Dusty Rose Ribbon Cake

From today's wedding. 6", 9" and 12" rounds of Dark Chocolate, Tahitian Vanilla and Strawberry-Vanilla. There are tiny dots piped on the sides, but it's really hard to see them! I hate putting a satin ribbon around buttercream tiers, but here I had to, so I cut the strips of waxed paper and put them around each tier first...then slipped the ribbon on top.

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Comments (32)

cakegal 6/4/05 at 3:25pm

Beautifully done!!!! I love this one....

AgentCakeBaker 6/4/05 at 3:53pm

Very elegant!

Misska21 6/4/05 at 4:20pm

Very simple and beautiful!

TheCakeWizard 6/4/05 at 4:22pm

Absolutely beautiful! You did a splendid job!

veejaytx 6/4/05 at 5:09pm

Great looking cake, you did a good job!

CarolAnn 6/4/05 at 6:31pm

It's beautiful and you have such shape edges on ecah tier. How do you get them so sharp and defined. I can see some of the dots. It's just lovely!

ntertayneme 6/4/05 at 6:33pm

Very nicely done :)

2cakes 6/4/05 at 6:35pm

Wonderful job and it looks so right for the occasion. I love the pastel color flowers on the tiers.

awela 6/4/05 at 6:56pm

Very lovely cake!!!

antonia74 6/4/05 at 8:35pm

I guess the sharp edges come from the plastic pastry scraper. The cake's sides are never hard to get perfectly smooth for me...but the tops, I struggle with their smoothness every time!!

thecakemaker 6/5/05 at 5:42am

Absolutely beautiful!

jscakes 6/6/05 at 12:41pm

Beautiful Cake!!! Were the flowers real?

antonia74 6/7/05 at 12:45pm

Yes, they were given to me in 3 huge clusters...but I had to tear two of them apart to use for little bunches on the sides instead. I guess they thought the cake's ledges would be much wider, but it was a 6" 9" and 12"

browneyes 6/8/05 at 8:33am

WOW!!!Excellent job!! How did you affix the ribbon ends,so they look uniform?

antonia74 6/8/05 at 3:53pm

I just used a pearl-headed pin at the back for each ribbon and eased it into the cake through both ribbon ends. The wax paper underneath prevents it from getting grease-stains from the buttercream.

cakelady3 6/15/05 at 11:39am

Thanks for the ribbon idea. The cake looks lovely.