The CakeCentral Wedding Cake Project  

Heath & I have been receiving so much feedback and interest from the
community about our wedding cake. (In case you missed it, Heath & I are FINALLY tying the knot on June 27th 2009)

So many different people from all over the world that make up the
cakecentral.com family have expressed interest in somehow being
involved with the cake. Logistically that just seems impossible. But is it???


Why couldn't 1 wedding cake be decorated by thousands? Nothing like
this has ever been done before, so why not do it here first at cakecentral.com?

We are having the wedding and reception at the Tacoma Art Museum. One of their permanent signatures galleries is blown glass art by Dale Chihuly. We thought this glass chandelier would be the perfect piece to use as the inspiration for our cake.

You can see the inspiration piece here:

This specific chandelier is not on display at the Tacoma Art Museum, but is personally one of my favorite works of art

We were thinking of a cake that is covered with pulled/blown sugar
shapes, to mimic art glass. Our idea is that anyone that wanted to
participate could make just 1 or many different sugar shapes, ship
them to us, and all the pieces will be assembled (the day of or days
before the wedding) by local CC members?

We haven't decided what local cake decorators will actually bake the
cake (it's going to be a monster stacked cake!) We were thinking we
would hire the local bakery/cake decorator to create the 10 layer
round stacked cake from 24" 6" (wow!) just covered in white
buttercream, nothing fancy or perfect since it will be entirely covered up by the sugar pieces in the end.

To our knowledge no long distance collaboration of this scale on a cake has ever been done, but it would be so appropriate for the CC community to be the first to do it, and for the cake at our wedding to be truly reflective of the entire CC community.

Please give us your feedback on this idea, it is just something we came up with this morning in trying to figure out how to involve CC in the wedding.

Is it a Great Idea? If you think it is a great idea, would you want to participate?

Is it a Terrible Idea? If you don't like the idea, do you have a different great idea on how to incorporate CC in the wedding cake?

We really look forward to your feedback, as it is you as our CC family we are trying to involve.

For those of you that have never worked with pulled/blown sugar, but would like to participate..
What if we (more specifically someone in the community) were able to put together a step-by-step"how to" video? Your first sugar art peice could be part of our cake! Each shape would be unique and different, ranging from small to large so lots of room for creativity

I was also thinking we could create a special gallery, so everyone could photograph their respective sugar pieces before shipping them and upload them to the gallery, so each individual artist could be recognized, and see how every single piece made up the entire cake.


**UPDATE***




That's a really great point.

In all honesty I know very little about working with sugar in this medium. So yea, this all could be a terrible and impossible idea

Maybe the pros out there that could help me on this one. Is there a way to add a filler or something to the sugar, to make it more sturdy? Flavor and edibility may be sacrificed, since none of the pieces will actually be consumed, but overall is something like that possible? Could we try something new? isomalt?

For those of you that already have experience with pulled sugar, I have started a thread here:
http://www.cakecentral.com/cake-decorating-ftopicp-6260666.html#6260666 to discuss the logistics and application, and possible impossibility of creating and shipping sugar sculptures

That is an interesting point!

What if we were able to put together a step-by-step"how to" video? Your first sugar art peice could be part of our cake! Each shape would be unique and different, ranging from small to large