My dear friend, Winema, had her 40th birthday last week. It was a wonderful party with lots of family and friends. Her mother gave me a call several months ago and got on my calendar to make an elegant cake with chocolate throughout. She said I could do whatever I wanted so I chose a Topsy Turvy cake in black and white. I had the chance to practice on a single tier cake which I put in a previous post. This cake, however, was more of a challenge. I used fondant from Walmart. Usually I don't have problems but it kept tearing when I tried to put it on. I really got frustrated. I used the molds to help me cover some of the defects and it turned out pretty well.
The other issue was structure. Because the cake is supposed to look "wonky" it was hard to know if I had it level to put on each tier. I have decided to get a small level just for cakes like this. Don helped me with the structure and found some hardware that had a flat circle on top and screwed over my dowels. This helped the dowels to not poke into the cake board and sink. I used a center structure that you can add to. It was made of plastic and came in several sizes to fit the sizes of each tier. Got those at Walmart too. I believe they are from Wilton so you can order those on line.
I had difficulty finding tiered cake structures for this cake. Then it hit me that it is wedding season and so everyone was looking for them. I should have planned better and ordered on line more in advance. Don is a great help with structure and fixed me up very nicely and the cake was very stable.
They loved the cake, so with all the grief it gave me it was a success. |
| Happy Birthday beautiful lady. So proud of you! |
