Celtic Wedding

This week was a really fulfilling week for me for one reason in particular....which was that I had a customer particularly choose me for my own unique cake design.   I know this sounds strange...but really...so many times a caker is asked to replicate cakes online that they do not have too many chances to develop their own style that keeps the customers coming back for unique designs.    Often, my only custom designs are done on dummy cakes as a display or competition.

Several months ago, a soon-to-be bride was looking online for celtic cakes and found this photo of the one I created, in styrofoam, for the "Let Them Eat Cake" competition in Philadelphia in 2009:

She decided it was the cake she wanted, and she asked a few local (Reading, PA area) bakers if they could replicate it.   I guess they were taken aback, a bit...and said they didn't know that they could.   Then she realized that the original creator of the cake was only about an hour and fifteen minutes away...and she contacted me for a tasting/consult.

I was so pleased that she loved my creation enough to have me replicate it...this time in real cake!!!!    For the "real thing" I built an internal center support pole so that the cake would be sturdy for the longer transport, especially with the fourth tier larger than the third.    I also changed a few things from the original....I used a larger base board, again for a stable transport....I made the gold a more "true" gold color...and I changed the color of the piping-gel stained glass pattern to match her wedding colors:

In both cases, the cross is made of gumpaste, hand decorated in royal icing, and airbrushed gold, as well as the hard-to-see little symbolic wedding rings on the second tier.

I was so pleased to re-create this beautiful, unique wedding cake for my customer, and I wish her all the best in her marriage!!!

Most weeks I am also involved in making wedding cakes for the Inn at Lambertville Station.    In many cases I am not able to photograph the cakes before delivery because they end up getting flowers or other decorations on site later on, so eventually I hope to have a collection of those photographs to show in a separate blog post in the future, once the photographers send them to the planner at The Inn and she can pass them on to me.