My best friend saw a rosette smash cake my mom did and asked if it was a hard technique. I said not at all. We looked at lots of different ones and she and I agreed we liked uneven rosettes of varying sizes rather than the measured, precise ones.

Chocolate cake with chocolate ganache filling and French meringue buttercream. Transporting it even a little ways in the summer was not fun, but it turned out to be the showstopper of their very simple wedding.