Well, here is the final product.
Day One: Make the calla lilies
Day Two: Bake the cupcakes and cake, and colour the fondant and icing
Day Three: Design and decorate the cake and cupcakes
I feel like most of my list items have been pretty difficult so far but this one seemed to be nothing compared to the marathon. The difficulty here was not knowing enough about baking cakes.
Lessons learnt:
1. You can’t make a fluffy 8” cake as it a) sticks to the pan or b) isn’t that great for a layered cake
2. Purple is NOT a great colour for icing. For some reason purple icing changes colour after a second to sun exposure. This lesson was learnt upon arrival at the venue.
3. Fancy cupcake cups for some reason do not stay attached to vanilla cake. I still don’t know why, but these rumours are true. Good thing I made two dozen extra cupcakes for mistakes.
4. Don’t fill your icing bag more than 2/3 full, it’s a mess.
5. Driving decorated cupcakes and cakes through a city is scary. I felt like I was driving a sleeping new born baby around. If I do this again, I’m getting a sign saying ‘cupcakes on board’ for my car.
Overall, I was pretty happy with my accomplishment and so glad that I had an opportunity to do something creative instead of physical! I must admit my Mom helped out a lot (especially with the food colour and setting up the cake). If you are planning on getting married never order a purple cake and keep it simple (it looks nicer!).
Oh ya, we made the floral arrangements and centre pieces as well. When I say ‘we’ I mean my sister, my Mom, and I (primarily my Mom).
The cake looks fantstic, you did such a good job. How lond did it take you to do that?
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