This girl wants cake…
Posted by Rebecca on June 23, 2008
I’ve always wanted a 5 tier cake… Yes 5 tiers! Why? I honestly have no idea.
The budget is going to be small (’cause who wants to start a marriage with debt from a wedding) and thus we’ll never have enough people at our wedding to eat a 5 tier cake. By golly, I want that 5 tier cake though! Ha!
I’ve heard Styrofoam is an option – a fake cake if you will. As long as the bottom layer (the layer we’ll cut into) is real, I can live with the other 4 tiers being Styrofoam. I think a 5 tier cake will look absolutely stunning. And yummy…
I also want a cake that has alternating shapes. As in: tier #1 is round, tier #2 is square, tier #3 is round, tier #4 is square, and tier #5 is round… or vice versa.
I also want alternating designs on each layer… (I’m a complicated girl, aren’t I?)
This is my idea for tiers #2 and #4 (be they round or square):
From Delicious Desserts:
I want the two tiers done in lavender (or some “to be decided on” shade of purple) fondant with phrases or words to include: “from this day forward”, “to have and to hold”, “forever and ever”, “happily ever after”, “love”, “joy”, “honor”, “happiness”, etc. Forget those flowers and pearls though… not me.
(BTW, this cake was nearly $1000 ($8/slice, serves 120); what is up with that? Even I, an untrained eye, can see imperfections in the rolled fondant. I’ve never even attempted to make a cake that didn’t come out of a box from the grocery store, but is it really that hard to keep a steady hand when writing words? Maybe it’s an amazing tasting cake… It better be to be asking that type of price. Yikes!)
For the remaining 3 tiers (tiers #1, #3, and #5), I want the same lavender color but in butter cream frosting. I want it to appear “rolled” in sugar crystals to give it a sparkly look. (I think this will be a cheaper design ’cause the butter cream frosting doesn’t have to be anywhere near perfect. Once you throw the sugar crystals on there, no one will even notice.)
I’ve seen a picture of what I’m trying to describe, but at the moment it escapes me. If I come across it again, I’ll be sure to put it in the blog for all the world to see. For now, this picture will have to do:
This is from intICING Creations (awesome name btw). It’s not exactly the picture that gave me the original idea, but it’s close enough for me. On the cake I want, the background icing would be lavender. No flowers though. Plain and simple…
So… that’s my “vision” for now (it’ll probably change several times in the coming months knowing me).
What do you all think?
