Wedding Cake with Flowered Top Tier
There are certain cake designs you see as a cake maker and you earnestly look for an opportunity to execute them. That was the case with this cake. You can thus imagine my excitement when I knew I was going to make it, with my own twists of course. It was a success and the bride loved it so very much.
The cake itself is a 2 tier 8 on 10 inch Nigerian Cake frosted with vanilla butter cream. All the design work was done with marshmallow fondant.
The top tier of this cake is where most of the “drama” is. In executing the top tier, I used a total of 200 small fondant blooms. These were made in advance and left to dry in empty egg crates. Oh the joy of baking!
One thing you might not know about me as a cake designer is that I have a philosophy which I stubbornly hold on to. That philosophy is that except for things used to support the cake structure or fondant structures, everything on the cake must be edible. I do not use real ribbons on cakes. Neither do I use inedible decorations. The original design of this cake was made with twines tied around the middle tier. The challenge for me was how to replace those twines with fondant! After some thinking, I was able to create a knotted twine out of fondant. A tutorial on how I did this can be found here.
I will be posting a tutorial in future on how this cake was made. Do watch out for that.
Terry Adido is passionate about showing people how easy it is to recreate restaurant quality meals in the comfort of their kitchens. With a style of cooking he refers to as Afro-European Fusion, his meals are influenced greatly by French and Italian Cuisine with a West African twist. If you love good food, you are in for the ride of your life.
Good work as usual. Very pleasing to the eyes. Keep up the good work.
Thanks a lot.
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Your posts always make me wanna get all the items and practice what you’ve taught.
You’re an inspiration and a blessing to me even though I’ve never even decorated a cake before, I know that when I’m ready to take that plunge, I have your posts to guide me.
You are welcome. Soon please 🙂