Any favorite wedding cake designs?

[LadyDZA]

Originally Posted by jeri

You might try sitting down with her and showing her some of the pix on the internet, Carries is a great place because there are traditional mixed with more modern. Cakes by Sam also has a great mixture of cakes. Good Luck. I am sure she will be thrilled because you are making it for her!

I wish I could sit down with her and show her, but she lives in Georgia--14 hours away!! I wont even be seeing her until the day I make it!! She told me that she really doesn't care what I make her, to surprise her. I just want it to be perfect, ya know!! She doesn't know anything at all about cakes--she has never seen Ace of Cakes or anything of the sort. All she's ever seen is round white buttercream with white buttercream roses. So I think anything will surprise her!

As for the damask--the piping sounds like a piece of cake, I just wonder what they're using--is it chocolate or royal icing? And how would you make royal icing brown?

[2sdae]

I think that damask is a stencil, I have seen them use cutters too to get this effect.
Royal can be colored with powder colors pretty easy. I add it in the dry mix and if I need darker then add a tinge of black powdered food coloring.

[LadyDZA]

Neat, thanks 2sdae!! I was just thinking that one was piping bc of the description of how they did it under the picture!! It's really pretty. Too many cake design choices!

[2sdae]

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here's another in damask I found. This site is great for cake ideas too.

[2sdae]

If you click on the smaller pics under that damask cake you can get a very close view of it on cake up close.

[jeri]

That one definately looks like the Steven Benison cutters. It is a really nice look. His cutters are expensive but so versitle and very detailed. Much easier than the stencil! I haven't worked much with stencils though.