Wedding Cake with Chocolate Roses

I have decided to tackle the task of making my own wedding cake, and also recently had a relative ask me to make their wedding cake. So I decided that some practice was definitely needed, so I made this trial wedding cake.

This is a three tiered, stacked cake, with cream cheese icing, decorated with beads, ribbon and chocolate roses. I cooked three different cakes, one caramel mud cake, one white chocolate and raspberry mud cake and one gluten free butter cake. However, I was only happy with how one of the cakes turned out, so I would recommend sticking with one recipe for your cakes, that you know is good, and that you have been successful with before.

All up it took me about 20 hours of effort.

I hope that this instructable will give you some great tips, ideas and lessons learnt for if you want to tackle your own wedding cake project.

Step 1 Construct a timeline

If you are going to tackle a wedding cake, then you most definitely need to be organised, you will need to make sure that you set aside enough time to get it completed. Allow more time then you think you will need.

Keep in mind:

• How long will it take to bake the cakes?
• Do the cakes need to sit before they can be iced?
• How long will it take to ice the cakes?
• Does the icing need to set before decorating?
• How long will it take to decorate?
• How long will it take to buy anymore supplies that you may need?

Things that can be prepared in advance:

• Prepare the cake decorations (e.g. stringing beads, preparing ribbon, chocolate roses)
• Prepare cake bases and lining for tins (cut out cardboard bases for cakes, cut out baking paper for tins)
• Shop for all required materials and ingredients
• Since the cakes I made are mud cakes these can even be prepared ahead of time, mud cakes taste better if they're left to rest at least 3 days before eating them, and they also freeze really well, so you can make them as far in advance as you wish

Comments

[wedding marketing]

This is such great advice for anyone making their own wedding cake, I do think that this would add a tad bit of added stress and you must be a super organized bride to pull it off.
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[tcosgrove]

in the first part it says what flavours of cake you made one of which is white chocolate and raspberry mud cake. What ingrdients do you use for this :) Thanks

[CristyH]

I just used the white chocolate recipe and added frozen raspberries when I put the cake mixture in the tin. It didn't work out though, I think the mixture is too thin. All of the raspberries moved to the middle of the cake, and the cake didn't cook properly in the middle.

You could try adding the raspberries once you've baked it for a little while, then it might be a bit thicker, and they might stay put.

Good luck!

[cvu2]

Great work! I love your method for calculating the precise ingredient measurements.. including eggs! :)

[CristyH]

hehehe, thanks, I was worried if the egg measurements weren't just right, then maybe the cake wouldn't work as well :)

[zoepariscuthbert]

Looks awesome. I'm going to use this for my wedding cake for sure!

[lebowski]

Looks too nice to eat! Good work.

[CristyH]

Thanks! It was sooooo yummy though, it would be a crime not to eat it! hehehehe :)