Winter is the time for snowflake wedding cakes…These are some of the ones that I made, each with a slightly different twist.
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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 and gold.
This cake was buttercream with snowflakes piped on the bottom tier and gold accents with a gold bow on top.
I had to take the picture from an angle because the cake table was set up at the edge of the stage at the reception venue and I didn’t really feel like falling off.
On a side note, the pearls at the base of the tiers were fondant pearls shaken up in some gold luster dust, and the color did not come off after they sat in the fridge overnight.
I told someone the color wouldn’t come off unless you messed with them when they had condensation on them, so there you have it.
For another cake that had the fondant pearls on the tiers plus lace piped in buttercream, click here.
All-over piped snowflakes.
This cake was buttercream with piped snowflakes on it.
Piping them onto the surface of the cake leaves a different profile than having the three-dimensional snowflakes that stand out from the cake.
You can also add some edible glitter to the icing to give it some sparkle (make sure that the glitter is actually edible, not plastic!)
For an article with grey and silver wedding cakes, click here.
Gumpaste and royal icing snowflakes.
I did a cake this past weekend that required a lot of gumpaste snowflakes.
Since some of them needed to be extended off of the edges of the cake, I made them thicker than I usually make snowflakes so that they wouldn’t be quite as fragile.
I used three methods to make the snowflakes. For some of them I used a paper punch to punch the snowflake shape out of a thin piece of gumpaste.
I then “reinforced” them by piping over the main shape with royal icing.
I’ve used the paper punch method a few times this year, and it makes really nice, thin shapes, but they’re really fragile.
The second method was rolling out the gumpaste, shaping it with a cutter and/or a snowflake mold, then overpiping with royal icing.
If you put the cut shape into an embossed mold before overpiping it, you’ll have some shapes to follow while piping the designs.
The third method was the basic piped royal icing.
I used a tip that was larger than usual so that they’d be a little more sturdy, due to the fact that some of them had to extend off of the side of the cake.
The photo of the finished cake is below…I used about eighty snowflakes for this one.
Some of them were stuck into the cake, and some were attached to each other to give them a three-dimensional effect. There were also some attached to the sides of the cake
Cutout gumpaste snowflakes.
This cake was a topsy-turvy cake with fondant snowpeople and snowflakes.
I looked at this one and thought “That looks crooked,” then I realized that it was meant to be crooked, so I was right.
The snowflakes on this one were fondant, and some were colored blue and silver.
Snowflake cascade.
This winter wedding cake had white and blue gumpaste snowflakes, white gumpaste roses, and fondant lace around the tiers.
I did the snowflake cascade on this one by attaching a few snowflakes together to carry the cascade up between the tiers, then sticking the loose snowflakes directly onto the cake.
Royal icing snowflakes between the tiers.
This snowflake wedding cake had snowflakes that had been piped onto toothpicks between the tiers. There was also a layer of fondant that was covered in white sanding sugar to give it sparkle on each tier.
The wedding cake also had the royal icing snowflakes between the tiers, and a fondant ribbon bow topper.
Snowflakes and red roses.
This red rose cascade wedding cake had silver painted on the edges of the gumpaste flowers, and royal icing snowflakes between the flowers.
Topsy turvy snowflake cake.
This topsy turvy snowflake wedding cake was carved to have uneven tops and narrow bases.
Royal icing snowflakes in white and silver.
For this minimalist snowflake wedding cake, I painted some of the royal icing snowflakes silver and left some white.
