Rose and Fuchsia Wedding Cupcake & Cake Tower!

Here’s a lovely and sweet cupcake tower topped with a floral adorned cake that we created for a late spring wedding. A sumptuous and over-hanging bouquet of ivory roses and lilac fuchsia flowers were requested. We also whipped up a large batch of matching cupcakes in some pretty mouth-watering flavours; Mango & Passion Fruit, Red Velvet, Lemonade and Raspberry!

Sweet rose and fuchsia cupcake and cake wedding tower by Juniper Cakery

 The cake itself was a lovely and moist vanilla sponge filled with delicious strawberry jam and iced with vanilla fondant. We then embossed an ivory fondant covered cake drum with a pretty lace mould, trimmed the board with grosgrain ribbon and once we placed the cake on top it was finished with royal icing polka dots, a royal icing pearl border and handmade sugar flowers!

Beautiful rose and fuchsia cupcake and cake wedding tower by Juniper Cakery

The bouquet is made of 7 ivory roses, 9 fuchsia buds, 9 small fantasy berries, 9 fuchsia leaves, 8 rose leaves and 10 fuchsia flowers all made from scratch by our hard-working hands and from custom coloured gum paste!

Rose and fuchsia wedding cupcakes and cake by Juniper Cakery

To accompany the cake the wedding tower was completed with 100 cupcakes. We baked them all fresh and from scratch before filling the Lemonade cupcakes with home-made lemon curd and the Raspberry cupcakes with home-made raspberry confiture! For the Mango and Passion Fruit cupcakes we frosted them with a lovely two toned swirl; lilac for the passion fruit flavour and ivory for the mango flavour!

Rose cupcakes for a wedding by Juniper Cakery

 

 

Gold & Purple Ranunculus Wedding Cake!

We created this stunning golden four tier ranunculus wedding cake earlier this week. It’s adorned with a mix of handmade fantasy gold and white berries, pale elderberries, bramble berries and bramble leaves as well as violet, lavender, white & ‘picotee pink’ ranunculus flowers. A must for this cake was that it incorporated an autumnal theme. For this we took brighter and bolder colours (purple, dark pink and gold) popular in fashion for autumn/winter collections. We then teamed them with white, ivory and pops of fresh greens to keep them from being obvious autumn hues.

Beautiful gold ranunculus wedding cake by Juniper Cakery

Amazing gold and purple ranunculus wedding cake by Juniper Cakery

Gorgeous bright ranunculus flower wedding cake by Juniper Cakery

Beautiful gold and purple ranunculus wedding cake by Juniper Cakery

The largest tier was covered in individually cut ‘sequins’ of ochre coloured fondant before being hand painted in edible gold lustre paint (lustre dust mixed with a few drops of either lemon juice or vodka) a few times. Despite it taking a back-breaking 10+ hours to complete it’s such a fantastic technique that evokes a gorgeous luxury look to any cake!

Stunning gold, pink and purple ranunculus wedding cake by Juniper Cakery

Lovely gold, pink and purple ranunculus cake by Juniper Cakery

The second largest tier at 12 inches in diameter was iced in ivory fondant before we added matching ornate ‘frames’ around the cake. We love how these mouldings as a beautiful antique feel to the cake.

The second smallest tier was dry painted with edible metallic gold and bronze paint to create a an extra element of texture as well as add more luxurious gold!

Detail of ranunculus wedding cake by Juniper Cakery

Each berry and flower was hand made from gumpaste / edible modelling paste. The ranunculus (also known as persian buttercups) blossoms and blackberries all took a full 2 days to make (not including leaving the gumpaste buds to set for 4 days before hand). 

Sugar gumpaste ranunculus flowers by Juniper Cakery

Vibrant ranunculus wedding cake by Juniper Cakery

Gold and Purple ranunculus flower wedding cake by Juniper Cakery

The darker pink edged ranunculus flowers were hand painted using a dry brush technique to add the lovely ‘streaks’ of deep fuchsia around and along each petal.

Lovely purple ranunculus cake by Juniper Cakery

Finally, the top tier was covered in a mustard coloured fondant before we painted it with edible metallic gold paint. The use of mustards and gold tones help set off the purples and and dark pinks of the ranunculus blossoms; of course they  incorporate a lovely touch of glamour to the wedding cake.

 

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