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Feeling The Blues

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As a cake person, when you get an order for a wedding cake that has color on it, you have to get it right! This cake will be in a room with a specific color scheme and will be heavily photographed. We, of course, ask for color swatches, but even with those, you can’t always guarantee that your buttercream will be the proper color….I mean, it’s sugar! But when we delivered this cake to Greenleaf Barn in Broken Arrow Oklahoma, we were so thrilled to see that our sugar’s shade of blue was SPOT ON!

This cake was a three-tier to serve about 75 people and was iced completely in buttercream. We first iced the cake in white buttercream to get the icing smooth. We then added a little blue buttercream and spread it around the tier to smooth it out and blend it with the white. The brushed and marbled look was just the look we were going for and the blue remained true to the color the couple was wanting. It matched the table cloth perfectly!

Once the tiers were iced smooth, they pere placed in the refrigerator to cool and set. Once set, it was time to stack and add the edible gold leaf accents.

When we were stacking this cake, we were careful to add extra support in the bottom tier, so the geometric separator would ne secure. We did this by adding bubble straws for support and a board on top of the cake for the separator to sit on. This was helpful in keeping the separator from sinking into the cake at the venue. The couple opted for some silk flower filler for the separator and a gold pick topper to complete the look. So pretty!

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Have Cake, Will Travel

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Cakes that mimic inanimate objects are always fun to create! This one was for a groom’s cake at the Mayo Hotel.

This cake was essentially a 2-tier cake with the base cake being a 1/2 sheet double and the top being a sphere cake. There was only one element that needed to be created in advance on this cake: The suitcase handle.

THe handle was made from brown Satin Ice fondant. We started by rolling the fondant like a snake and curving it into the size needed for this suitcase handle. We added stitching marks before the fondant had a chance to dry to give it a stitched leather look. We then set this aside to fully dry before it could be added to the cake.

For the globe portion of the cake, we iced a ball shaped cake in off-white buttercream and smoothed it out, so the fondant continents would lay flat. We used the same tone of off-white on the fondant and the buttercram base to give this globe the look the couple was going for. We then airbrush outlined the continents and added globe grid lines. We then placed this cake in the fridge to chill.

While the globe was chilling, we carved the corners of the cheet cake to give it more of the luggage shape. We then iced it smooth in white buttercream. We iced it in white and then airbrushed it brown to give us the leather case look. We then added fondant accents like leather straps and buckles and airbrushed the whole cake to make sure everything matched.

The last pieces to be added were the gold accents and travel stickers. For the gold accents, we placed fondant pieces one the cake and painted them with an edible gold powder mixed with vodka. The vodka will evaporate and leave the gold color. For the location stickers, we printed those on edible paper and mounted them on white fondant and cut them out.

Lastly, we stacked the globe on the suitcase to complete the look. Happy travels to the happy couple!

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It’s a Jungle Out There!

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There are some cakes that you just fall in love with. The colors, the characters, the style of this cake was just too cute! This cake was for a second birthday with a jungle theme. Some jungle cakes are busy with too much going on, but this cake was simple and sweet in its design.

We started creating elements for this cake about a week before it was due. We needed to give the leaf accents and animals time to dry. When creating 3D fondant sculpted animals, you always have to do them in phases. You will start with the body and head separate. If you try to assemble to animal too quickly, the weight of the head can squish the body or cause the fondant to wrinkle. To avoid this, we created the core pieces and let them dry. Once dry, we were able to assemble limbs, ears and tails.

We also had to create the leaf accents, so they would hold their shape when placed on the cake. We used a variety of green colors of fondant and made differend shapes and sizes of leaves.
We also created the #2 topper in advance. We made this the same color as the off-white buttercream, so it would not compete with the animals and leaf accent colors. To make the number topper, we cut out the #2 twice and sandwiched floral wire inbetween the two layers of fondant. Once dry, this allows for the number to be skewered into the cake. The wire is thin enough not to be seen or cause a bump in the fondant, but stong enough to secure into the cake and hold the number upright.

When it came time to actually create an assemble the cake, we iced each tier in off-white buttercream and let it chill in the fridge. We then stacked the tiers and added the birthday girl’s name, “Chloe” on a wood-like plaque. This didn’t need to be made ahead of time sinde it’s placed directly on the cake. We then added all the leaves and animals to the cake in a staggered pattern to balance the design.

We think this one turned out super cute! Happy 2nd Birthday, Chloe!!