Wedding cake....

[manda]

I got to make a wedding cake a couple of weekends ago for friends of ours....Aaron is my hubby's hunting buddy (hubby was his best man). His granny (Bobby) made the cakes (she's made her famous fruit cake for all the children and grandchildren....I got to decorate the cake...I was terrified !!!

Aaron works in forestry management so his (now) wife asked if they could have a tree stump.....
...the plaque well I wanted something to show the date ...and I sneakied in a fairy door (which is kind of my signature on cakes)

...the butterflies well the two on top are meant to represent Aaron and Michelle and are my fondant version of the NZ Red Admiral

...the two smaller ones her bridesmaids are made up but in Teal which was the colour of their dresses.


They added some Sphagnum Moss around it when it was out on display which I thought looked really lovely..


It was a fabulous day (it was absolutely boiling and the cicadas were clicking away loudly...we had a fabulous weekend and I found a new adopted granny....she is the most amazing woman in her 80's - told me all about her life when she was younger (sheesh it sounds like it was hard...NZ wouldn't have had that much in the way of roads and facilities back in the day).

[saint-spoon]

Toptastic cake.

[Totally Scrambled]

Treemendous
Dom

[p.penn]

Absolutely fantastic Manda - I know I have said this before, but you have a real talent for cake decorating.

I would have been really stumped

[tosca100]

Aww that's lovely, and nice to be able to do something so different.

Know what you mean about pressure though. You know you can do it but that doesn't help. I have had major problrms sourcing icing sugar of all things, the stuff here is coarse and doesn't behave as it should.

[davina112]

Fab Manda, as always

[manda]

Thank you I wasn't sure if I wood be able to do it ...Oh come on

Aww that's lovely, and nice to be able to do something so different.

Know what you mean about pressure though. You know you can do it but that doesn't help. I have had major problems sourcing icing sugar of all things, the stuff here is coarse and doesn't behave as it should.

Have you got a blender or a coffee grinder? .....I wonder if it hasn't been milled as much...

Failing that normal sugar in a blender and if the tastes not quite right try adding 1 to 1 1/4 tablespoons of corn starch for each cup of sugar (because most commercial icing sugar has a little cornstarch added).....I often make my own because I can't justify travelling into town if it's all I've forgotten.

I've got a glass thingy on my blender so it's OK but just be careful if you've got a plastic blender because the sugar will soon scratch it....don't know if that's any help tosca.

[Sara]

Thats brilliant Manda, I really dont know how you do it

[tosca100]

Thanks manda, will try the cornstarch thing as one of the problems with my blender is that it clogs on the sides and I have to keep moving it down. I have never got it fine enough.

Who would have thought something like ordinary icing sugar could be so important?

[Mo]

What an unusual wedding cake - so personal and appropriate.