Lace and wedding cakes are a classic combination, whether the lace is piped on or made from an edible cake lace mix. Here are some wedding cakes that I made that had lace on them, most of them piped with buttercream. Lace and pearls wedding cake. This cake had pale yellow icing with white lace […]
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Cutting a cake can be confusing because people refer to “wedding” vs. “party” serving sizes, and there are multiple ways to cut cakes efficiently. Because of that, cake serving charts can give very different counts as far as how many servings you get per tier. How big is a cake serving supposed to be? The
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This cake was covered in fondant that was textured to imitate the look of ruching on fabric. Ruching is basically small gathers that form a surface that has ripples on it. I started this cake with the inspiration of the ball gowns from the 50’s that had ruched bodices, but ruching is still used a
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Winter is the time for snowflake wedding cakes…These are some of the ones that I made, each with a slightly different twist. Silver gumpaste snowflakes cake. The snowflakes on this one were gumpaste, chocolate and rice paper. They were made with a combination of molds, piping and paper punches for a three-dimensional look. Piped snowflakes
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When you want a wedding cake with hydrangeas on it, the best option is to use gumpaste because real hydrangeas are toxic and wilt really quickly! These cakes use gumpaste hydrangeas that won’t wilt in the heat like real ones will, don’t need a lot of water to stay nice-looking, and are food-safe. Should you
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These wedding cakes all featured gumpaste flowers as a focal point. Sugar flowers are the classic for a lot of wedding cakes, and gumpaste is the most common way to make flowers that can look very realistic. A single large gumpaste focal flower. This wedding cake is a good example of how a cake doesn’t
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Fresh flowers on wedding cakes are a classic choice, but there are things that you have to be careful about. First, when using fresh flowers on a wedding cake, make sure that the stems aren’t inserted directly into the cake, because they’re dirty, and because they can possibly drip fluid from the stems into the
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These cakes had either fresh orchids or gumpaste orchids on them. Orchids are a pretty economical flower because you can buy a stem that has multiple flowers on it that you can take off and use individually. Gumpaste orchids. This wedding cake had gumpaste orchids and scrollwork on buttercream. I put some silk white luster
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These are some of the wedding cakes that I made that had ruffles on them. Ruffles can be made from fondant, gumpaste, wafer paper, or a combination of fondant and candy clay. Each material will give you a different look, and will make cutting the cake more or less difficult! Hand-piped buttercream. This wedding cake
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Silver wedding cakes are tricky because it’s hard to get a really metallic silver with food-grade materials. A lot of silver luster dust has aluminum in it, so you can’t always get a silver that’s shiny. Using grey is one solution, and using metallic elements in smaller areas on the cake can also work. Silver
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