My First Wedding Cake

This is my first wedding cake made for an ex-colleague. The top and bottom tiers were covered with buttercream while the center tier was covered with fondant and buttercream scroll. Got the inspiration for the color and design from the wedding invitation card. The rest inspired by whyteicing's Sampler Cake and many other round wedding cakes of CC. Thank you so much for sharing.

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Granpam 6/9/07 at 9:17am

super smoothand prefect borders and piping. Love the cupcakes between the tiers. Very beautiful

mydelights 6/9/07 at 9:32am

Thank you. The piping works are all first time except basketweave which I'd done with smaller tip many years back. I just realised my commenting function was off (don't know since when). Hope to receive feedbacks from CC members. TQ.

peterlori1 6/9/07 at 9:33am

Very striking. I like the look of using fondant and buttercream together on this design. Very nice!

mydelights 6/9/07 at 10:20am

Thank you.

QueLinda 6/9/07 at 2:00pm

I love this, colors, design, weave, cupcakes, EVERYTHING! I may just have to use this one day.

Teekakes 6/9/07 at 4:06pm

I really like the work you have done here, it all flows together so beautifully and elegantly. Into my favs it goes! FABULOUS job!! :)

tiptop57 6/9/07 at 4:10pm

lovely

Lenore 6/9/07 at 5:01pm

Just perfect!

lepaz 6/9/07 at 5:05pm

Just beautiful. How did you get such a great burgundy color???

brwntab 6/9/07 at 5:12pm

I think you did a wonderful job!

amberhoney 6/9/07 at 5:18pm

Gorgeous. I love that you used a combination of cupcakes and cake, its a modern twist on a traditional looking cake. I like to contrating designs tied together by colour too. Very nice job, are you sure this is your first wedding cake??? :P

JoanneK 6/9/07 at 6:26pm

I love the way you mixed so much into one cake. Your piping is perfect. Love the idea of a few cupcakes but not the whole cake being cupcakes. Great job.

mydelights 6/9/07 at 6:30pm

Thank you all for the wonderful comments. Yes, my very first wedding cake :) Thanks to CC and everybody for posting pictures and in forums. That's my biggest tutorial. I mixed Wilton's gel color: burgundy, brown and a little black to get the shade. Took me more than an hour or close to two to get there...giving me painful arms and causing the fondant to dry out. :ouch: Thank God the buttercream covered the flaws.