Description：

Date：2006.10.7.

Body： 6" cake dummy, 9" and 12" cake (each has two layers of taro filling).

Decoration： fondant, gum paste, royal icing, color paste, floral cloth wires, tulle, ribbon, pearl dust and luster dust.

Tools： rolling pin, piping bag, tip, leaf veiner, 6mm bead maker.

Base： 8" and 16" cake drum, ribbon, fondant.

This is for Nini's wedding. Two months ago, she wrote me emails and asked if I can make a wedding cake for her. At that time, I was not sure if I would visit China in October, so I couldn't promise her nor start planning on this cake yet. Then, later in September, we finally decided to cancel the trip, and I could actually start working on this project. Time was running out, but I got stuck with another project for Chinese Mid-autumn Festival: moon cake making. I spent almost 2 weeks on the moon cake experiments, so this cake project was delayed again...

I started making the roses on Oct. 1, only a week before the wedding day, which is kind of rush for me because I have to work everyday, and can only spend the evening hours on my hobbies. For the whole week, I worked on the sugar flowers from 8 pm till 2 am and then got up for work on the next day. Finally, I finished this cake on the wedding day and was able to deliver it two hours earlier before the wedding banquet started.

The 6" small cake is actually a dummy... Nini said she only needed to serve 75 people, so she planned to order a two-layer cake of 9" and 12". But I suggested having an extra layer using a dummy to make the cake taller, this way, the cake looks more like a "wedding cake" and would be also easier for me to do the decorating. Since her wedding was in fall, I decided to paint the roses into heavy red and purple colors to show the colorful impression of the season. Let me wish her a beautiful and romantic life with her hubby, happily ever after.

Roses (before being painted):

Some pictures of assembling the cake: