I wanted to share with you a miniature wedding cake replica I made for one of my clients.
This project was commissioned earlier this year - my client needed it for May - so it's been completed for a while now. However, I wanted to wait to post pictures of it on social media, because my client wasn't sure if her daughter followed me on Instagram and I didn't want to spoil the surprise.
I was very excited to work on this cake from the get-go. I loved the amount of detail when I first saw pictures of the original cake and despite not having worked on this amount of detail on one single cake before, I was very excited to begin planning and working out all the sculpting stages. Even though I've made many cakes before, every cake is slightly different and it helps to sketch and think certain things ahead and have a clear plan about the process.
I found sculpting the piped work really therapeutic - it was all individually sculpted by hand - and with every layer I added, the cake sprung more and more to life. When it was finished, I fell even more in love with the colours, with the contrast between the mint-green frosting and the translucent red cherries; not to mention the cute little pink bows.
I genuinely think the cherries on top were literally "the cherry on the cake"!
You can find my sculpting techniques in my book "Miniature Cake Creations" - there are many projects to get you to practice different things, techniques to apply to your own ideas, improve your skills and get your sculpting juices flowing. It doesn't have to be perfect, it only needs to be fun.
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