Friday, August 31, 2012

a wedding cake for Heather and Ian...and their little dog too





Lemony lemon cake and a chocolatey chocolate raspberry cake arrived at Heather and Ian's reception in San Francisco last week!  And what a FUN reception it was complete with great people and yummy food (Judah, my one-year-old gobbled up the crab cakes and probably his weight in pineapple and watermelon).  

Another challenge awaited me on these cakes as it was my first attempt at gum paste.  The gum paste was fun to work with once I got a hang of it and how I was to make dogwood flowers out of the sugary stuff.  I ended up making my own cookie cutter once again out of a lasagna pan and then pressed the cut out flowers onto a textured bowl I had to make it look more realistic.  To dry, I placed the flowers on a sheet of tin foil and crumpled it up so that the flowers didn't dry flat but had some body to them.  To finish off, I dusted the dried flowers with petal dust and 'glued' a ball of gum paste rolled in yellow sugar in the center with water.  The branch was made with cocoa fondant by twisting two fondant pieces into a rope and wrapping around the cake.  The lacy design on the cake was made using a small circle icing tip and buttercream.




The groom's cake was an indulgent chocolate cake with a chocolate raspberry ganache filling.  My gum paste skills were put to the test as I studied pictures of westie dogs in order to sculpt the canine to place on top of the cake.  I used a tooth pick to make 'fur' and then rolled out teeny tiny ropes for the face to add a little more detail on the snout and around the eyes.  Edible markers colored in the eyes and added a little pink to the ears!  Here's to Duncan the Westie who was not able to attend the reception but was represented in sugary form :)












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