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    Snowflake Winter Wedding Cake

    Published: Nov 9, 2020

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    Snowflake Winter Wedding Cake

    Detail photo of a 4 tier white wedding cake, piped with an intricate lace design, and adorned with a cascade of 3D piped snowflakes.

    This Snowflake Winter Wedding cake is stunning... but deceptively easy to make. This post looks back on it, and how it was made.

    Note: This post is very photo-intensive, and may take a bit longer to load!

    There comes a point in every former cake artist’s life, where you’re sitting on literally thousands of photos from your previous career, and start getting wrapped up in nostalgia.

    Well, I’m assuming as much, anyway.

    As my cake career mostly happened before the height of social media - and definitely before Pinterest & Instagram! - most of my photos have been languishing away in archived folders on our backup servers, never having seen the light of... well, anyone else’s monitors!

    No, back in the day, I’d post a single photo of a cake to my website. Very small res photos, just one overall, straightforward view of each cake, as a cataloging photo.

    The shame here is that my husband actually took many photos of most of the cakes I made, back in the day.

    Detail photo of a 4 tier white wedding cake, piped with an intricate lace design, and adorned with a cascade of 3D piped snowflakes.

    I have a lot of really gorgeous detail shots, artistic angles of full cakes, etc.

    Detail photo of a 4 tier white wedding cake, piped with an intricate lace design, and adorned with a cascade of 3D piped snowflakes.

    Detail photo of a 4 tier white wedding cake, piped with an intricate lace design, and adorned with a cascade of 3D piped snowflakes.

    Detail photo of a 4 tier white wedding cake, piped with an intricate lace design, and adorned with a cascade of 3D piped snowflakes.

    So, I’d like to take a walk down memory lane, share some of that photography, and talk about how the cakes were made!

    Detail photo of a 4 tier white wedding cake, piped with an intricate lace design, and adorned with a cascade of 3D piped snowflakes.

    Snowflake Wedding Cake

    This Snowflake themed wedding cake was always one of my favourites, both in the actual execution, and as far as the photography went:

    Detail photo of a 4 tier white wedding cake, piped with an intricate lace design, and adorned with a cascade of 3D piped snowflakes.

    It was a HUGE departure from my normal style of cake, which tended to involve a lot of fondant.

    Having the opportunity to do piped icing of any kind ended up being kind of a rare treat!

    The base cake here was covered in fondant, though it didn’t NEED to be. You could just as easily make this cake entirely based in buttercream (Swiss Meringue Buttercream, ideally - it was always my favourite!), should you so desire.

    Detail photo of a 4 tier white wedding cake, piped with an intricate lace design, and adorned with a cascade of 3D piped snowflakes.

    The fun thing about this wedding cake was that the vast majority of the work could be done in advance of the normal cake decorating time line.

    The snowflakes are all piped out of royal icing, and allowed to fully harden.

    Detail photo of a 4 tier white wedding cake, piped with an intricate lace design, and adorned with a cascade of 3D piped snowflakes.

    Once they’re hard, these snowflakes can be VERY GENTLY transferred to a protective, airtight container, and put aside until it’s go time.

    That was a nice change from the rush to do all of the decorating the day before - or day of - a wedding or special event.

    Instead, all that needs to be done for this one is to frost and/or fondant the base layers, and pipe out the lacy design on top of each layer.

    Detail photo of a 4 tier white wedding cake, piped with an intricate lace design, and adorned with a cascade of 3D piped snowflakes.

    Then, the royal icing snowflakes are affixed to the cake with more royal icing.
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    I would do this final decoration step at the venue, because I am NOT gutsy enough to transport the cake in this state!

    Detail photo of a 4 tier white wedding cake, piped with an intricate lace design, and adorned with a cascade of 3D piped snowflakes.

    Lacy Wedding Cake Design

    In this case, I piped the top surface / edge of each layer with a Cornelli lace design, randomly extending slightly down the sides of the cake, to be evocative of icicles.

    Additionally, I piped random half snowflakes onto the base of each layer, forming an interesting border.

    Finally, I piped a basic beaded border at the very base of each layer, to tie it all together.

    Detail photo of a 4 tier white wedding cake, piped with an intricate lace design, and adorned with a cascade of 3D piped snowflakes.

    Looking Back on this Winter Wedding Cake

    While I love the cake to this day, I’ve got to say... looking back on the super close detail photos makes me shudder a bit, now.

