South African Wedding Cake

It’s Squires Exhibtion this weekend.
This was my entry from last year, March 2014. It was the first time I’ve exhibited at Squires and entered the “hand painted two tier wedding cake” category. I was over the moon to recieve a GOLD. award for it.
These are royal iced dummies that I hand painted with cocoa butter. The theme is South Africa and depicted aspects of it so couple of lions, leopards, lilac breasted roller birds on lower tier, and then textile background with hand painted silloutte on second tier. The king protea is the national flower of South Africa and made this entirely from sugar with bought stamens. The board is hand painted too.
This was indeed a creation that came straight from my African Heart… It was a nostalgic journey for me :)

There is a tutorial now on the protea which you can find in my shop (blue “shop” icon on left of page ) on my page https://www.facebook.com/callicious

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185 Comments

Angel, The Cupcake Lady commented over 9 years ago

That is really beautiful. So much detail!
You said you painted it with cocoa butter? What is cocoa butter?
Where do you buy stamens?

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Sugargourmande Lou commented over 9 years ago

Outstanding, Calli !! No surprise for Gold, your painting is incredible and that flower is wonderful !! xx

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Mila - Pure Cakes by Mila commented over 9 years ago

Fantastic Calli!!

Learn from the past! Get yourself a blank canvas and paint your own life. Be your own artist! Mila, http://www.facebook.com/PureCakesbyMila http://www.tsu.co/PureCakesbyMila

AAAXXX commented over 9 years ago

Just gooorrrgeous calli! Makes me long to visit SA <3<3<3

Calli Creations commented over 9 years ago

Angel cacao butter I purchased online. Can get at most suppliers so best to google it. I found mine through Amazon. I melt it and add edible colours and then paint with it . Stamens you can get through any cake suppliers, they come in all shapes, sizes and colours, depending on what flowers you are making.
Many thanks for all your kind comments.
Sawsen, oh you must go… We are going out to a wedding inDecember:)

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