Cicco Creations

I made my own wedding cake.  This is NOT something I would recommend for every bride, in fact, I wouldn’t recommend it for most brides.  But, I had something very specific in mind and I didn’t want to pay $3,000 for it (actually, I’m not even sure how much it would cost from a bakery, but three grand is probably pretty close).   And, to clarify, my mom and I made it together.  She did the baking and the crumb frosting, and I did the decorating.

I wanted six tiers, all white but with different textures.  I also found a super cute Great Cupcake Pan from William Sonoma while we were registering for our wedding.  So, I added it to our registry and hoped I would get it at a shower and be able to use it for the wedding cake.  I was very excited that I did!

We chose two flavors for our cake, vanilla cake with cream cheese frosting and strawberry filling and chocolate cake with orange buttercream frosting.

The bottom tier was all fondant.  I covered it in fondant, then cut out little fondant discs and placed them evenly around the cake.  The next tier up, I used a meringue frosting with light peaks all over it.  Above that was another fondant tier.  I used green ribbons to accent it and made a white chocolate “C” to sit in front of it.  Above that was white chocolate shavings loosely packed into all sides of the cake.  Then was another fondant coating, this time, I made circles and rings to place sporadically over it.  The top was my great cupcake.  The bottom of the great cupcake was coated in a white chocolate shell and the top was covered in fondant.

I totally loved my cake.  I was thrilled to get exactly what I wanted without paying through the nose.  It only cost me a mild headache and a few tears.  Our florist added some red roses and apple green orchids to tie it in with the rest of the wedding.