First Wedding Cake
3-tier wedding cake, round bottom tier, hexagon middle tier and round top tier. Fondant Pleats on bottom and fondant covered middle and top tiers painted with champagne luster dust. Scrolls are made out of royal, which I was not happy with. I think it would have looked better with buttercream! Was a cake for a class and luckily was not for a real wedding!
I love how the cake glitters! How did you apply the luster dust. I have some at home and not sure how it works? Thanks [email protected]
Just mix it with lemon extract or any clear extract and apply with a brush stroke brush (an art brush). It's something you just have to work with to perfect! Good luck! This was my first time to use it, so I know mine needs some work!
very nice, love the pleating, got directions?
The instructions are in the Wilton Wedding Cakes book on page 119. It's very simple really. You roll out fondant long enough to go from the center of your tear to the bottom of the cake and about 10 inches wide. And then you take a dowel rod and put it under the fondant and then fold it over to make the pleat. You only do about 3 or 4 pleats out of 1 piece of fondant so that you can fit it around the cake. You overlap each piece of pleats over the last section of pleats. It's just like sewing.
It's very pretty! Great job!
are your roses real? or what are they made of
Thank you! I'm new at this and the scrolls were made out of royal, not fondant. The roses are silk. I was sick last week and did not have time to make my roses.
I love how the cake glitters! How did you apply the luster dust. I have some at home and not sure how it works? Thanks [email protected]
Just mix it with lemon extract or any clear extract and apply with a brush stroke brush (an art brush). It's something you just have to work with to perfect! Good luck! This was my first time to use it, so I know mine needs some work!
It's very pretty! Great job!
are your roses real? or what are they made of
Thank you! I'm new at this and the scrolls were made out of royal, not fondant. The roses are silk. I was sick last week and did not have time to make my roses.
very nice, love the pleating, got directions?
The instructions are in the Wilton Wedding Cakes book on page 119. It's very simple really. You roll out fondant long enough to go from the center of your tear to the bottom of the cake and about 10 inches wide. And then you take a dowel rod and put it under the fondant and then fold it over to make the pleat. You only do about 3 or 4 pleats out of 1 piece of fondant so that you can fit it around the cake. You overlap each piece of pleats over the last section of pleats. It's just like sewing.