Sorry to be the bearer of bad news, especially if you’re here looking for photos of your cake from a recent party, but it looks like I’ve had a bit of a blip and lost most of the 2008 posts. Don’t worry - the photos are stored in multiple secret locations, so they’re not gone forever. I should be able to have things back up as soon as I track down the problem - and if I can’t get the old posts back, I’ll repost the photos. Stay tuned
This hatbox cake was made for a wedding shower; the claret red and silver were some of the wedding colors, and the bride’s initial is on top of the lid. Most of the detail work is done with fondant accents, the silver dots are dragees, and the roses and leaves are gumpaste and fondant. I dusted the roses with powdered color to give them some dimension and variety. The pearls are fondant and coated with luster dust to give them a nice pearly shimmer. They’re threaded together and secured with toothpicks under the lid.
The hatbox lid is a dummy styrofoam layer covered in fondant - I was afraid that real cake would be too slippery to make the drive to the party, but now that I’ve done this once, I think that real cake would hold up OK. That’s the best part about these kinds of designs; they’re a little more complex and there are lots of pieces to think about, but the experience you gain from doing the first one certainly helps refine the process the next time!
