Ribbon & Pearls Wedding Cake
This cake was made for a wedding celebration held in the beautiful grounds of the brides home.
It was a three tiered cake but each tier had three sandwich layers instead of two making each tier approximately 5″ deep.
Each tier was a dfiferent flavoured cake to offer some variety for the wedding guests.
The bride to be was pretty sure on what she wanted in terms of the decoration and really liked the idea of overlapped ribbons and piped pearls.
Her colour scheme was largely white and gold with beautiful, subtle coloured roses.
The main colour on the cake is white with gold ribbons.
Although there is only one colour the combination of straight lines and dots adds lots of interest and creates a result which is lovely to look at.
The piped pearls on this cake took the longest to create, mainly because there were so many of them - around 1400.
I had to mark out where the dots would go before piping them.
This is because they were so uniformed. Had they been randomly placed on the cake I could have just started piping.
Once I had done that I could begin the piping. This job lasted the time it took to watch 5 episodes of Kath & Kim but that was fine cos I really like Kath & Kim.
After the piped dots had hardened I had to turn them from dots into pearls.
I brushed a liquid mix of lustre dust onto each dot to give a pearlised finish.
This job lasted longer than it took to watch the film Buster - not as good as Kath & Kim.
With such deep and large tiers (16″, 12″ and 8″) this was the heaviest cake I have made and I enlisted the help of my mum to deliver it.
As it happened there were two strong chaps hanging around they offered their muscles to carry it into the marquee.
I hasten to add here that they were not just hanging around a wedding venue, they were doing official wedding stuff.
So with me leading the way they carried it (very gently for two such strapping men) to the cake table.
Sure you won’t be reading cake blogs but if you happen upon this, thanks chaps.
The cake looked lovely in the marquee as did the rest of the venue, complete with heart shaped mini trees and heart shaped flowerbeds.
It was very pretty and very intimate. Just lovely.
Carly Stevenson
Wow! I’m very impressed with this cake–especially with the quality of your dots on the second tier. I did a cake last May for a wedding and the bride wanted the cake covered in dots. It was so hard to keep them all consistent and straight, plus the tedious work of flattening peaks. You’ve definitely impressed me, and it turned out very beautiful, keep it up!
Gezabella
I love your blog! I laughed out loud at this one - now I know how long it takes to pipe 1400 pearls, AND how amazing cake decorators keep themselves amused when doing repetitive jobs
Your cakes are fantastic and an inspiration - thank you.