how to make a wedding cake

How to Make a Wedding Cake: Decorating a Wedding Cake (Part 3)

May 9, 2014 by Jenn

In the previous two posts, I have discussed with you how to bake and frost a wedding cake in Part One, and in Part Two, I showed you how to stack a three tiered wedding cake. In this post tutorial, I will show you how to decorate a wedding cake using ribbon and artificial flowers.

Creating a wedding cake that is specially matched to coordinate a bride’s special day is super easy with all of the options that are readily available now-a-days. Did that sound like old school country? Changing up icing colours is one way, but an easier way to do so is to coordinate ribbon and flower colours.

To decorate a wedding cake you can use a variety of different types of flowers:

Sugar flowers: Pros- Edible, Cons- very fragile, time consuming to make, one time use

Real Flowers: Pros- Beautiful, can match the bouquets exactly, Cons-smell, require flower spikes, droop quickly, one time use

Artificial/Silk: Pros- easy to work with and trim to exact sizing etc, long lasting, reusable, Cons: may be hard to find matching colours/type etc.

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How to Make a Wedding Cake-Baking and Frosting Part One

May 7, 2014 by Jenn

I have almost 70 wedding cakes under my belt. That’s not a lot of wedding cakes if you are a professional cake wedding decorator, but it was a lot to pump out in a three year span as a rookie! Year one was a learning experience, year two putting practice into action, and year three was fine tuning the practice.

Baking wedding cakes were some of the most reward-able cakes that I got to be a part of. I LOVED making them, loved getting to the venue and seeing the beautiful decorations, but I HATED the delivery!! Nothing ever went wrong, but I was always nervous throughout the drive. The longer drives (hour to an hour and a half) in the hot beating sun were often scary, as was travelling on the highway and worrying about the other drivers on the road. If you are partaking on long deliveries, make sure that your vehicle has air conditioning, and that you put blinders up on your windows to block the sun (as much as it can be). I also always transported my cakes in a large cake delivery box, that my partner made for me. Delivering in the box kept wayward dust and dirt off of the cake and ensured that a clean cake arrived at the destination.

In this first tutorial (of three), I show you how to bake the cakes for the wedding cake. I highly recommend using cakes from scratch as they are sturdier than box mixes, and will hold up better under movement and the weight of decorations.

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