Final Results for Eric & Heather

The wedding was wonderful, and the cake was a success. Heather chose the best flowers possible and everything fell together nicely.

Here are some photos of the finished product! There is also a video of the beautiful Bride and handsome Groom cutting the cake!

The top was perfect with the ribbon and family tartan.
One last view from the left:

Here's the video!

Eric & Heather: Wedding cake update

OK - now it has all come together! Here is a rough sketch of what will be created and driven about 5 hours northwest of Cape Cod next Friday afternoon!

Don't mind my perspective - it won't be leaning when it is done. The navy ribbon will line each layer, The round layer will actually have approximately 2 inches of the bottom level as a margin.

I will pipe small white "pearls" - no ridges, just tiny round dollops of buttercream, around the base of each layer. That will incorporate Eric's preference for dotted swiss look.

There will also be a 2 inch border on the tartan covered platform that the 8 inch top layer sits on. That will look very nice.

If you want to just place 3 white roses on the second later and one on the top, the rest of the blue delphiniums, daisys, fern, etc. can be the filler and color. Of course you could go with say 4 roses in the middle and 3 on top if you want to splurge! It will be a large cake, so that might be the best choice.

The filling will be seedless raspberry!

I got the pillars today and they are 7 inches tall. The top will stand very high above the cake - probably a bit higher than my sketch shows.

Feel free to post any comments! It will be great to see the before and after!

Eric & Heather's Wedding Cake Planning

Here's where I will post ideas and details about creating that special Carmichael Tartan cake for May 10th. I will also include scans of past cake photos! This should be a great forum for this!

Here are some photos of past cakes. The first one is a 16" oval base with a 12" second layer and an elevated top, appx. 8 inches. Covered in fondant and decorated with white gum paste forget-me-nots and dotted swiss, with fresh flower garnish.

The second (heart-shaped) one I donated to charity (served 350) for a Big Fat Greek Wedding dinner show on Valentine's day. Basket weave is on the top layer. Supposed to be sickie-sweet looking for the comedy. Detail ---------}
The third cake was for an Irish wedding, and I crafted the Claddaugh from fondant and glazed it with gold powder to match the Bride's ring. It is a 12 inch base and all layers are covered in fondant. There are fresh flowers and gold ribbon on the cake and around the base. The groom was vegan and his cake can barely be seen, on the left. It was made from soy products. Not very attractive but he could eat it.

The next cake is a groom's cake with candy images of coke bottles and caps with the bride & groom names on them, plus a Coke Logo for the top - always John & Amy (in the CocaCola font). This cake has a 12 inch base.

This cake is a birthday cake with a cake pot of flowers spilling over the sides. The pot is made of fondant-wrapped cake, and the dirt is crushed teddy graham cookies! The flowers are real.

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You like a square base with a square second level, and then a tiered top. Do you like the iced look or fondant covered look? I know you would like some dotted swiss.

I am thinking of making a 12 inch double-layered square base with a 10 inch double-layered tier sitting directly on the base. That will be enough cake to feed 110 people. If you want to go bigger I can make the bottom 16 inches and the second tier 10 inches - that will feed 185 - really huge.

Both versions will use an elevated top 8 inch double layer.

You mentioned fresh flowers and hopefully some use of the tartan. I am thinking 2 things: first, I can use a piece of the fabric to cover the platform that the top tier sits on (aove the pillars) and make it slightly larger than the cake so it is seen around the outside of it.

Second, I can send the image of the fabric to a place that makes edible images from sugar ink on a clear sugar transfer, and that could be placed on the top layer, or even cut into strips like a ribbon to go around the top layer - or even other layers - as a trim.

Here is an image of a 12 inch cake I made for a baby shower last weekend. Your bottom tier will be taller (this was for 50 people so I made the layers a bit thinner). The second level is an 8 inch - only one layer cake. FYI after the cake was served they only used the front of the cake, up to the second level, without cutting into it. There was a TON of leftover. I placed a picture of cake and mom here so you can have an idea of size. Her cake was on a round base because of the clouds (matching the theme and the clouds on the top).