On Sunday, May 24th one of my best friends, Robyn, got married. Not only was I one of her bridesmaids, but I made her wedding cake as well. She wanted the cake to be very non-traditional and funky. At her request I made the cake black to match the bridesmaid’s dresses and I included brightly colored gerbera daisies to match the bouquets we carried.

The cake was five tiers of cookies and cream cake with chocolate ganache filling and vanilla buttercream. Each tier was covered in black fondant and decorated with green royal icing in a cornelli lace pattern. The gerbera daisies were all made out of gumpaste. I attached a dowel to the cake board that went through all the cakes in order to support the top tier and to make it look like the stems of the gerbera daisies were going through the top cake. I used green straws wrapped in florist tape for the flower stems.

Keeping with the theme from both the engagement and bridal shower cakes I also made for Robyn, I included a bride and groom that I hand made out of fondant. Since her new husband, Bryan, is a fireman I made sure to include a firehat as well.