Wedding Cakes

I have no cakes I must make today so I thought I would post some of my wedding cakes.  I usually name my cakes after the bride who chooses it but I am going to have to come up with a better plan because I am starting to duplicate a few of my cakes quite frequently!

I think my favorite cake might be one I call Rustic Dawn.  The cake was modeled after a Martha Stewart cake and it turned out so well.  There were four tiers of cake iced with chocolate butter cream icing and was decorated with sugared chestnuts, lady apples and lemon leaves.  The cake looked so perfect-- the reception was held in an old remodeled barn in Maryland and the wedding itself was very rustic.

The second cake shown here was a three-tier red velvet cake iced with cream cheese icing called Melisa.  I work with the groom and his bride brought me a picture from a magazine she liked.  I ended up making an identical mini cake for them to share at or after the wedding as well as the groom's cake which I will post in another entry.  This has become one of my most popular cakes and I love to make it.

Next up is the Whitney cake-- I think the best part of this cake is the stand I displayed it on!  My sister and her husband are iron artists and they crafted the stand from polished steel.  There are five individual stands that go with the set and the pieces are all interchangeable so I can put a big cake on a tall or a short stand, plus I can use 1 or 5 at a time.  They are easy to dress up with tulle or ribbons but I like them best plain and simple!  The Whitney cake was chocolate, white, and strawberry cake iced with butter cream topped with silk flower arrangements I made myself.

The fourth cake is another nice cake made better by the accessories and the surroundings!  It holds a special place in my heart because it is the Rebecca-- it's my wedding cake!  Yes, I actually made my own wedding cake! It was so much fun to do-- it was supposed to be four tiers but as I was icing the top tier, it started to fall apart because it was carrot cake!  I wasn't stressed in the slightest, I just added more of the beautiful flowers featured throughout the wedding.  They were an amazing combination of colors-- a parchment colored center with an old terra cotta patina on the edges called Leonidas.

The last cake is a recently made one called Jill.  Jill got married last year on Memorial Day weekend!  Jill is a good friend so this cake was a labor of love-- but frankly, the concept of this cake came nowhere close to the final creation.  This cake was so beautiful, classic and just amazing!