I love carving and creating structured cakes, but I also love making gorgeous wedding cakes. So when my sweet Cousin got engaged I couldn’t WAIT to sit down with her and designing the cake. We went through more designs on this cake than any other, BUT once you come up with the perfect design you just KNOW it!
It’s a HUGE cake, super heavy, but it looked just lovely! I love the different height’s on the layers and everyone loved all the different flavors too! We had coconut with coconut filling, strawberry with lemon cream cheese filling, white with white chocolate and chocolate with chocolate!
For the top tier I added fondant pleats and then a line of buttons matching the gorgeous back of the dress. It was super easy to make, roll out thin fondant, cut in quick stripes of different widths and wrap them around.
This couple is hilarious! The groom wore his DAD’S wedding tux, thus the blue ribbon around the bottom of the cake, to match this retro baby blue tux (complete with ruffled shirt, seriously). I love watching the couples try to cut the cake. Everyone thinks they know to cut a cake until that MOMENT when all eyes are on you and you realize you have NO idea how to cut a wedding cake!
Jesseca
January 31, 2014 at 9:29 amI love that middle layer! You did a great job incorporating the look of the dress into the cake!
Ashlee
February 6, 2014 at 2:14 amThanks! It’s fun to play with the different heights of the cake! And I love modeling the cake after the dress, kind of highlights the bride even more that way!
Laura Muir
January 31, 2014 at 9:47 amWow. I am blown away by how gorgeous this cake is!!! I wish I would have had you do our wedding cake (9 years ago!!) Ha ha. You are totally amazing! Bravo!
xoxo
Laura
Ashlee
February 6, 2014 at 2:15 amAwww thank you so much! I wish I had me at my wedding 13 years ago… My cake was my biggest disappointment! Also cakes are so much more FUN now than they work back then! they were so standard and boring when we got married
Audra @ RealityToDreams
January 31, 2014 at 10:17 amYou are so incredibly talented! I need to hire you for a cake! I agree with Jesseca – I love how you incorporated the dress into the cake!
Ashlee
February 6, 2014 at 2:16 amThanks so much! and I’d of COURSE love to work with you on a cake!
amy demik
January 31, 2014 at 10:39 amWow, this is incredible!!! This is such a gorgeous cake! Love that you customized it to coordinate with her dress. I so totally want a piece right now! XO
Ashlee
February 6, 2014 at 2:19 amthanks! I love using the brides dress as a jumping off point! It makes it a great centerpiece and compliments the bride wonderfully!
Chelsea Peterson
January 31, 2014 at 2:07 pmI can not remember my flavors, one was a chocolate….. and then we have a cheesecake as a grooms cake with strawberries that looked like tuxedos! That’s all I remember!
Ashlee
February 6, 2014 at 2:21 amAll I remember is your cake being crocked and worrying it was going to fall over! my own cake all I remember is the TERRIBLE fondant work, but thankfully our florist covered it all up and it ended up looking nice!
The Funster
January 31, 2014 at 2:27 pmAshlee,
First of all your cake looks amazing! The detail is awesome. Secondly, you obviously love what you do! As the saying goes if you love what you do, you’ll never work a day in your life! And if “everything went wrong” as you stated in your post, you sure couldn’t tell!
Ashlee
February 6, 2014 at 2:23 amawww thanks! My husbands “rule” for me working is “if it isn’t fun stop doing it” (since I’m a stay at home mom first and only work for my own enjoyment, he doesn’t want me to start feeling like I HAVE to work and hating it). And GAH it was like a cursed cake, but I worked it out. It did take longer than I expected it too!
Carrie
January 31, 2014 at 11:03 pm“but I also love making gorgeous wedding cakes…” You got that right, this is GORGEOUS!!! You caught the lacy/dressy look perfectly! Im not kidding, this is my all time favorite cake that you have made so far.
Your cousin and her husband look soooo happy! Oh and will you pass it on to your sister, Chelsea, her pics look great!
Ashlee
February 6, 2014 at 2:25 amThank you so much! This one turned out great, I was really happy with it. but just WAIT until you see the one I delivered yesterday (or if you follow me on instagram or FB you probably have already seen it)! It’s my NEW favorite. Usually my most recent is my favorite though, which is how it should be, right?
Mityn
February 1, 2014 at 1:52 pmI had a vanilla cake with raspberry filling. Funny story, I put the leftovers in my mom’s freezer to save for our anniversary. When the time came, it was gone! My mom totally denied eating it, then later admitted it. Ha! She couldn’t resist eating our delicious cake.
I absolutely love this one you made, love the monochromatic design. Amazing!
Ashlee
February 6, 2014 at 2:26 amThat’s GREAT!!! it means you had a good tasting cake! I love decorated cakes of course, but my big pet peeve is when a pretty cake tastes bad, so disappointing. I’d rather have an ugly cake that tastes AMAZING, but one that tastes great AND looks great? BEST THING EVER!