Wedding cake is a piece of art

My church friends got married last Friday, they ordered 2 wedding cakes. I was so happy to have this opportunities to work on it for them.

It's quite challenging because I was making them for 125 person!! I was quite stressful last whole week... timing & ingredients are quite important to make cakes :s

One thing drove me crazy is that to mess up the kitchen, I really hate seeing my kitchen being dirty and messy! I liked keeping it clean while I was baking cakes haha! I wipe the table all the time when I cook :s do I have OCD?? 
When I made the icing, the icing sugar just spread everywhere... EVERYWHERE! I just let it spread everywhere and clean up at the end this time as I was making few batches of icing :s felt so good when I cleaned up the kitchen, I even mopped the floor...


Making the 3-level cake was challenging, it is so heavy! I was lucky that I bought the turning platform when I was in London. When I iced the cake, I could turn around and made it even. It is indeed an important tool to invest if you want to ice a round cake nicely.

For the decoration, I really sticked the pearls ONE BY ONE!! Actually at the beginning when I finished icing the cake, I thought it's good to leave it like that because the icing was nicely done :) but then I thought it would be nice to have some pearls on it to make it more elegant. 
So I started putting pearls... it took me hours to finish it. But when I took a photo, I found that these hours of work worths!

My original design was to put some roses and some other flowers of the bouquet on the top of the round cake. On the wedding day I guess they didn't buy them, but they had only other flowers left to decorate the wedding venue.
So... I just assembled what I had on hand, the effect looked good also. I was surprised hehe!

See... creativity haha!
Yay! I like it :)






PS I love the smell of the icing and the cake haha, I was tempted to eat it when I work on it :p


I know my cats were so tempted to eat it!












I try not to forget mentioning the square cake haha, it's pretty also :) I like putting the initial of their names "S" & "E" - it is not my design, I just used their design on the invitation card :)










My moment of victory - When the cakes brought out, people took photo of the couple with the cake (I know, they are the main focus point of the whole event), but also the cakes alone hoho, I was happy :) 
The couple tasted it immediately, they told me it was tasty and beautiful :D Ahhh... I am relieved.

NOW, let me have some rest this week and relax :)