My Blue Wedding

The modern day wedding is done around a theme.  This bride choose to represent her favorite color blue.

The cake featured four tiers in a  Hexagon shape.  The flowers were gumpaste Delphinium (there are very few flowers that are a true blue color) and were wired into gumpaste ivy.  The complete cake is buttercream and trimmed all the edges in blue for a unique display.

Leaves and Lattes

Fall makes a beautiful season for a wedding.  As with Spring, Fall has very define colors.

This was a last minute wedding cake for a small group of 50.   It features three round tiers in buttercream with gumpaste fall leaves.  The lattes is made of pistallage.  I first roll out the pistallage and then place it into the mold, using my roller, pressing with medium pressure, roll over the prepared paste to imprint the design.  Next using a pallet knife I gentle cut away the excess and carefully remove the piece from the mold.  I dried them on a flat surface for several days.  They were then inserted into the sides of the cake.

The flowers were fall mums also made of gumpaste with a few sprigs of gumpaste heather.

Golf

Golfing is a major summertime sport for local residence in Northwestern Pennsylvania.

This was for a man who played everyday.  The little figure was made of Mexican paste.  The cake was done in buttercream with a grass tip for the edge trim and field markers.  Blue pipping gel was used to create the water hazard and crushed cookies were used for the sand trap.

Flowers

Gumpaste:  Gardenia's, Gerber Daisy, Morning Glory's and Poppy's

20 years

If you have been flowing this post, I started this blog with gumpaste flowers and have added several additional post featuring them.

I spend the best part of my day, five days a week, making flowers.  I love all flowers and having the tools and talent to create these sugar flowers brings me much joy.  I left the work force 20 years ago. As of January 8, 2012, I have been in the pastry business 20 years.  I love my JOB!!!!