Thursday, October 2, 2008

Flowers, Bugs and Butterflies

This was probably one of the most interesting and brain challenging cakes I've ever done. Thankfully some one else made the bugs and mushrooms! A friend of mine who happened to be marrying my husbands twin brother, saw a picture of this cake and asked me if I could recreate it for their wedding cake. I told her I'd do my best and here is the result! Although this was a fun cake to do, and I'm so glad I did it for Julia, I doubt I'll ever do another one without charging an arm and a leg. Friends, especially ones that marry into the family, just get special treatment :0).
Another aspect that made doing this cake very different was that I was also a bridesmaid in the wedding! I literally finished the cake and then flew into my dress in time for pictures.
I made all the flowers, ferns and leaves beforehand with royal icing (a type of frosting that hardens) This made the decorating a bit more simple because I could just stick them on where I wanted them.

PS- I'm sorry about the quality of the pictures, they were taken with my cell phone.



2 comments:

Megan said...

Gorgeous! I feel hungry

Sara Mallon said...

I feel honored that your profile picture is decorating our wedding cake hehe :) :) yeah!!! I'm so glad you're getting your business going and I will be referring all my engaged friends to you (if that's ok :). I still want to take that decorating class with you too!