Bernice

The couple was married in Sedona, AZ, on Bear Mountain and returned to Erie Pennsylvania to celebrate with those who could not make the trip. 

I had a lovely conversation with the mother-of-the-bride (Bernice) who placed the order.    

She requested a two tier design and emailed a picture of the centerpieces another daughter had made for the tables.  The centerpieces where small pails with a Saguaro Cactus in the center and red and yellow desert flowers all around.  The pail then had a raffia bow tied around its middle.  

Using the Fat-Daddio paisley cake pans (as a representation for the mountains), the bottom tier was White and the top tier was Chocolate all with a Strawberry Compote.  The Saguaro Cactus are sugar cookies, the desert flowers were gumpaste.  I airbrushed the surface of the cake the color of the raffia.  I then added a warm sun-set sky, and  candy pebbles all around.  I also made a Sugarveil bow this same color as the raffia to tie around the base of the flowers. 

A full sheet of Marble cake with Strawberry Compote made a grand total of 150 guest.