Wedding Cakes....

It's June. Actually it's getting close to the end of June. June has been a busy month.....it's wedding month.

Of the four Saturdays in June, three of those weekends were wedding cake weekends.

One of them booked me over a year in advance. Can you believe that? They wanted ME to do their wedding cake and called me over a YEAR in advance.....well, I can't believe it....actually, I feel honored. Honored. Honored that someone wants ME to create the cake that will live on in their minds and pictures for the rest of their lives. It's very humbling.....and nerve-wracking if I stop and think about it. I mean, this thing has got to be good. Not only does it have to look good, it has to taste good......and well constructed....

A couple weeks ago, I did a three tier fondant-covered cake with lace. As soon as the bride sent me the picture I got all excited. (This is the year in advance booking.) She had found it on the Martha Stewart website. I had never done lace before.....a new technique.....and a need for new cake toys! (My husband just shakes his head...)

The cake in the picture was gorgeous. I can't tell you how many times I tried to expand the picture so I could see the detail of the lace. Then I would go on the internet and pour over the online stores and call my friend Melody who, by the way, owns a cake decorating/party supply store that I frequent -- a lot. We couldn't find the exact lace molds. We could get close, but I knew that those specific molds had to be out there somewhere.

Then I had an idea! I'll post the picture on cakecentral.com and surely somebody there would know which direction to point me. Well, they didn't let me down. The response was almost immediate! The poster pointed me to Sugar Delites (jenniferdontz.com).

I must say, I love Jennifer and Sugar Delites. She got me through this cake.....I emailed her a question about a frill cutter and she called me the next day.

I now use her recipes for white chocolate fondant and pearl clay. Love, love, love them! I also ordered a couple of her videos....WOW! I'm going to gradually get the whole collection....sshhhhh....don't tell my husband.....

I am a bit of a perfectionist....I take after my daddy.....so I get it honest....

I re-did the frill strip on the top tier three times.....to be honest, I still wasn't satisfied.....but that's me....

Wanna see it?

Well, here's the finished product....

What do you think?

I think it turned out pretty darn good.....I'm hoping Kaitlyn started a trend.....love that lace!

By the way, I didn't make the flowers on top.......those are silk hydrangea on the top. Aren't they beautiful?

Wanna see some other weddings I've done? Take a look....I didn't do all of these this month.....these are the some of the ones I've done in the past 9 or 10 months.....

Thanks for stopping by and looking.....

Beginnings and Rainbows

Today marks a new day in blogging for me. Gonna try to jump into this thing again.....

I have another blog. It contains my musings of my day job....well, what was my job. Now it's part of my job....at least until someone tells me differently. I just haven't posted since 2008. Yup, one of those back burner things. I know people who blog and I enjoy reading their posts. Wonder if anyone will enjoy reading my posts....hmmmm.....

So here I go, starting a new blog. This time it's about one of my passions. I have a lot of those.....

Anyway, this one is about my cake decorating.

I love cake decorating. I love it so much I even teach classes. I don't just decorate cakes. I also decorate cookies and cupcakes.

Cake decorating can be a bundle of fun or a nightmare.

I've had nightmares about cakes. I've laid awake at night worried about how I'm going to pull things off. Wonder if Duff or Buddy or Bronwen or Sylvia or Mike have ever woken up in the middle of the night wondering how they will pull something off........well, I do and I'm not a celebrity by any means.

My latest thinker cake was a dolphin cake. How was I going to make a dolphin-shaped cake with enough servings? Well, I decided I was just going to stop thinking about it and do it. It wasn't that difficult....I was stressing over something that I shouldn't have been stressing over.....I do stuff like that....

So here's the dolphin.....see, silly to stress over...

I've had quite a busy weekend though. Wedding cake, cookies, that dolphin, and now I'm working on a cake for tomorrow. The birthday girl requested a sheet cake with a horseshoe and barbed wire.....and rainbow cake in the middle. What a fun thing! Rainbow cake. Here's a before baking picture....

Kinda messy looking, isn't it? These are fun because no two ever turn out the same and everybody's serving has a different pattern. I always try to remember to ask the person I make one for to send me a picture of the inside. That fascinates me.....the littlest things amuse me.....:)

Here's what it looked like after it was baked and leveled....

Pretty cool, huh? Can you see the blue peeking out there? Now I've gotta remember to ask my friend Linda to take a picture of it when they cut it.....