I looked around for someone that could work with fondant cakes and at a reasonable price-no luck. My friend Carol had never worked with fondant, but is great with cakes so we tried it out. She's amazing. I had so many compliments on they cakes-they were perfect. Carol did all the decorating on the cakes and taught me some cute things with the cupcakes. Here are some cake tips I learned from Carol and the book I borrowed from Sherri.
Cake Tips:
* Bake the layers for the cakes and the cupcakes ahead of time-just freeze them. I baked cupcakes the day before and messed up on some ingredients. I was literally baking or frosting cupcakes all day. The wedding cake part of the book said to freeze the layers-less to do close to the party.
* Trace the cake pans on parchment paper, cut it out, and then spray everything with cooking spray. The cake comes out perfect.
* Cut the top part of the cakes off and flip them over for really flat edges.
* Put the frosting in the fridge before decorating so it doesn't have that melted look. Leave the cakes/cupcakes in the fridge until ready-everything looks more crisp. We put the cupcakes in the freezer overnight and took them out with enough time to thaw before the party.
* Put a layer of frosting on the cakes and put them in the fridge before decorating so they don't crumble when they're decorated.
* Warm up the fondant in your hands to make it mold better.
* Carol used the butter box to flatten out the cakes (why spend money on fondant flatteners when you don't have to).
* Have the pictures handy of how you want to decorate the cakes.
* Do a trial run. We did ours a week in advance and from there we thought about other things that would be pretty and needed to buy.
Trial run.
Carol taught me how to make roses. Use a tip with lots of spikes. Just start in the center and swirl outwards. Simple but they turned out pretty.
The flower accessories were from Michaels. The fondant is also from Michaels-6 bucks for a cake's worth.
Annie's own little cake. The beads in the bottom are just rolled up fondant.
Cake numbers 2 and 3. I can only say I baked the cakes-Carol thankfully did the rest. The present cake turned out just like the one I took a picture of in Europe years ago.
Cake table. All the cupcakes and cupcake frosting was made from scratch with real vanilla-very irresistible. The cakes were made from a box-each cake had 2 layers.
Carol and Annie on her big day.
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