Cascades of Flowers Cake

by Jamie Young
(Thousand Oaks, CA USA)

Made by Jamie Young

This cake is a double layered cake covered in fondant and delicate decorations added in butter cream frosting.

Each layer is made up of both chocolate and classic yellow cake. The bottom tier is an 8" round pan and the top tier is a 4" round pan. Each tier is also bottom layered with chocolate and top layered with yellow cake with a white butter cream filling in each one.

Once the cakes have been baked according to the directions on the box, each was left to cool completely before assembling into a tier. After being crumb coated in butter cream, the tiers were left in the fridge over night.

White fondant was rolled out to 1/4" thickness and each tier was carefully covered. After smoothing and trimming of the excess fondant, the bottom tier had 5 dowels placed in the center for proper support. The top tier was then added to the cake. After both tiers were re-smoothed, a 1" ribbon of fondant was placed at the bottom of each tier to cover any gaps that may have occurred in the stacking process.

Once the ribbons were firmly attached, butter cream in pink, blue and purple were mixed. With a tip #2, cornelli lace was added to each tier in blue.

To add depth and dimension 4 roses were added to the top tier in blue, pink and purple. The roses were made also with butter cream and tip #104.

The smaller flowers were added last to give the cascading effect and those were also in butter cream in pink, purple and blue with tip #35 and #33. Each color was also intertwined with each other to give a multi-colored look to the roses as well as the drop flowers.

Lastly, with tip #5, small dots were placed at the bottom of each ribbon for added texture and dimension.

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Mar 01, 2010
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flowers
by: Kelly

I think the cake is very pretty and I love the scroll work or whatever it's called.

Opinions are like _ _ _ holes. Everybody has one and they all stink. So what I mean is, don't let someone get you down with their opinion.

I had a lady call the other day wanting a cake and said more than a dozen times, she didn't expect the cake to look nice. Again, to each his own opinoin.

I think it's beautiful. You did a great job!

Feb 26, 2010
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I LIKE IT!!
by: NANCY

I LIKE YOUR CAKE AND THE COLORS YOU DID. IT'S VERY NEAT AND COLORFUL. YOUR FLOWERS ARE PRETTY AND NOTHING WRONG WITH IT AS FAR AS I CAN SEE. KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK, AND BE PROUD..NANCY OF CA

Feb 26, 2010
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the cascade
by: funmi

the cascade of fowers is not full enough or visible as i expect it to be and the choice of colors not okay for me, but the cake is really brilliant, just the decor that did not do justice to the cake. thank you

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