Cake! magazine by Australian Cake Decorating Network May 2014 | Page 176

From the decorator:

splay from January
s part of my wedding expo di
This cake wa
lay cakes for the event,
I created a new range of disp
this year.
s! This one in particular
were inspired by so many thing
which
s, elegance, fashion, and
influenced by royalty, richnes
was
royalty with the richness of
e Caketress. It encompasses
Th
imsical element
embellishments, and also a wh
the gold and
lias, tulips, roses and
odern, bright flowers (magno
with the m
peonies).
ruffles on the
te texture with the subtle, soft
I wanted to crea
), and also the inted delicately with gold lustre
top tier (dus
two of the tiers creding lines from the flowers on
dented lea
e primary colour palette
me interesting focal points. Th
ated so
ich would then be accentuteal, pink, white and gold, wh
was
peach of the other flowers.
ated with the yellow and deep
created, and I
the largest display cakes I’ve
This is one of
e pleasing to the eye
balance it out and make it mor
wanted to
s, adding to its elegance.
mix of shapes and tier height
with a
ving them only
decorations to a minimum, lea
I kept the gold
rals.
as accents, to highlight the flo
sing cakes I’ve
e of the fastest and most plea
It was on
tly as I sketched it!
created, as it turned out exac
it’s entirety.
It took 3 days to complete in
en as the cover
I’m so elated for it to be chos
ke!
image and as a feature in Ca
- Michelle
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