flower power

by oonagh
(ireland)

My best friend who is a "vintage" dress designer asked me to make her flower power wedding cake. she made her own vintage style wedding dress and wanted her cake to be covered completely in simple flower shapes with no detail, but she wanted it to have an old fashioned look.

The bottom tier was a very rich chocolate orange cake which I made to my late mothers recipe and it never fails to deliver. The middle tier was a fruit cake made to my dads recipe.(he only made fruit cakes once a year and then made cakes for his 8 children and his friends every christmas) The top tier was a zingy lemon cake from my own recipe with a lemon filling. I made my own marzipan and fondant to cover the cakes and then spent a lot of time(not sure how many hours) colouring the icing, cutting out the flowers and sticking them on. As i was gradually covering the cake in flowers,i wasnt sure about the colour scheme but i kept on sticking and i loved the finished look. My friend was delighted and displayed it on a stand draped with her mothers very old linen table cloth and surrounded it with pale pink tea roses in old china teapots. Its not the most time consuming cake ive made but i like the simplicity of it.