Category: Cakes

Wedding cake for eldest sister

The day has finally come when I craft a cake for a genuine wedding. Knowing the cake was for such a special day was exciting and at the same time incredibly nerve racking. Since I was to help with some of the wedding prep aside from the cake, I wanted to make sure there was plenty of time to complete the cake. So we started approximately two weeks in advance.

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Winter Wonderland Cake

It all started when my sister forgot to tell me what her cake should look like. I asked her what she ‘wanted’ the cake to be …she assumed I was talking about flavor, and said lemon or vanilla. So I decided since her birthday falls in January, and it is always horrendously snowy this time of year, to surprise her with a snow storm or winter wonderland themed cake.

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Making a Mock Wedding Cake

You probably are a little freaked out and overwhelmed simply from reading the title of this post. Take a deep breath, calm down. A wedding cake is not that hard.

The first steps is to make the cake layers: three six inch cake layers, whatever flavor you please, I did lemon chiffon. Now a heads up here, although the chiffon is lighter and will not weigh down the other tiers as much, it is much squishier and may fall over if left sitting out for a number of hours; it was definitely leaning after the sitting out for awhile.

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