Selection and Design of your Wedding Cake

A lot of brides are on a learning curve through their wedding planning. I thought it would be good to use this beautiful Green Cymbidium Orchids Wedding Cake to show how we go about the design process and help them create what they dream of for their big day!

I always recommend a tasting session for wedding cakes, and encourage bride, groom and some close family or friends to participate. That makes the tasting a really fun event, the Groom's often come in skeptical and walk out passionate about cake and the choices they make! They chose tiers of almond cake with dulce de leche cream, and chocolate fudge cake with white chocolate cream filling.

The tasting session usually lasts 20-30 minutes, which then gives us another 30 minutes to talk through and sketch a design.

I ask the bride to bring whatever material swatches, color cards, invitations, photos or other elements that we might incorporate into a design. She actually lent me the original stamp she used to make her own hand-creafted invitations. So by stamping our fondant ribbons with that design we obtained a perfectly personalized touch.






We ended up creating four tier ivory fondant wedding cake with a quilted diamond pattern and silver beads. A purple fondant ribbon and embossed ivory ribbon surround each tier.



The majority of our brides choose sugar flowers that I make. However in this case the bride chose Fresh Cymbidium Orchids to finish off the cake, which we ordered from Lotus Petals in Maplewood NJ.

Delivered to the Orange Lawn Tennis Club in South Orange NJ.

Cake Decorating Class - Handbags

Earlier in the summer we held a cake decorating class to demonstrate how to make a handbag cake. It was a fun group and we had a great time.

We learned how to carve the cake into a handbag shape and then crumb coat the cake. Once the cake was slightly chilled we added a final coat of buttercream and then covered it with a piece of rolled fondant.

Finally each of the students chose whatever decoration they wanted to complete the bag design: fondant bows, cutouts, stripes, polka dots etc..

Special thanks to Lisa, Nancy and Cora for organizing the class.

"Cakes for a Cause" Wedding Cake Design Contest

On Thursday, September 24th at 6pm Cake Fiction will be participating in a wedding cake design contest at Sublime Restaurant in Gladstone NJ.

Three cake decorators are each paired with a designer or architect to work as a team to create a perfect wedding cake!

This event will raise money for the Raritan Valley Habitat for Humanity Charity. Tickets are $100 before 9/18/09 or $125 on the door. This fee includes your registration, appetizers and of course, CAKE!

Please help support this cause - Your tax-deductible gift will help them work towards a goal of building simple, decent homes for families in need in the Raritan Valley area.

"Cakes for a Cause" is one of 10 charitable events, each of which is being organized by a couple who are participating in a luxury wedding competition run by Roman Jewelers of Flemington and Bridgewater Commons NJ

Busy with cake tastings

We have been getting lots of inquiries in June for Summer parties and Fall Weddings. I think that one of the most enjoyable parts of my work is meeting the customers and sitting down together to create a new cake design. I especially love to introduce new flavors and fillings and see how people react to these. It's certainly busy and we do our best to fit in cake tasting during the weekends or evenings in between our decorating schedule.