I did my first wedding cake last weekend. It was an out of town wedding so I baked the cake at my house and then we drove the hour and half to to the hotel we were staying in and my wonderful husband helped me decorate the cake in our hotel room after we put our kids to bed. Not my ideal situation for decorating however I was still happy with how it turned out and our family (it was a family wedding) were all happy about the cake. Most importantly the bride and groom were happy with the cake!
I also made a side slab cake for the dessert table.
I made calla lilies out of gum paste and I covered the whole cake with fondant.
One of my biggest challenges with this cake came with the decorating. The hotel room was warm and I had a really hard time getting it cool enough for the fondant. Usually when decorating a cake with fondant I would have a fairly cool room to work in so that the fondant doesn't melt. In the hotel room the fondant started to melt on me, we did however manage to get the room cooler for the end of the decorating and we were able to fix most of the problems.
What do you think of my first wedding cake??
