Wedding Cake

This was the cake I made for my step-daughter, Shelley's wedding in August 2004.

She said the only present she wanted from me was the cake...which came as a bit of a surprise as I'd never made a fruit cake (that's the traditional cake for weddings in the UK) and the last fancy cake I'd made was about 10 years ago, it was a chocolate cake that was meant to be a hedgehog but looked more like road-kill!

So anyway, I got the fruit cake recipe from a retired chef I know and baked 4 cakes: 1 large, 2 medium and 1 small. I used one of the medium cakes to practice the icing on. (smart huh!? )

I copied the embroidery on Shelley's wedding dress as the design for the piped icing and used a heart shaped cutter for indentations and the hearts around the bases of each cake. I used an upturned wine glass that I had painted in gold and blue, the colours of her future husband, Ed's forces dress uniform, to separate the top and middle tier and added the curled gold and blue ribbons, then finished it off with the Enesco sculpture as the top piece.

Shelley loved it and I got very many compliments on the day...some people even thought I did it as a living! Hah!! Oh and nobody got food poisoning!

Oh yeah and we ate the spare, practice cake at Christmas!