The Making of a Cream and Pink Church Building Cake
In this tutorial, I will be showing you how I made the Church Building Cake above. This cake was made for the dedication of a new church. This is the second church building cake I am making, the first being the the Church Building with Doomed Roof Cake below. A tutorial on how I made the Church Building with Doomed Roof Cake can be found here. You should go though that tutorial as my explanations and analysis were more thorough there. As with the first cake, I used my method of dry fondant paneling to make this cake. A tutorial on how I panel my cakes cane be found here. To read more about this cake, click here.
THE PROCESS:
(1) The first thing you need to do is make the panels for the cake. My tutorial on how to make fondant panels explains how this is done. I started with ivory fondant panels and layered them with pink fondant for details. I worked in stages building one layer after the other over the span of about a week.
(2) Next, bake your cake, carve it and frost it. Please refer to my tutorial on the first cake for how I did this. I used four 10 inch square cakes to arrive at the shape below.
This is essentially the shape of a rectangle. The strip above the rectangle was mad with the cake cut offs.
(3) Next, cover the cake board with fondant. You can write the message on the board now or after you are done with the cake decorating. I wrote it now just to make sure I had enough space for the message. Stick the frosted cake on the cake board.
(4) Now begins the process of sticking the dry fondant panels together. As usual, I used melted white chocolate as my gluing medium. A very thick paste of icing sugar mixed with water also works. The cake was brushed with a bit of water before sticking the panels on it. The pictures below show the various stages of completion.
First, I stuck the side walls together and on the cake.
Next, one side of the roof was placed and the top part of the building was inserted.
Next, the roof was completed.
Next, the top part of the church was completed.
Next, the foyer was built.
Next, foyer roof placed.
Final touches added to the foyer.
(5) The cake was completed with the landscaping, addition of flowers and Conifer Trees (Tutorial here). That’s all there is to it. Happy caking!
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.
Beautiful. Thanks for the tutorial
You are welcome Uju.
Well done. This is very nice.
Thanks Christy.
Hi Terry,
Please most of the pictures on this particular tutorial do not open and I would really love to view them. Pleas can you help. I have tried viewing them on at least two different devices.
Thanks for bringing this to my attention. The files must have been corrupted. I am working on rectifying the issue. Thanks.
Hi Terry,
Please I really do not understand how you make the fondant panels, can you explain a bit because I have a church cake to make by April and I need to learn this real well.
Hi. You should read my post on how I make dry panels. Link in the post and here.