Wedding Cake 3

The finished cake with sponge top tier and rich fruit cake base.

Sugarcraft Book

I have been teaching myself how to make sugar flowers with the instructions of a small book called.

Sugar Flowers 20 to Make by Lisa Slatter (Search press )

 

I have found this book to be very helpful but I will say I find making sugar flowers difficult, but very rewarding when they turn out well. Also you do need to buy sugarcraft equipment and flower paste not roll out icing.

Sugarpaste Stargazer Lily

This is my first attempt at a lily it was not easy.  Maybe will be easier with repeat attempts!

Sugar Paste Dianthus

Sugar Paste Gerberas

These flowers are for the top of the Wedding Cake.

Wedding Cake 2

Add some sugar flowers and that is the bottom tier finished

Wedding Cake

This wedding cake is for my brother in-law Nigel and his Fiancé Krista. The bottom tier is a rich fruit cake and the top tier will be a sponge cake.

Turn the cake upside down and pack the gap at the bottom with fondant icing.  Use apricot jam thinned with water and warmed in a sauce pan to make the icing stick.  Fill all the defects with icing too.

Roll out icing ( I would normally use marzipan) and lay on cake and smooth with your hand over the top and then round the edges.  Gradually work down the sides of the cake in one area at a time then trim the icing at the bottom.

I will decorate the cake next.

Layer Cake

This cake is a 4 egg sponge split into 4 x 8" tins, I added a few tablespoons of boiling water at the end to ensure the mixture spread out in the tins and did not dome too much.

The layers are sandwiched together with butter cream then the whole cake covered with butter cream and put in the fridge for 2 hours. 

I covered the cake in fondant icing that I had coloured with powdered food colouring.                                                                                                                                                                                        

  Finally I decorated the cake with various coloured flowers made with a cutter.