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I won’t get to post the how-to tutorial, until Thursday or Friday, but I wanted to share pictures of the finished product with you, this afternoon. Using some fantastic tools from Wilton, I was able to make our daughter’s wedding cake. It was a beautiful success, fairly simple to complete and helped us keep this wedding under our $2000 budget. Yes, we managed a frugal and yet, wonderful wedding at less than 1/10 the national average for weddings. I’ll be sharing some of our tips in a later post. ( If you missed my first two posts with the fantastic white cake recipe and the decorating of the sheet cakes, be sure to check those out, too. ) Be watching for those, and in the meantime, I hope you enjoy these snapshots of the cake I baked for our daughter and son-in-law’s wedding celebration. (Right click your mouse on either photo and select View Image to see the pictures full-size.) We were very fortunate to have such a great photographer, Mary Hubbard, from Breaking the Surface Photography. She creates exceptional photo memories at an affordable price. I highly recommend her services.
The wedding cake I baked and decorated for our daughter's wedding. Photo is published by permission and copyright © Mary Hubbard at Breaking the Surface Photography 2011.
A closeup of the top layer, fondant flowers and lace detail. Photo is used by permission and copyright © Mary Hubbard at Breaking the Surface Photography 2011.
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Wow! That is beautiful. I can’t wait to see your tutorial and find out which Wilton products need to be at the top of my must-have list.
Andrea, you’ll be amazed at how simple the Wilton tools make it. Plus, it doesn’t require very many!
What a gorgeous cake! I’m so impressed that you were able to make such a beautiful cake for your daughter’s big day! I’m sure she must be extremely grateful!
Lisa, thanks so much. She did love it and it felt good to know I was able to do it for her.
I love it!!!! I am making my sister’s wedding cake in November …a bit nervous lol I love the lace pattern. I can’t wait to see how you did this.
Tara, you’ll love how simple it is and believe me, if I can do it, you can do it. You’ll be awesome!
That is gorgeous Glenda! Love it!
Thank you, Julie! It was a great day!
WOW! Looks amazing! Can’t wait for the tutorial!
Thanks, Angie! I’ll have it up soon.
I LOVE this cake! It’s perfect. My wedding’s theme is lavender and lace and I was just browsing the web looking at different things and came across this cake. It amazes me you made it! I can’t seem to find the tutorial. I would love to try and mimic the design, if you don’t mind. It’s absolutely stunning!
Miranda, I never did get a tutorial posted. I need to get to work on that. In the meantime, I tinted white fondant to make it lavender (Use a gel color, like Wilton, not liquid.) Once each tier was covered with fondant, I stacked and secured them with wooden dowels. I used lace I had purchased at the fabric store and cut strips to go around the sides of each layer, two doughnut shaped pieces to do the tops of the bottom to layers and a round to do the top. I used white royal icing and pressed it through the lace onto the lavender fondant. The lace worked as a stencil. I started by doing the sides of each tier and letting it dry. Then I did the top of the bottom layer, then the middle and finally the top. Hope that can help until I can get a more detailed tutorial posted. Congratulations, by the way! I hope your special day is wonderfully blessed!
Glenda,
. So, like you, I want to practice and see if I can get this decently acceptable….Thanks for any help!!
We have a large family, and we have a wedding to plan for our daughter for August! They picked our anniversary to get married on! Anyway, I showed her your cake and she was VERY impressed. So, I read your blog on it, but I am wondering…..did you cut the lace like circles and strips? How did you get the patterns to match? Did you “pin” it on the cake? What was your icing recipe?
Our family of eight has allergies, and we have to work around alot, like gluten, dairy, soy and most of time, dye also
Wendy
Wendy, I did exactly that. I cut strips to go around the sides and circles for the tops. For the bottom two layers I had to cut a second circle from the centers of the circles, so they slipped right down over the smaller top layers to the layers below. As far as matching, I made sure my strips on the sides all started at the same spot on the back side of the cake, but I didn’t have to pin anything. The first pass of royal icing over the lace, held it in place. I used the royal icing recipe from the Wilton website. http://www.wilton.com/recipe/Royal-Icing I’ve had other’s ask about the process. If I get a chance over the holiday break, I will try to sketch out some pictures to make it more clear. In the meantime, don’t hesitate to ask if you have more questions.
I could believe that your children can’t help being proud of you. Thanks so much for what you have shared on your helpful blog. It’s so amazing!