    This was very early in my cake decorating career, and I was DEFINITELY not as practiced at piping as I was with fondant work.

    This was the second time I'd made this cake - we didn't get great photos of the first one, so I made a second as a styrofoam "dummy" cake.

    Detail photo of a 4 tier white wedding cake, piped with an intricate lace design, and adorned with a cascade of 3D piped snowflakes.

    I'm glad I did... though I'm kicking myself for using a cardboard circle to extend the diameter of the acrylic cake base underneath, rather than either waiting for a larger one to be returned, or asking my husband to make another large one.

    Fondant work was fairly close to working with fabric, after all. Having spent many years as a Fashion & Costume Designer before my transition to cake... I definitely preferred fondant to piping, overall.

    Detail photo of a 4 tier white wedding cake, piped with an intricate lace design, and adorned with a cascade of 3D piped snowflakes.

    So, I see the mistakes, now. I see all of the little peaks that should have been patted down before the frosting dried, the changes in pressure that came from hesitation, etc.

    Even so, it was a stunning cake - and dropped everyone’s jaws at the time.

    I doubt I’ll ever make another wedding cake, but some day... some day I may remake this as a “dummy” cake, just to see how it would look, now.

    Detail photo of a 4 tier white wedding cake, piped with an intricate lace design, and adorned with a cascade of 3D piped snowflakes.

    More Cake Photos

    Interested in seeing - and reading - more details of some of my favourite cakes I’ve made over the years? Check out these links:

    Bubble Bobble Wedding Cake
    Clarice, Have the Lambs Stopped Screaming?
    Dalek Cake for a Doctor
    Lambeth Wedding Cake
    Meringue Flowers
    SO.. I made a Cake for Amanda Palmer (NSFW)
    Spumoni Cake & The Art of Trolling Cake Competitions
    That Time I Made a Cake for a Pack of Klingons
    The Story of Foopmallet
    TARDIS for Wil Wheaton
    Tremors Wedding Cake

    Cover image for the "Evil Cake Overlord" cookbook.  A band of purple crosses the cover, which displays 5 different cakes.

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    We've long been known for our “ridiculously delicious” moist cakes and tasty, unique flavors. Now, you can have recipes for all of the amazing flavors on our former custom cake menu, and many more!

    Bake your moist work of gastronomic art, then fill and frost your cake with any number of tasty possibilities. Milk chocolate cardamom pear, mango mojito.. even our famous Chai cake – the flavor that got us into “Every Day with Rachel Ray” magazine!

    Feeling creative? Use our easy to follow recipe to make our yummy fondant. Forget everything you’ve heard about fondant – ours is made from marshmallows and powdered sugar, and is essentially candy – you can even flavor it!

    Order your copy directly through my site, through Amazon, or through any major bookseller!

    Detail photo of a 4 tier white wedding cake, piped with an intricate lace design, and adorned with a cascade of 3D piped snowflakes.

    Cake Recipes!

    Looking for some ridiculously delicious cake recipes? As the "Evil Cake Overlord", I've got you covered! (Ps: Check out my instructions for making Marshmallow Fondant, as well!)

    Tortes:
    B-52 Torte
    Bahama Mama Torte
    Blood Orange Truffle Torte
    Citrus Splendor Torte
    Cookies N Cream Cake
    Raspberry Tiramisu Torte
    Schmoo Torte
    Spumoni Cake
    Tiger Tail Cake

    Bundt, Sheet, & Upside Down Cakes
    Bananas Foster Upside Down Cake
    Brandied Apple Upside Down Cake
    Deep N Delicious Cake
    French Martini Bundt Cake
    French Martini Upside Down Cake
    Mango Mojito Upside Down Cake
    Pina Colada Bundt Cake
    Strawberry Mango Marble Cake

    Cupcakes:
    3D Monarch Butterfly Cupcakes
    Chai Cupcakes
    Easy Butterfly Cupcakes
    Fat Elvis Cupcakes
    Lynchburg Lemonade Cupcakes
    Pink Grapefruit Daiquiri Cupcakes

    Also: I have Cake Decorating Tutorials, and posts about previous Decorated Cakes that I've made.

    Detail photo of a 4 tier white wedding cake, piped with an intricate lace design, and adorned with a cascade of 3D piped snowflakes.

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