Square Wedding Cake

My very first Wedding Cake. I made this cake for a a couple I know. It was done a week before the wedding and it was the week after I had just finished my daughter's Dora cake. The groom asked me if I could make them a fondant cake since they were told that a 2 tier buttercream would cost $280.00 and that the fondant would cost more than that and they were on a rather tight budget and schedule. Since I more or less knew them (we both worked in the same field) and I'm kinda' a sucker for romantic stuff, I agreed to make them a three tiered one for a little less than the buttercream one. ( Hey, it was my first wedding cake). Originally they were going to put fresh flowers on top and I wasn't going to make the roses (it was discussed that the price I quoted was sans the roses, also, I never made them before) but I had some extra red gumpaste, I figured what the heck, its good practice and they can take it or not (it was free - my gift to them since I knew them. It was also good PR :D). Good thing, they took it with the roses (whew - I needed the petals to cover some "booboos"). I know it is a little off to the side but they said it was okay (I'll do better, next cake, I hope). The cake is alternating tiers of chocolate and butterscotch caramel with Chocolate butter cream and MMF. It was the first time I used MMF and all I can say is that it definitely tastes so much better than the commercial one I usually use. The flowers are gumpaste as I had mentioned.

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