Wedding cakes

I am attending a vintage wedding fair at Milton Keynes on the 26th February, so I am busy making cake dummies. I want to do a really nice photo shoot with them but I have no time at the moment, so I thought I would share them anyway. If you fancy coming along and saying hello you can find all the details here.

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Some old favourites

I had some commissions (before I went on holiday) for new versions of old favorites.

I thought I would compare and contrast.

Another teacup cake for another 90 year old, I have done quite a few 90th cakes, I suppose it's really something to celebrate.  No 100th yet, but hopefully one day! The new one is in blue, I loved the colourway.

Then a wedding cake version of my 30th Cake.  This is the most viewed cake on my flickr site but I've never been asked for another one, until now.  The bride was having a shabby chic themed wedding and had made so many of her own decorations, They were fabulous. The cake table was covered with a vintage lace shawl and she had made her own topper. It all looked great!

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Inspiration.

Inspiration constantly comes to me from so many different places, I can never find enough time to see to fruition even half the projects and designs I dream up.

However it is great to be given a client's inspiration and find it really sparks my imagination.

So I thought I would share two recent cakes, (very different ones but both enjoyable to make) where the client had specific reference for me to work from.

The first is for a 21st birthday cake.  this was a bit of a last minute cake as the lady had been let down by her first cake maker.  Over the phone she said that the birthday girl didn't like bright colours but preferred pastels.

I asked if she could send me some reference as I needed a bit more to go on, thinking I would see some pretty pastely florals, I really wasn't expecting romantic vintage.

The heart with buttons is by kbaxterpackwood.

The other three images are by Kimberly Ann Ryan.

However I was delighted as I knew I would be pushed to try something a bit different.  I have seen some beautiful cakes using button and lace moulds, and I had just enough time to order some over the internet.

I wanted the cake to have a patchwork feel but with no hard edges, so I embossed some areas with the lace and then brushed pearl lustre dust over it.  

She didn't want the cake and flowers to be too pinky which is why I tried to make them as vintage as I could.  I also dabbed off some of the painting to give an aged look.

I then added sugar buttons and lace over the cake for an extra dimension.

It would have been a shame to finish this cake off with a plain ribbon so I mixed and matched various ribbons round the cake board with some other embellishment.

I was really pleased with the result and am hoping to create a tiered wedding cake like this soon.

I shall post the next cake tomorrow.

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