Vintage Teacup Wedding Cake
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The Story behind this Cake
This cake was made for a vintage styled wedding, where the couple were having a "garden party" style reception with little sandwiches and cakes, all served on vintage china. So I wanted to reflect that in the design of the cake.
To make the teacup on the top, I used white gumpaste, and pressed it into a real china teacup - this helped get the correct shape. I left it to dry upside-down. I made a separate base for the teacup and a handle from gumpaste, and let those dry for a few hours. I connected the base to the cup with a ball of gumpaste and edible glue, and attached the handle with royal icing. Once it was all dry, I painted a floral design on it using Sugarflair luster dusts mixed with water - to give a faint watercolor-look to the painting. I used edible 24 carat gold mixed with vodka to paint on the gold accents on the cup handle. Next I made lots of gumpaste roses, and once they were dry, dusted the centers and just the edges of the petals with a soft dusky pink. I filled the teacup with some of the roses, and used edible lace to fill any gaps. The edible lace powder I used was from Lakeland - its a powder mix that you make up yourself (they call it Magic Icing Powder), and spread into a silicon lace mat. I used a daisy style lace mat for a more informal look, but there are many types of lace mat available online. For the pearls, I used the Alphabet Pearl silicon mould with gumpaste . I find this mould is more realistic than some other brands because the pearls are almost round, whereas other moulds give you just a half pearl shape which is not good for draped pearls. Lastly I assembled the cake using a polystyrene separator in between the base tier and the middle tier, then covered it up with the sugar roses. The cake was transported as a base tier (with separator and roses attached) in one box, the middle and top tiers (joined with royal icing) in another box, and the teacup topper in a third box. At the venue I added royal icing to the polystyrene separator and placed the middle and top tiers onto that. Lastly, I added the teacup; I just placed it on the top of the cake rather than glued it with royal icing because the couple wanted to keep it as a memento of their wedding. Share a cake by Catherine Thomas Cakes |
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