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Golden Blue Tit Wedding Cake

We have been excited to create this wedding cake for months now. It encompasses everything we love in this year’s wedding cake trends; birds, ivory lace, gold sheens and soft blues! Our brief was to design, bake and decorate a Blue Tit themed wedding cake with ivory roses and blue hydrangeas pulled together with a vintage feel.

Golden Blue Tits Wedding Cake

To achieve a lovely rustic and vintage look to the gold of the cake we painted the sheen onto the surface once iced with mustard coloured fondant. Using a large, soft paint brush and applying the sheen in three coats helps to get a luxurious taffeta look.

Golden Blue Tits Wedding Cake

Every single flower on this cake was hand made by yours truly! There is a total of three large, fully bloomed ivory roses and forty individual hydrangea flowers. A total of three hours work!

Golden Blue Tits Wedding Cake

The sweet little Blue Tits that adorn the middle of the cake were sculpted from modelling paste. We then hand painted them in shades of blue, turquoise, green, lemon and black.

The actual cake inside is a soft chocolate and vanilla marble cake with surprise shocks of pink, filled with vanilla pod infused buttercream and smoothed down with a delicious chocolate ganache!

Golden Blue Tits Wedding Cake

From the adorable little hand painted birds to the taffeta inspired gold effect and vintage 50s/60s feel lace border we loved creating every part of this cake! It was definitely hard for us to see it leave.

 

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‘Tutorial Tuesday’ : How to make a sugarpaste/fondant bluebird!

‘Tutorial Tuesday’ : How to make a sugarpaste/fondant bluebird!

'Tutorial Tuesday' : How to make a sugarpaste/fondant bluebird

In this week’s tutorial we will show you how to create your very own little bluebird. This simple sugarpaste model is quick, easy and fun to make and perfect for any occasion. Why not transform your bluebird into a robin, blackbird or sparrow? Simply custom-colour your sugarpaste to create a bird fit for your occasion. This cute, cartoon-like bluebird adds a touch of fun to the current wedding trend.

'Tutorial Tuesday' : How to make a sugarpaste/fondant bluebird

What you need…

Sugarpaste in three colours (we coloured white modelling paste using Wilton sky blue and Wilton golden yellow)
Toothpicks
A Kebab stick
Paintbrush
Edible glue
Wilton black colouring paste
PME blade tool
Fondant rolling pin

'Tutorial Tuesday' : How to make a sugarpaste/fondant bluebird

Step one: Take approx half of your sky blue sugarpaste and shape it into a ‘whale’ as seen above. Once happy with your shape take the Blade tool by PME and make four slices; this will create a ‘fan’ look for your bluebird’s tail.

'Tutorial Tuesday' : How to make a sugarpaste/fondant bluebird

Step two: Set your bluebird’s body to one side for the time being. Take a small amount of blue and shape them both into an oval ensuring you taper one end ever so slightly. On the tapered end make two incisions to create the feathers on your bluebird’s wings.

'Tutorial Tuesday' : How to make a sugarpaste/fondant bluebird

Step three: Take the white sugarpaste and roll it out using the small rolling pin by PME. Using the blade tool by PME cut a rough circle out. Discard the remaining white sugarpaste and begin working around the circle with the blade tool to ‘feather’ the bluebird’s chest. Using the edible glue by Squires Kitchen now attach your bluebird’s chest in place.

'Tutorial Tuesday' : How to make a sugarpaste/fondant bluebird

Step four: Using the remaining sky blue sugarpaste roll a ball and set it to one side. Gently push a cocktail stick behind the white chest of your bluebird ensuring you adjust it according to your bluebird’s height. Put a small amount of edible glue by Squires Kitchen around the cocktail stick and gently slide the head in place. Attach the wings using a small amount of edible glue spread evenly with a paintbrush.

'Tutorial Tuesday' : How to make a sugarpaste/fondant bluebird

'Tutorial Tuesday' : How to make a sugarpaste/fondant bluebird

Step five: Break off a small piece of cocktail stick and place it where you would like your bluebird’s beak. Shape a beak using the golden yellow sugarpaste and fix in place.

'Tutorial Tuesday' : How to make a sugarpaste/fondant bluebird

Step six: Using the end of the kebab stick simply dip it into the black colouring by Wilton and dot two eyes in place to complete your bluebird’s lovely little face.

If you have followed this tutorial now you will have your very own little bluebird! We would love to see what variations you can come up with by adjusting colour, shape and size.

 

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