| Cake by Ceej | posted 280 days ago | 1188 views | 10 times favorited | 16 comments | ![]() |
This design was based on one in Collette Peters’ book, A Cake to Dream On.
Chocolate bottom tier and vanilla for the other two tiers – the tiers with gumpaste ribbon roses on are ploystyrene dummies.
The vanilla cakes weren’t as deep as they should have been (4”) as they weren’t firm enough when I came to ice them so had to be rebaked in a hurry – I didn’t have time to bake two layers for each cake but did manage to get 3” cakes when I baked single layers the second time so that had to do!
It was a scary moment hammering the dowel through the cake and a crack did appear right at the front of the middle tier (I think it would have been fine if I’d had time to let the icing set overnight though so it wouldn’t put me off doing it again) but that was hidden very easily with a gumpaste leaf.
Embossed with a tracing wheel and then painted with lustre dusts mixed with alcohol with beaded wires pushed in amongst the flowers for a little bit of ‘bling’ – there are also silver smarties nestled amongst them somewhere.
I’m really proud of how it turned out but wouldn’t want to do another one in a hurry – that’s a lot of pressure and even though I took a week off work to make it, I was still finishing it on the morning of the wedding. If my top tiers had been OK and if I didn’t have to go out and buy ‘proper’ fondant rather than try and use the supermarket stuff I usually use on my much less ambitious novelty cakes that wouldn’t stop tearing then I think it could probably have been done in 3½ days. I’ll know better next time. I’m hoping next time won’t be for a very long time though…
-- Carol, Maidenhead UK, http://offtherailscakes.co.uk
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Goreti
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#1 posted 280 days ago
It looks beautiful
Ceej
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#2 posted 280 days ago
Thank you very much x
-- Carol, Maidenhead UK, http://offtherailscakes.co.uk
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#3 posted 280 days ago
Wow, love it!
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#4 posted 280 days ago
Super creative! Well done!
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#5 posted 280 days ago
Congrats! Your cake has been chosen as an Editor’s Choice for 8/12/2012.
Check it out on one of our albums:
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Ceej
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#6 posted 280 days ago
Thank you very much Michal, and thanks to others for their positive comments x
-- Carol, Maidenhead UK, http://offtherailscakes.co.uk
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#7 posted 280 days ago
Beautifully done!
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#8 posted 280 days ago
Lovely!
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#9 posted 279 days ago
After all that trouble, you managed to “pull it off”.......and in a most beautiful way!
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#10 posted 279 days ago
I LOVE this cake and I also love your honest description of how you made it. It looks like it was worth all the hassle. x
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#11 posted 279 days ago
Lush!
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#12 posted 279 days ago
BEAUTIFUL! and that is a lame word to use, but it is hard to describe…it’s breathtaking!
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#13 posted 279 days ago
The leaf belongs there. (I love hearing inside stories like this, thanks for taking the time to share so much about this cake.) It’s amazing work, you should be completely proud of yourself. Well done to you!
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#14 posted 279 days ago
I love this cake … amazing J:~D
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#15 posted 279 days ago
-- Carol, Maidenhead UK, http://offtherailscakes.co.uk
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