Cupid Valentine Wedding Cake

This fruit cake was made for a wedding near valentine’s day. My clients wanted one tier but thought it may look a little lost at their reception.

I suggested they have one fruit tier which would provide ample portions for their guests and then have small second tier as a design feature. The second tier is a dummy tier which is simply discarded when the cake is cut.

In this case I did not need to insert plastic dowels into the fruit cake. The second tier was polystyrene with no heavy decorations on it and the cupid figure on the top of the cake was very light.

The bottom tier was covered in marzipan and white fondant icing. I attached the small top tier with little blobs of royal icing.

Even though the top tier would be covered with rose petals it was first covered with white fondant icing. This is because any decorations adhere better to a fondant surface than if they were stuck straight onto the dummy.

I cut out individual rose petals and used a tool to thin and frill the edges of the petals. I attached them overlapping onto the small tier.

The little cupid on top is a plastic figure. I made lots of wire curls and stuck tiny flowers onto the end of some of them.

I now needed some way of attaching them to the top of the figure.

I stuck a ball of fondant onto cupids head and then stuck all the wires into it. To neaten it all up I attached pink and purple blossoms around cupids head to form a crown.

I finished the cake with some dinky flowers around the bottom tier.