Welcome to #MadeItMonday, where I post something I’ve made in the previous week, and where you can join in and post something you made too! The rules are easy: post a pic somewhere of something you’ve made in the last week (ish; let’s say in the last month as the hard-and-fast) and tag it. Sit back and enjoy scrolling through all the beautiful things we’ve collectively created, and celebrate the fact that humans can be awesome!
My longest friend got married on the weekend, and naturally, I had the privilege of making the cake. This was the most interesting cake brief that I think I’ve ever had: gum leaves, caramel popcorn and cotton flowers!
The cake was for ~110 people, so I needed four cakes (I tend to allow 25-30 wedding-style serves per cake), plus a dietary requirement one for all us complicated people 😉 (I made a GF vegan chocolate mud cake with nectarine “butter”cream, and it was actually super yum, and I will totally make that combination again.)
So: Really Big Cake, with popcorn and leaves and cotton.
I decided that I didn’t want to just pull the cotton flowers off and use them individually like most cotton-bearing cakes do; the branches are actually lovely and part of the cotton’s charm, so I wanted to feature those. This meant that I had to do something a bit different with the structure of the cake, as the branches are relatively hefty and wouldn’t work on just a standard stacked-up cake.
So I decided to anchor it all with a big double-cake tier at the bottom, and then offset the top two tiers, floating them off the bottom layer and overlapping them out to one side to provide a bit more visual space in the cake. All of which meant that, for the cake to be structurally sound and not in danger of falling over (been there, done that, never want to crash a wedding cake ever again), it needed a central pole for support – which meant getting the drill out to drill holes in the cake boards!
I mean, why make a cake if you’re not going to learn something from it, right? 😀
Anyway, pretty happy with how it ended up, though as with anything creative, you’re never *done*, you just call it quits 😀
Some of the pics are mine, and some are courtesy of my lovely sister, and some from the wonderful Clare – oh, and the one of me is courtesy of my mum :3 <3
And now, what have you made this week? Don’t forget to tag your contribution, or even better, leave a link in the comments!! I love seeing what inspiring things other people have made 🙂 🙂 🙂