I am so excited! I have not one, but two cakes in a REAL PRINT magazine!
Over the summer I was asked to submit some cakes for the fall/winter edition of Contemporary Bride magazine. With only a few days notice. Here is what I made!
The first cake I knew I had to design around this flower I had made a few days before. It was an orange flower with gold edging so I knew I wanted to bring some gold in to the cake but I wanted most of the cake to be simple and white to really let the flower stand out. I created a few brooches out of gumpaste and finished them in a vintage gold and realized they had the look of old jewelry and gee, wouldn't they go great with pearls. So I decided to cover the middle tier of the cake with pearls and throw in a few of the gold brooches. While it took HOURS to get all of those pearls adhered, it was really worth it. I love how the whole cake came together in this vintage jewelry, Great Gatsby sort of way.
I knew I wanted the second cake to have a softer feel to it and I wanted each of the tiers to be different. I started with the bottom tier covered in simple white ruffles. The second tier I embossed in a lace pattern and then dusted with a bronze powder. Which actually got sort of blotchy in places. So I rubbed and dusted and rubbed some more to achieve a very weathered, vintage look. The top tier was roughly painted with a dusty rose coloring. The flower is sort of a fantasy peony. I wanted it to be a peony but I also wanted it to have the feel of an old silk flower you would find on grandma's hat. I thought that went better with the thee of the cake than a fresher looking flower.
I must give a huge thank you to my friend and photographer Brandi of Brandi Grooms Photography who not only takes beautiful photos for me but is always ready with her camera when I call her up on these last minute adventures!
If you would like to check out the entire article, it is on pages 115 through 119 of the Fall/Winter 2013 Issue of Contemporary Bride.
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