My mum’s best friend from school married my dad’s best friend from the army at the weekend.
They asked a few months ago if I could make their wedding cake. Originally, I had said no as we only got back from a 3-week holiday the week before, and it meant I’d be making the cake in evenings between my actual job and sleep. I also don’t like doing tiered wedding cakes due to them being stressful and needing to be perfect. It turned out that the bride wanted a cupcake tower though! Yes, still stressful trying to get it all done in a few nights after work, but it was a LOT easier than a tiered cake and so I agreed to do it.
I helped myself by making the daisy toppers at the start of June before we went away so that they had time to dry out whilst we were out of the country.
I also bought some cake wrappers in their colour scheme to make them look prettier. This was playing around with the wrappers and (artificial) flowers to check the layout.
The cakes requested were vanilla or lemon flavours. Firstly, I made vanilla cakes and used a cake coring tool to remove some sponge, fill with strawberry conserve, and replace the sponge.
I did the same with the lemon sponges, only filling those with lemon curd:
In total, there were nearly 60 vanilla cupcakes, and around 55 lemon ones. I had made cake batter to do 48 of each, but my usual recipe is for slightly larger cupcakes so I had extras which were completely fine for decorating the table around the cake stand.
The cakes were topped with buttercream and fondant daisies (and some pearl sprinkles). I used a Jem 3J tip for all of the cakes. White wrappers were used for vanilla, and yellow for lemon to differentiate the two:
Finally, I had checked if they had any vegan guests. There would be one, so I made a box of vegan cupcakes too. 3 were lemon, and 3 were vanilla. The only difference for these ones was that the lemon cakes did not contain lemon curd (due to egg content)
The cake stand ended up being set up by the venue staff as they were setting up when I arrived in the morning to drop things off (I had to go early as I was also a guest). Thankfully, they set everything up perfectly and I was happy with how it all turned out.
