Today was the day to assemble and decorate the wedding cakes for tomorrow with Kacean.
We started the day off by making raspberry coulis, raspberry mousse and raspberry buttercream. After those were made we got started making the giraffe grooms cake. We pulled out the sheetcake and put the stencil Berylann had drawn up on top and cut out the giraffe. It looked like a horse with a long neck so I worked on it for a minute and extended the legs and then it looked more like a giraffe. He was really cute.
Kace frosted him up with some buttercream and we covered him in fondant.
Once covered, I worked on smoothing the fondant as much as possible. It was really patched together because it was such a funny shape. Kace got started on the actual wedding cake.
We had a lot of problems that just happened one after another and the problem solving took a lot of time. First we had the tiers stacked on top of each other, covered in fondant and dusted with silver luster dust. The top tier was way too big and it just wasn't going to work. Kacean was beyond frustrated at this point so I took over while Kace sprayed the giraffe yellow.
I pulled the top tier off, laid a 6" plate on top and cut the tier smaller. I re-frosted it and re-covered it on fondant. Once it was put back on the cake, it looked a lot better. We re-dusted it with the silver luster dust and got to work on the fondant ribbon that would go around the base of the tiers. After a few minutes the luster dust started to sink into the fondant and the cake started to turn a gray color. Neither of us were very happy with it and made the decision to spray it purple. I thought we would spray it lavendar and do a dark purple ribbon but the spray ended up being very dark so we did a lavendar ribbon.
A few more problems later (such as running out of airbrush air, forgetting the vodka to spray the coloring on with at Kace's apartment and a few others) we had the cake sprayed and prepped for us to take home. We would be making flowers, butterflies and decorating at home.
Kace piped frosting on the cupcakes and we loaded up the car and headed home to make tiny flowers for the cupcakes, chocolate roses and chocolate butterflies.
Kace had a long night getting everything finished and I headed over in the morning to help her decorate and assemble everything together.
Berylann had helped the night before by painting the giraffe and he turned out so cute!
After everything was assembled and decorated we headed to the church to set up the cakes and take some pictures.
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They turned out pretty good and Kirsten (Kacean's friend) was happy with them and that's what matters.
The giraffe even bled when the head was cut off, just like it was supposed to!
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I had fun having Kacean come to school with me for 2 days. We make a good team and I'm sure we'll make more cakes in the future.
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