My first tiered wedding cake!!
My sister’s friend placed this order a while back for her sister’s wedding and she wanted a small wedding cake surrounded by little bitesize cupcakes in a pink and green theme. Now, I have NEVER done a tier cake before but thanks to MANY MANY hours watching tutorial videos on youtube, I felt I was ready to take the plunge!
I decided on handmade pink roses with a green and yellow background for the cake. Each rose took me about ten minutes to make and it was done everynight for a week before I felt I had enough for the whole design. I learnt how to make fondant roses from this tutorial, its dead simple but when you are a beginner like me… painfully slow 
Here are my better attempts as I stuck them on the cake.
The bottom tier is an 8 inch vanilla cake with a coffee cream filling and the top tier is a 6 inch chocolate cake with a mint filling. I covered the bottom layer with green fondant and the top with yellow fondant for contrast. Also stuck on the initials of the groom and bride with a few white daises for contrast.
View from the top
View from side
A few tiny little cupcakes with green and pink fondant to surround the cake!
Also had to quickly make 30 pink and green buttercream swirlies with daisies and I was finally done
This picture makes me crave watermelons
It was a big project that lasted about a week that wrecked my dining room and kitchen, covered the furniture, the cats and the floor with a thin layer of icing sugar and Pete was constantly going to the shops as we ran out of vital supplies but I do think it was worth it. It was such a thrill to see the reaction of my sister’s friend as she saw the cake the first time and I can only hope the bride and groom like it as much.
