Spring wedding cake

hello everyone, i feel like spring is finally here when we made this cake, even though its rainy and 19 degrees outside. This cake will be the final one for this year unfortunately since i'm off to europe and elective until next february. Exciting for me but so many cakes had to be rejected.

So i actually learnt alot making this cake, which has been the source of alot of stress for the last few months. It is a massive cake with 4 tiers, 15", 12", 9" and 6". The 15" was the biggest cake i had ever covered in fondant! I couldn't have done it without Joseph who drilled the boards, Amy, Gen and Jenny for helping me with the sugar roses and Warren and Mat who moved it for me (it weighed about 30kg).
The lessons i learnt were how to make sugar roses (which still look a little like gardenias but thats ok cause i still love gardenias). The sugar roses took us about 4 nights since each layer of petals had to dry overnight before another layer could be added. The second lesson was in regards to my airbrusher, i knew i wanted a hot pink filler flower however i couldn't find the colour anywhere. So thanks to the lovely people at cake decorating central (castle hill and campbelltown) plus a few blogs, i learnt you could make your own, by mixing cake decorators alcohol with wilton colour gel pastes. The risk is, it clogging up your airbrusher however this is easily fixed by passing hot water though it. Anyways i didn't have any problems and the result was perfect since i could get the colour to match the band on the bottom tier. I must also credit planet cake since this was designed based on one of their creations.
So this cake is caramel mud and choc mud with dark choc ganache and fondant. I really hope the bride and groom like it, its so hard since when other clients pick up the cake i can gage their reaction but when i have to drop it off at a venue, i don't know what they think! Let me know what you guys think...




Finally this cake was a small project for my cousin Gen's brother in law's engagement. It was inspired by a faye cahill cake, however i must say the faye cahill cake is 100 times better than mine. But all in all i have learnt from my mistakes in this cake and i hope i can improve on it in the future. Liam and shannon were still very happy with it, which is the main thing. The theme of the engagement was pink paris so i thought this cake fulfilled the brief to a T.



In study land, i have an exam on thursday which is a little stressful since all i can think about in europe! I can't concentrate on any study, so i really hope i pass, otherwise i will be on a jet plane back to remediate (that would really suck). But after that i'm free as a bird, eating macarons in paris, shopping in london and skiing in austria. Just 3 more days...

But i will miss blogging about cakes while i'm gone! So if anyone tries to contact me and i'm MIA, its ok, i'll be back in February hopefully with more cake stories and more cakes to do (oh and passing my degree complaints).
xoxo