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DIY birch-style wedding cake

DIY birch-style wedding cake
This is my entry for the DIY Wedding challenge so please vote for me, if you like this instructable :)

I'll show you step by step, how to make this elegant birch-style wedding cake.
also I give you advice for your time-management, so that you can do the cake stressless  :)

The cake is quite easy-worked with, the style forgives mistakes and they can be conceiled easily

you wont need that much special equipment for this cake the only thing are the food colourings, a piping bag and the leaf  plunger cutters.

Have fun!
 
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Step 1Materials needed

3 Cakes in different diameters,baked after your favorite recipe (sponge cakes work great!!!) filled with wathever you desire.

marzipan
cocoa
sugarfondant or marshmallowfondant ( i only use the one made of marshmallows)
confectioners sugar
green food colouring (i worked with party green and christmas green from sugarflair)
brown and black food colouring ( i worked with liquorice and chestnut from sugarflair)
1 egg white
gum tragacanth ( optional but nice to have if the weather is moist and very warm!)


tools:
a sharp knife
scissors
ROSE LEAF PLUNGER CUTTER (very nice to have)
a rolling pin
pizza wheel
a tooth pick
baking paper
cling foil
10 drinking -straws
paint brush one fine and one broad
2 or 3 thin cake boards
evtl. vodka for thinning the food colourings
a hand mixer
piping bag with small round nozzle

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Jul 22, 2011. 11:09 AMCatTrampoline says:
Very nice job. Different, non-traditional but still classy & elegant.
When I made my wedding cake, I baked the cake part about a week ahead, glazed the layers to keep them from drying out, and froze them. Then it was easy to do the assembly & frosting the day before the wedding.

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