Bachelorette Cake

The bride I did the carrot wedding cake for she had her bachelorette party and was in need of a cake.

 So I talked to her friends and got working on a cake for her party. Now she wanted a cake we had seen and talked about on pintrest. Though as I looked for it I couldn't find it. So I got to work making something better.

This is the out come of the cake. It was a hit. Spice cake, butter cream icing, fondant, gum paste panties, and bra.

Wedding Cake

 Wedding cakes, one of my first and it will never be one of my lasts.

 Gum paste lilies.

 Nine flowers, four tiers of carrot cake with oven roasted pecans. The top two tiers had no pecans for those that had allergies.

 The flowers were dusted with petal dust and luster dust. My assistant/ sister-in-law is truly an artistic genius! She did a stunning job and dusting the flowers.

 Four days of long hard work later we had a stunning cake for my friend.

 It was a hit. The guests enjoyed it and so did the bride and the groom. As a gift from the bakery to the happy couple I make them a separate tier for the couple to enjoy on their honeymoon.

Flower Friday

 Chocolate, chocolate, and.... dare I say... more chocolate?

 This is a chocolate whipped iced cake, with chocolate whipped roses, ganache leaves, filled with Bavarian cream and more ganache.

Now the only real difference between these two cakes it the whipped icing. The top cake had a lot of air bubbles in mixture. The second one you can see the big difference. No air bubbles makes a HUGE difference. The shine to the roses on the bottom as well came from the air spray gun. If you have a pearl spray just to a light mist over the roses and leaves to get that beautiful shine to it.

Mistake Monday

 Big mistake to think that writing on a cake is like writing on paper. Trust me when I say, "I was out of my MIND to think that."

 I was told that after writing on the first twenty or so cakes it would get easier. HA! That still gives me a laugh. I've written on well over two hundred cakes and I still get it wrong at times.

 Full sheets are truly the hardest though. These size cakes feed up to a hundred people. These are really big cakes. Which means you have a lot of writing and work to do to fill it.

 Some cakes like this air sprayed cake looked beautiful without any writing on it. It truly looked beautiful. Then I wrote on it and it turned into this.

It also would be wise to make sure you read the name right before you spell it out on the cake. Just for the soul fact... that not everyone is willing or as patient to wait for you to fix these little goof ups.

 Flowers have been the easiest thing thankfully. 

That writing thing though... was truly the devil to work with.

Flower Fridays

 Clearly when someone works with cakes, and a pastry case you will make flowers, roses, pansy's, daisys, mums, sweet pea flowers, name it we try to make it out of icing. After learning basics for two weeks I was pulled aside to learn roses. I could have cried I was so happy. The rose above this was my teachers. The rest below are mine.

 This was my first rose I had ever made out of whipped icing. It was hard, but oh so much fun. Needless to say after my first rose I felt like I could take on the world.

 Which isn't true. You can't take on the world by just making roses out of whipped icing. Though you can truly try.

Or instead of trying just eat the delicious whipped rose and let the world go on without you for a few minutes. It's up to you really.

Things to learn Thursday

 Things to learn when decorating cakes:
1.) Don't air spray unless you know what you're doing. (In my case I didn't.)

 2.) Don't take a picture of the side of the cake that is slanted. (beginner errors)

 3.) If someone brings it back... ruined. Don't show it to the decorator. It only makes them sad and then makes them rethink what they did wrong to make this happen. This is a twenty minute cake that was ruined in seconds. I was told the woman that bought the cake said "It just slipped." When we know she let her son hold the cake.

Things to learn: Cake #2

 1.) When you learn how to finally use the air spray gun on the flowers. Don't be surprised by the fading of the colors because of the harsh lights in the case. Whipped icing already has a hard enough time holding colors. It has an even harder time holding color that was sprayed onto it.

In front it still looked amazing though thankfully. The woman cared none the less as well.

Flower Friday

 One can never go wrong with making flowers. Flowers are stunning, beautiful and if made out of icing oh so delectable.