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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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Art Deco Cake

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Black and white and gold…so pretty! We absolutely loved creating this cake for a New Year’s Eve Wedding at The Mayo Hotel in Tulsa, OK. This cake was a three-tier to serve 62 people and had a different flavor and filling in each of the tiers. The top and bottom tiers were iced smooth with white buttercream. And for the middle tier, the bride stepped outside the box with a smooth, black buttercream tier. The contract of the buttercream colors coupled with the pop of metallic gold accents was stunning and The Mayo Hotel was the perfect venue for this cake!

Each tier of this cake had a fondant band at the base and the top and bottom tiers had hand cut and painted art deco fans and accents. These were created by cutting out fondant, adding texture and then painting the metallic gold accents. The middle tier was a bit different as we cut tiny lines and strips of fondant and added it directly to the cake piece by piece to form the art deco design.

The lines on this design were straightened with a razor blade for crisp perfection. Once the design was in place, with a very steady hand, we painted each piece gold with a mixture of edible gold and vodka. Art Deco perfection!!

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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!