Claire & Scott's Blue & White Wedding Cakes

Claire ordered 84 vanilla cakes for her and Scott's wedding. I submitted several designs to her, and in the end she chose her and Scott's initials stamped onto fondant hearts.

I made the buttercream as pale as possible to match the wedding's blue and white theme (it looks more yellow in the photos than it did in real life), and decorated the cakes with silver balls, pale and dark blue flowers and the stamped hearts.

I also made 3 teeny-tiny cakes to go on the top layer of the cake stand, the hearts spelling out 'S+C'. I would have preferred using an ampersand: 'S&C', but I didn't have a stamp for that.

Thank you Claire and Scott for the order, and wishing you a long and happy marriage!

Claire and Scott's initials, stamped into dark blue fondant hearts.

The cakes are decorated with ivory buttercream, silver balls (I found some soft ones that won't break your teeth!), and mix of pale and dark blue flowers and the stamped fondant hearts.

Teeny-tiny cakes with S+C to go on the top layer of the cake stand.

Cake set-up at the venue (matching shirt optional!)

7-tier stand in action.

Tiny toppers.

Life in Black and White

A really interesting commission from Cath, who is studying Surface Pattern Design and wanted 12 black and white cakes topped with her own designs to complement her degree show stand.

I researched where Cath could have her toppers printed, and then made 12 dark, dark chocolate Guinness cakes and topped them with buttercream, but this time using vegetable fat instead of butter, so that the icing would be pure white.

The toppers were a new experience for me. They were fine to use if you got them right the first time, but once placed on the icing, they tore if I tried to move them. Luckily Cath had printed a few spares...

If you like Cath's work, you can see more of it here.


12 Black and White cakes with 12 toppers.




Cath's work in situ.