I decided to make a bouquet of Flowers for my Jersey Girl for Valentines Day last spring. (I really don’t need a reason to give Fran flowers, but this was a good excuse to practice, practice, practice)
I made a variety of flowers based on a picture I found online. This took some time and the little white flowers and red berries tried my patience. But it was worth it. I don’t think I have made any this nice since last spring.
This cake served a double purpose. It was for the Break the Fast meal at the Fink’s in 2010 and to celebrate the pending engagement of our friend Don P.
The cake was white velvet, butter cream crumb coated and covered with fondant. The flowers are both gum paste and drawn with paint made from petal dust in a vodka solution. You will notice throughout I am NOT an artist.
My first wedding cake and the reason I started baking and decorating cakes. The cake is comprised of a chocolate layer (for Daniel) a white velvet layer (for Fran) and topped with a Heavenly White layer (similar to angel food, for Frances.)
The cake was crumb coated with butter cream frosting and covered with fondant. The Stargazer Lillies are made of gum paste and are France’s favorite flowers. There are also yellow roses and calla lilies for variety.
Here is the back side of the cake showing the blue of UFL and maroon of BC as ribbons draped across the cake.
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