Ruffles and Roses Wedding Cake

This is awesome! How are the ruffles on the bottom tier done?

Beautiful cake. Yes, please tell us how the ruffles are done.

Beautiful cake. Yes, please tell us how the ruffles are done.

Motorcycle accidents are the worst!!!! Been there and done that, thank goodness your mom was able to step up and help! The cake is stunning, I love the ruffling on the bottom tier.

What a trooper!! you did a great job! pretty cake

very very pretty!

Wow! Thanks everyone. This is one of my favorites and it was so fun to make, even though it was also painful! :) I do my ruffles very similar to bebegirl1969. She explains how she does it in the forums here: (...)

Sorry, I didn't know they would block their own forum address. If you search for "bebegirl1969" in the forums it will come up. Basically though I just hand cut modeling chocolate into strips (about 1 inches wide) and rounded the ends. Then I used a ball tool and a toothpick to thin out and fan/ruffle the edges until it looked how I wanted. Then I attached them to the cake by folding the straight edge at a 90° angle and applying piping gel. I just trimmed the length of the strips as I went. I put a to...

Hope you are doing better now. Your cake looks sensational :-)

So beautiful!

Gorgeous cake! Very elegant!