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Snowflake Cake

"Winter Wonderland" themed wedding. Snowflakes were made from royal icing.

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Comments (27)

traci 1/22/06 at 2:19pm

gorgeous!

_ChristyB_ 1/22/06 at 2:33pm

Awesome job!!

tmassey5 1/22/06 at 3:22pm

love it! love it! love it! fantastic job!

sue_dye 1/22/06 at 3:34pm

Love your cake, beautiful !

Tiramisu 1/22/06 at 4:21pm

Stunning! Great design.

ape 1/22/06 at 5:16pm

Can you share how you did the "dripping" icing? Did you pipe thinned icing? It looks absolutely gorgeous!

LisaMS 1/22/06 at 5:31pm

ape, the dripped icing is "almond bark" (sold in the grocery store at Christmas time) melted in the microwave with a little bit of shortening (tablespoon?) to thin it a little. Just put in a bag with a tiny cut end or use a number 3 tip. You could use white chocolate instead of almond bark. I just do a continuous "m" motion with my hand; very easy. Oh, to microwave, just make sure you heat at 25 second intervals. Heating too long can burn the chocolate or bark. I usually heat 25 seconds; stir; ...

gma1956 1/22/06 at 6:40pm

This is very pretty. I love the snowflakes against the off white color of the icing. Great job.

jscakes 1/22/06 at 8:22pm

That is a beautiful cake!

stephanie214 1/23/06 at 2:47am

Elegant

ape 1/23/06 at 11:48am

thanks Lisa!

KimAZ 1/23/06 at 12:29pm

Stunningly beautiful! Awesome detail on the snowflakes!

antonia74 1/23/06 at 1:01pm

so so so pretty! I love the "dripping" effect and the variety of your snowflake patterns! Do you have templates for the snowflakes you did?? they are awesome!

BritBB 1/23/06 at 1:05pm

Very, very pretty!

LisaMS 1/23/06 at 1:27pm

Thanks y'all. Antonia, I took a very simply designed snowflake and just used it as a guide for size, but varied my designs with no real template, if that makes sense. It was easier than I thought it would be. Link to snowflake: (...)