2 weeks, 2 wedding cakes!

Two of my very good friends got married this month and both asked me to make their wedding cakes.

First up was Zoe, remember, she of the Birthday Party/Baby shower and Alice in Wonderland cakes.

She had been umming and ahhing over whether to have a cake as they were arranging the wedding in a very short 6 weeks and on a very limited budget. Thankfully her wonderful godmother stepped in and offered to pay for it so Zoe got the cake she wanted. We got down to planning and settled on a simple design, white icing with mendhi tattoo style designs hand painted in silver. The bottom tier was limoncello with dark chocolate chunks and lemon buttercream (as chosen by the bride) and the top tier was coffee with coffee buttercream (for the groom). The whole cake was given a once over with pearl lustre spray and topped with a small posey of fresh flowers that matched the colour scheme of the wedding.





As soon as that wedding was out of the way I packed up my car and headed for the Highlands. My other friend Jayne got married the following Saturday and rather than attempt to transport the cake from Malvern to Aberdeen (9 hour drive give or take weather and traffic) I decided to stay with my mother in Nairn and make the cake there.

The bride's request was simple and summed her up perfectly, a 3 tier chocolate sponge cake, decorated in cow print with purple sugar roses!!





For the geeky among you, yes, that's Faith's dagger from Buffy the Vampire Slayer that the happy couple are using to cut the cake!

(My mother spent the week complaining that her house was full of cake but she wasn't allowed to eat any, so she ended up getting her own, personal, 8 inch carrot cake once I was finished with the wedding cake!)