Buttercream Monogram Wedding Cake

Monogram Wedding Cake

A few weeks ago I made this wedding cake for a sweet bride and her husband. The pictures I took turned out kind of dark since the lighting was not great...I think this girl needs a new camera ;) The cake was much prettier in person! I love how it turned out and the wedding was at the beautiful Carolina Inn in Chapel Hill. It was a gorgeous venue! Every other tier was triple chocolate and white almond with raspberry filling. 

Beach Wedding cake and cupcakes

I recently made this cookies and small cake for a beach wedding. I love how the adirondack chairs turned out. To make them, I found a pattern (google) to make real ardirondack chairs and scaled it down to be "cake size". It was a little confusing figuring out how to put the chairs together, but I eventually figured them out. It was fun using gumpaste to make a wood working project ;) The cake was a small 6" round cake and the bride and groom cut into that and had the cookies for their guests. I couldn't find a starfish cookies cutter so I made it. You can check out how I make my cookie cutters here ! 

Hexagon Wedding Cake

This past weekend I made my biggest wedding cake yet and had to purchase a new cake stand to fit it on! It was a hexagon shape which was also new to me. It was 5 tiers, but the bottom two tiers were made out of styrofoam.

The most difficult part of this cake was cutting the styrofoam into the exact hexagon shape. I used a styrofoam cutter (found in the floral section at Michael's) to cut it but I think this job was way too big for that little cutter. I ended up pulling out a kitchen knife and using that as well. This part took me a whole day to do (something I thought would only take an hour or so)! In the life of cake making this is often the case - something you think will take no time at all takes a lot longer to do then expected.

The other tiers were red velvet and vanilla. I really like how the quilting technique turned out on the hexagon shape. I also made the roses out of gumpaste. The bride and groom provided the ring cake topper and asked me to put a "ring motif" around some of the tiers. This cake was covered with buttercream and fondant.

Check out my new cake stand! I ordered it from Amazon and Landon has enjoyed playing in the box it was packed it. It is a 20" round and I honestly have no idea where I am going to store it. 

Becky and Josh's Wedding Cake

I love the white on white detail on this cake. I made a similar one exactly a year ago for my friend Susannah. I must admit that icing square cakes is much more challenging. It takes forever to get the icing smooth and level. I do love love the look of square cakes though and they tend to feed more people! The flavors of this one were vanilla and triple chocolate with raspberry filling. The icing was all butter cream. 

Customized Polymer Clay Cake Topper

These little guys have been waiting for me to add them to my blog for quite a while! I made them for a groom's cake back in May. The mother of the groom wanted me to make them look similar to the bride and groom. They were a little smaller and not as detailed as some as the others I have done in the past, but I think they turned out super cute. 

Sarah and Josh's Wedding Cupcakes

A little over a month ago I make cupcakes for Sarah and Josh's wedding. Sarah's parents are our Sunday School leaders. Chris, Sarah's dad, made the awesome tree stands! I think they got the tree stumps from their backyard. They went great with the wedding decor. The cupcakes were red velvet with cream cheese frosting and triple chocolate with buttercream.  I also make a little white almond cake for the bride and groom to cut into.

Vintage Wedding Cake

 

This wedding cake is one of my favorites...I love the blush pink and ivory colors the bride asked me to make the flowers. She gave me the little birds (they were actually little cheese spreaders) to put on cake. How cute! The cake was white almond with buttercream icing and gumpaste flowers.

Groom and Bride Cake Topper

I have been wanting to blog about these guys for a while now! When I wrote the post last week about cake toppers, I already had these completed but they were being shipped to their owner. I didn't want to write about them before she got to see 'em.

The bride found my blog and asked me to make this cake topper to suprise her soon-to-be husband on their wedding day. She sent me these pics of her dress and his tux....



awwww beauuuuutifulllllll



Very classy :)

When she sent me the pic of her dress I wanted to go back 4 years ago and do my wedding all over (but this time wearing THAT dress haha). I really did love my dress, don't get me wrong, but that one is aboslutely gorgeous too.

On to the toppers....my fave so far!

 

I heard from the bride that they made it to their destination safe. Hope they enjoy their wedding day!

Jaye and Tim's Wedding Cake

Well hello there...I am finally getting the chance to blog about my most recent cakes! This is a wedding cake I did for some friends a few weeks ago - Jaye and Tim. They are such a great couple and we had a ton of fun at their wedding. Can't wait to hang out with them now that they are hitched :) Here are a few pics of the cake...

 

 

I am so proud of how the buttercream turned out! This was a buttercream covered cake and I was able to get it super smooth!! That is one of my pet peeves about buttercream - I like my cakes to be smooth and I have to realize that buttercream just isn't going to have the perfectly smooth look of fondant. I am proud of this one though!!

Wedding Cake

This past weekend I had quite a few cakes (3) to make, but I was able to organize my week and get them all completed just in time. Here is the wedding cake which turned out beautiful. I was so nervous about it because on the way to deliver, it slipped on the stand and I thought I was doomed (felt like I was on one of the cake shows). Once it was set up and all the flowers were place on it everything was just fine. The location was a beautiful house in downtown Raleigh and I LOVED how the cake setup was under a beautiful gazebo outside. The twinkle lights, even in the daylight, added a nice touch :) The cake was white almond with buttercream icing. I also tried a new technique by adding the lines (with an icing comb) around each tier. I like the texture it provided. I am now getting a little more used to buttercream cakes, although I prefer working with fondant.

Adam and Sus' Wedding

I am SOOO excited to finally blog about this cake. One of my good friends, from growing up, got married a few weeks ago. She is my best friend's older sister and I always thought that she was sooo pretty and cool when I was little (she still is!). I am so happy for her and Adam and cannot wait to see how God uses their marriage. Dave, Landon and I had so much fun at the wedding even though getting there was a little stressful! Transporting a cake 2 hours away with a little one in the back seat can keep you on your toes! To be completely honest with you, this was one of those cakes that I was scared to death about delivering. Buttercream cakes are a little more fragile and in the heat they often melt. The cake suprised me and turned out to be one of my fave wedding cakes so far! The ones I worry about seem to always be my favorites :) Anways - here it is.....

 

Alrighty, are you curious about the AMAZING cake stand yet?? My friend, Jill, made the stand and decorated the entire reception. Let me tell you, she is majorly talented and everything looked like it should be in a wedding magazine. I asked Sus' photographer (also super talented) to share some of the pics she took from the reception and here they are..

 

 Gorgeous, gorgeous, gorgeous....what an absolutely beautiful day!!