake or the dummy layer (which looks like real cake, and is charged basically the same) sow wont be getting a three tier cake.

as for the cake, what ever your usual sponge and bc is, you can just add lemon to it - extract, zest, juice. there are some good recipes on here for rasberry and lemon fillings too.

those are some tricky colours to work in. does she want the cake white, with coloured details, or can it be coloured? im thinking egg blue love birds on top, some thing viney over the cake, which would work better in that yellowy green. its a shame that grey probably would be weird as flowers though! i wonder if the grey would do birds, and blue flowers.

im thinking cut out love birds in blue round the sides. you could have the cake the yellowy colour, grey piping details.

would she like retro circles, cause i think it would work in all those colours.

oh indydebi just posted a cake http://cakecentral.com/modules.php?name=gallery&file=displayimage&pid=1412748
so thats like the grey colour on the hearts, you could also have yellow hearts, and blue love birds on top.
xx

I just did a similar cake that could easily be made into a 2 or 3 tier cake. You could do the birds in the grey and chartreuse like love birds, instead of brown like this one. The blossoms on this one were a very pale moss green with moss green centers, but you'd probably want to adjust them to something more tropical to go with the theme.

http://www.cakecentral.com/modules.php?name=gallery&file=displayimage&pid=1408172

hi everyone

thanks so much for all of your ideas! but i just talked to the bride, and i envisioned a fondant cake, but she just wants buttercream. the only thing that worries me is the weather. it is an outdoor wedding and i'm wonderng if there is a good lemon buttercream that can stand up to heat? or would i be safer to just use fondant? i live in canada, so its not really humid or anything, just hot.

hi everyone

thanks so much for all of your ideas! but i just talked to the bride, and i envisioned a fondant cake, but she just wants buttercream. the only thing that worries me is the weather. it is an outdoor wedding and i'm wonderng if there is a good lemon buttercream that can stand up to heat? or would i be safer to just use fondant? i live in canada, so its not really humid or anything, just hot. thanks!

indydebi's bc is very good in the heat. but you might want to test it first so you know how it copes.
make sure she knows that if she wants the cake sitting outside for hours, then you cant guarentee that it will look as good as when it started. id be keeping it inside in the ac if needed for as long as possible.
plus if you are using fillings which may need refridgerated (depends how you choose to get that flavour - now id probably go for bc filling with the heat) then having it sitting outside is more questionable.
xx

sharon zambito has a good buttercream recipe and she shows how to make it on youtube.. edna , website.. designmeacake.com.. also shows how to ice a cake and has really good icing recipes on her site.hth