Tiffany Bridal Shower Cake

A few weeks ago I got a referral from friend who couldn't make the cake herself. The client wanted me to make a cake for her sister's bridal shower. She emailed me a picture along the lines of what she wanted and I got to work. What she wanted was a Tiffany cake with red flowers, to match the wedding colors. The fun part is that the inside matched! It was a red velvet cake with the same Tiffany colored icing on the inside.

Instead of using gum paste and fondant for the flowers, I decided to try candy clay. You know from my earlier post The wonders of CANDY CLAY!!!! that I love candy clay. It's so easy to work with! The only problem is it doesn't do well in the heat. And it was already 95 when I delivered the cake at 9:30! Luckily the cake was being displayed inside.

Although I had a picture to work from and knew how the cake was supposed to turn out, I still went ahead and drew up a sketch anyway. After all, it is the reason I justified buying an iPad. That way all my cake and pop sketches would be in one centralized location that I wouldn't misplace as easily as the countless notebooks over the past few years.




Here's the sketch of how I hoped things would turn out. With flowers in the top tier of course. I debated whether or not to make it three tiers, but like it so much more with the third in the sketch that I went with it in the end.

Next up came the flowers. The candy clay was easy to shape by hand and with my gum paste cutters. I even used my veining tools to really make them pop. I went a little overboard on the flower making. It was fun. Plus I would rather be over prepared than under prepared. One thing I've found in cake decorating is that sometimes you know exactly how the cake is going to look, sometimes you don't know until you're in the moment and inspiration strikes, and more often than not, the cake turns out completely different than you expected in the most wonderful way possible.

Back to the flowers.....


This is about 2/3 of what I ended up making and about half of what I actually used in the cake.

As much as I love cake decorating, it is a lot of work to buy yourself. Idid as much ahead of time as possible; like making the flowers and icing beforehand. But I like my flakes to be as fresh as possible. So the day before it's delivered, I baked it, leveled it, filled it, crumb-coated it, iced it and decorated it with the icing comb before the icing set. All after working an 8-hour day. Needless to say, I was tired by the time I was done cleaning up my mess.

But, once I got passed the "I hate this cake!" stage, it was worth it.

Are you ready?


It's pretty spectacular.....






Yup... definitely in love with this one. I've got so many flowers left over I might have to make another one of these for Fourth of July this year. Just change the blue up a little bit ;)

Thanks for checking in. See you after my next cake or pop adventure!

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