It was about two years ago, now, that our friends Jon and Monique got married. I was honored that they asked me to bake their cake and happy to do something a little more traditional. Originally, she only wanted three tiers, but in discussing it, we decided that something a little more grandeur would be a more fun centerpiece. But we didn’t need all that cake. What we decided to do was make a couple faux tiers.
The bottom two tiers were actually Styrofoam! I was able to frost those puppies up in a flash and wrap on the blue ribbon provided by the bride. The other cakes were vanilla cake and either mango butter cream with bits of Filipino dried mangos chopped up and mixed in, or a more traditional strawberry butter cream. The fillings alternated in the layers. The outside, as you can guess, was vanilla butter cream.
The cake was trimmed with blue satin ribbon and accented with cymbidium orchids. Simple, elegant, beautiful.
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