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My First Wedding Cake

10", 8", and 6" rounds. All WASC filled with Raspberry filling and frosted with Buttercream Dream (all wonderful recipes from this site). The buttercream is covered in sanding sugar, to make it look like snow, to go with the snowman cake topper. Flowers are fondant pressed into a Karen Davies 3 rosebud cupcake mold, and then colored with Crystal Colors petal dust (baby pink, raspberry, and fairy pink for the roses; moss green and hunter green for the leaves). The design was mine, but I have to thank my friend Karia and her son Michael for helping me to execute it. My time management skills are awful, and I wouldn't have gotten it done on time or been sane by the end of the process if they hadn't come to help me out.

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New Beginnings Cake

A friend asked me to help her make a wedding style cake for an event called New Beginnings for her congregation's Young Women. It is my first decorated cake, first fondant cake, and first stacked cake since I got interested in doing cakes. The cake is a 10" chocolate WASC with Bavarian cream filling and buttercream dream frosting (it was supposed to be chocolate frosting, but we were in a hurry and had started to frost the cake with regular buttercream before we realized what we were doing) and an 8" WASC with raspberry sleeve filling and buttercream dream frosting. There was supposed to be a 6" layer, too, but it collapsed. I had such trouble with the fondant. It ended up looking awful, but the ribbon hides the worst of it. I piped the triple dots, my friend did the ribbons and the borders above and below them, as well as the wax flowers. With all the flaws in the execution, everyone seemed so impressed, and I was told afterward that there were many compliments on the taste of the cake, too. My friend was thoroughly convinced NOT to attempt any of her children's wedding cakes, and she tried to convince me I ought to sell cakes.

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