Hi everyone its Lorelie and welcome to Wedding Cakes For You - YouTube. So this is
my spring themed wedding cake, and I did this in collaboration with Rosie's
Dessert Spot. So we decided to do a spring theme, since spring is right
around the corner or actually it's here, finally, and we decided to do a spring
theme challenge. So I don't know yet what her cake looks like she doesn't know
what mine looks like, we just did our what we think of when we think of spring. So I
did a basket cake because I think baskets and flowers are to me means
spring, And these particular flowers are royal icing. Now I haven't done royal
icing in a long time so it was kind of fun because, this is actually a small
replica of a cake that I did for my sister-in-law back in the 80's. So it's
kind of a throwback. but I put a few little touches on it that kind of
bring it more up to 2018. One of the things I did was I added the white
chocolate on the top and that was actually Rosie's inspiration. And I in
the video I mostly show you how to make the flowers so if you're interested in
learning how to make royal icing flowers on toothpicks so you can just push them
into the cake and have this beautiful bouquet they're actually quite simple to
do so stay tuned and I'll see you on the other side.
You will need 1 pound of confectionery sugar, 3 egg whites, 1/2 teaspoon cream of
tartar and a squeeze of lemon juice. Crack and separate your eggs and put the
whites into a mixing bowl. Add your cream of tartar and the sugar and then the
squeeze of lemon juice. Mix that with a whisk, scrape down the bowl and beat
until it looks like this.
Add your coloring. Now this is just a tiny bit of pink Wilton gel. Cover the
remaining icing with a damp cloth to keep it from drying out. I added another
about 1/4 cup confectionery sugar to make the icing stiffer so that the
flowers will hold their shape. Here's what it looks like. This little spring
wedding cake is a very small cake, It's a nine inch, a six inch, and a four inch. So
here's how many flowers I used. I used 18 Daffodils, nine Daisies, ten Roses, sixteen
of the little violet flowers, 38 leaves and ten of little violet kind of grape
looking things. Then the vines. I did about I believe I did like 50 of those. Maybe more like 30 (I didn't count them)
I'm going to start with the Roses this is a tip number 103 Wilton.
And the Rose begins with a small ribbon of icing which I piped directly onto the
toothpick. Don't worry if they're not perfect because this part you won't see.
Put those into styrofoam to dry. For the leaves, the flower base, and the stamens
color your icing with green. This is Wilton moss green. Now using a round tip,
number 10 Wilton, make a cone shape and pipe enough of these for the Daffodils
and the Daisies. For the fantasy flower use a number 10 round and pipe
quarter-inch stamens on the end of the toothpick. Set those aside to dry.
Now pipe the leaves onto waxed paper. I'm using a 352, number 3 52 Wilton.
The Daisies are piped onto squares of waxed paper using a flower nail. Use a 102.
Start at the center, the thick side down (wide end of the petal tip down) and squeeze as you move the tip up
and then back down to form a petal.
You want to make sure that you keep your tip at a 45 degree angle for the
Daisy. (Wipe the tip on a damp cloth when the icing starts to build up on the tip)
These are mini Roses and you can use a 102 or 103 for these. I pipe the center,
three petals, and then five to six petals.
I call these fantasy flowers because I made these up. They remind me of a sweet
pea. Basically it's three petals around a green stamen. Some yellow centers finish
off the Daisy flowers. And I made these up as well with extra purple violet
icing.
I love the Daffodils, They are so sweet. You can pipe them directly onto the green
bases.
Now use the number 103 to make 5 petals holding your bag at a 45 degree angle.
Make sure you have a damp cloth handy for all of your royal icing flower
piping.
For the center hold the bag at a 90 degree angle and squeeze as you turn the
base to form a circle. You can go either direction here.
A piece of styrofoam can be used to dry your flowers.
Technically speaking the Daffodil has 6 petals and stamens in the center.
Let your flowers dry for at least a couple of hours and overnight is even
better.
One more time. I wanted to show you how to use a toothpick to clean up a mistake.
so I messed up the pedal a little bit.
The Daisies are glued on with just a little dab of royal icing.
