Roses are RED, so is this Wedding

This is the most stressful wedding cake I ever made mainly because this is the biggest serving cake I ever made – for 300 people and the 1st double barrel cake for me!!

The theme of the wedding cake is CHINESE RED! The bride to be requested for 3 tiers cake with a pair of wedding couple in Chinese traditional costume based on the cartoon she chosen.

These are the red velvet cake with raspberry Swiss meringue buttercream filling, coated with a thick layer of premium dark chocolate ganache. In order to maximise the serving for the cake, I decided to go with double barrel cake at the middle tier (this is actually made of 2 cakes, stacked together and fondant with one piece of fondant). The design of the cake is supposed to base on the wedding cake design I did for my cousin last year http://sugarrattle.blogspot.com/2010/12/my-very-first.html

However I love my customers to have their special customise design and the kind bride to be is very nice to let me make my own decision. Thus, this is the design I came out with. The roses arrangement is inspired by Whimiscal Cakehouse.

The lace pattern on the middle tiers are hand piping.. This took  me few hours and at the end of the piping my hands were totally numb!! However, I’m pretty satisfy with the result of the lace, love it!

Cluster of handmade roses surrounded the middle tier cake.

The Chinese couple figurines based on the cartoon picture from the bride

Challenging figurines especially with the headset for the couple!

Now the figurines on top of the 3 tiers wedding cake

The bride also requested 6 cupcakes with the Chinese wordings on it. As I do not have the cutters for these wordings, I used the fondant to form the words. I have to take my dad for training me up in calligraphy when I was young to be able to write these wording

 

And the wedding cake with the cupcakes set

Finally after weeks of hard work, and one full day of sleepless day, the cake is ready to be delivered all ready in the box to go!! If you are the cake decorator, you should know this is the most tedious part! And this is such a heavy cake that it needs 2 person to carry it!

I’m so glad that it arrived safety to the venue! Phew!! and I am all relief after this!

The final picture of the cake. I just love the lace piping with the roses  

My very first…

My close cousin sister just had her wedding during the Christmas period. When she told me about her wedding close to half a year ago, I offered to make her the wedding figurines. Her wedding is in Malaysia. Initially I plan to order a wedding cake for her so that she can put the wedding figurines on top. However due to the budget and also her preference to have a cake that she can keep for memory, I decided to make her 3 tiers dummy wedding cake.

To make sure the figurines can survive the long journey to Malaysia, I decided to do the clay figurines instead of sugarcraft figurines. This is my very first time attempt to try out clay and also my very first time doing dummy wedding cake!!!

The wedding couple figurines made based on the gown, hair style, posture and groom’s cloths my cousin choose.

  Yes, groom is the fan of Manchester United soccer!

Here’s the 3 tiers cake with the figurines. The theme is white and purple and the design of the cake is chosen by my cousin as well.

The flower pattern on the cake are hand paint with royal icing.

And here goes the lovely couple with the wedding cake…

I am so glad that this time the figurines and the cake survive the trip from Melbourne to Malaysia!!!

I feel even more pleasure to be able to make my close cousin sister’s wedding cake! Thanks HC for giving me such an opportunity!

Last minute we managed to make our trip to Malaysia to attend their wedding. So I also did some simple cupcakes for the wedding day with the help of my auntie.

 

Cupcakes with the Chinese wording written “forever in one heart”

Wish you guys a happy and wonder marriage Roy & HC! Hope to see you guys one day in Melbourne!