The gum paste vines are really easy to make and they make a beautiful accent as
well as a filler. All you do is you just roll out your gum paste really thin. And
I used a green. I used a moss green for mine. After you roll it out you cut the
strips of various lengths and then you twist them around a pencil or a dowel
rod. Then just let them dry overnight that's it. I have a lot of tutorials on
putting cakes together so this particular part will be sped up. I will
place a link to those videos for you though below in the description box. For
the spring wedding cake tutorial I'm using my vanilla cake recipe. And for the
filling I'm using my easy buttercream recipe, which is just butter sugar and
flavoring. For the outside of the cake however I use my Italian meringue
buttercream recipe. Both of those can be found in the links below and if you'd
like to get a copy of my Top Five Buttercream Recipes EBOOK click the link below.
to sign up for my newsletter and I'll send you the link to download your free
copy. I'm crumb coating the cakes here this is for catching any loose crumbs
and also to lock in the moisture.
bubble straws or even regular-sized straws can be used to make dowels for
your cakes. I like to start by putting one straw in and then using the frosting
mark as a guide to mark and cut the rest of the dowels. I then use either coconut
or graham cracker crumbs to prevent the cardboard of the cake above from sticking.
For this tier I simply cut the
dowels right in the cake if the cake looks very even I will sometimes do this. SORRY TECHNICAL Audio ISSUES there. :-(
The center dowel is sharpened with a pencil sharpener and then pushed in from
the top to the bottom.
An easy way to raise your cakes to eye level is with a stack of books. For the
basket weaving I'm using my IMBC recipe, and this is in number 10 round Wilton
tip. Use a round tip if you want to create more of a Nantucket style basket.
I prefer that or I also like to use a star tip so star tip makes a really
pretty basket weave as well. Pipe a vertical line and then horizontal lines
across the vertical line.
Start by touching the surface of the cake with the decorating tip. Then begin to squeeze :-)
Keep a steady pressure on the bag until you complete your line to touch the surface once again.
I'll show you another angle in a moment and then we'll move on.
Here's another angle. Have a sharp knife handy to remove mistakes. I do have a
very detailed video on basket-weaving as well so look in the description box for
that link. I chose a simple pearl border for the bottom of each cake, with a
number 10 Wilton and a ruffle for the edging. Ruffle is 104. Alright so I've got my basket
weave cake ready to decorate and I did a little experiment in the back here
of a bouquet that I'm gonna use around the whole cake. So I'm going to go ahead
and do that now and you can watch me decorate it. And then I'll see you on the
other side.
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I decided to make a little topper out of white chocolate kind of like Rosie's style.
I just saw her tutorial on her feathered white chocolate shards which was really
cool. I didn't have a brush however so I used just a spoon and I spread out the
white chocolate in a little bit of green a little bit of white, and then I used a
toothpick to kind of create little edges on there. So I did that with 4 ounces
of white chocolate or a 114 grams, and then I used moss green and a little bit
of leaf green just to make a really soft color green.
I also made another one with squiggles just in case. I made a few pieces just to
play around with. When you do place your pieces on top of the cake do it quickly
because you're the heat of your hands will quickly melt that chocolate. And I
also use buttercream underneath to kind of stick it in so it would stay.
I hope you enjoyed my spring themed wedding cake, and that you took a moment to go
see Rosie's spring theme wedding cake as well. And also I hope that you're
inspired to either try to do some of this on your own, and if you do please
share that with me at Wedding Cakes For You. You can leave your story over there
and share your pictures. And you can also use hashtag lorelielook. And the
question that I wanted to ask you, if you could please comment in the box below is,
would you like to see me do a LIVE on these flowers? Because I would love to do
that. So just leave me a comment below. Let me know specifics like is there a
certain type of flower that you want me to share? a certain type of icing? a
certain technique? I would love to to do that for you. Okay well thanks a lot
for being here and happy spring and I'll see you next week. I do upload
every week, so you'll see a new video every week and sometimes a bonus and now
soon we're gonna do LIVE. Hopefully next week. Okay bye... :-)
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