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20th September 2017 // 3 Comments

Gold Sequin Drip Wedding Cake with Bright Florals!

Anyone who knows us will know that we love anything with a ‘natural glamour’ feel to it. Eye-catching florals, luxurious metallics and a little touch of something wild and untamed. This cake, and it’s gorgeous styled set-up, definitely encompasses all of those things! Obviously, we’re huge fans of a gold sequin drip wedding cake too.

Glamorous rustic gold sequin drip wedding cake!

We created this rustic buttercream cake for the lovely Katie and Chris’ big day! Two very tall tiers (around 7″ deep) finished with a messy white buttercream effect, glam gold sequin drip and a touch of 24k gold leaf! The deep bottom tier was in the couple’s favourite flavour… Coconut and lemon; fluffy Madagascan vanilla cake filled with our Sicilian lemon curd and creamy coconut infused buttercream. For a fun surprise the top tier was a bright rainbow cake with red, yellow, green and purple layers filled with our popular Taittinger champagne and strawberry preserve and vanilla bean buttercream!

How gorgeous are these flowers supplied by the wonderful Forage and Blossom? We fell in love with the teeny tiny peach roses. We dressed the cake with it’s pretty blooms, fresh macarons and sweet meringue kisses at the venue, which was fun. It’s great to work in the finished setting. Usually, we like to finalise everything before delivery and then do a few small adjustments. It was amazing to see the gorgeous marquee set up at the bride’s family home and finish the cake surrounded by a bright fresh floral adorned vintage dressing table!

Katie and Chris opted for our freshly made macarons and meringue kisses too! Macarons are perfect on a gold sequin drip wedding cake! Flavours included our popular Golden Salted Caramel flavour studded with glistening edible sequins filled with our homemade salted caramel sauce. The pretty white macarons feature a luxuriously fun gold splatter and a Vanilla and White Chocolate truffle ganache filling.

We loved the gold mirror topper the couple found for their wedding too! It works perfectly with the golden hints on the cake. We nestled it off to the side so it balanced out the top tier decorations and that pretty gold sequin drip. We also added in a white candy melt ‘sail’ perched behind the florals alongside the gold topper. That added a nice bit of height and drama without taking away focus from the roses and foliage!

We hope Katie and Chris enjoyed an amazing day! We love delivering and setting up every cake, but this was such a gorgeous marquee wedding! Lots of thanks to Forage and Blossom flowers and Eden & Eve wedding planning too for the stunning florals and set up!

10th January 2017 // 0 Comments

We’ve Been Shortlisted in The UK Wedding Awards 2017!

What an amazing start to our year! We just found out that we’ve been shortlisted in the The UK Wedding Awards 2017! Best Wedding Cake Company category! How fabulous is that? We’re so excited to make the final list. We work incredibly hard on everything we design and create from dainty macaron favours to towering wedding centrepieces. Plus we LOVE what we do so it’s incredibly honouring to be nominated! Vote for Juniper Cakery here!

Anyway, because of this we thought we’d re-cap on some of the gorgeous wedding cakes we’ve created. Rococo adorned tiers, carefree naked and semi-naked cakes and glamorous modern designs.

This cake is a firm favourite. It also inspired our branding and logo! This four tiered beauty was created for a lovely couple who weren’t quite sure what they wanted from their wedding cake. BUT they had the most on-trend venue styling! We took details from their golden table runners, romantic colour palette, etc. The bottom tier features soft pink ruffled fondant. The rest of the cake is studded with gold edible sequins that topple down from the top. Three huge blush pink sugar peonies adorn the top with snowberries and peony leaves.

We’ve been shortlisted!

Another definite favourite. We love the movement and light feeling of this rustic yet glam design. Our signature open peonies are our most requested sugar flower and this time we created them in a lovely white. They were then surrounded with blossoms, blackberries and seeded eucalyptus leaves we created. We also incorporated a bit of cake trend in the form of a subtle black chalkboard tier nestled between all the ruffles and florals!

Here’s one pretty in pink Rococo-inspired design. All tiers are a light ice pink that feature a golden acanthus leaf edged frame. We added small details to the frame in the form of tiny gilded bees too. Perched onto the edges of two tiers are sugar peonies surrounded by pale berries, white blossoms and sugar hydrangeas. For extra height we then added a silk bridal tulle to the very tip held in place with delicate sugar flowers.

This beautiful floral crown-inspired design was created for a couple marrying at the gorgeous Wrea Head Hall! All three bright white tiers were hand piped with tiny shimmering pearls that gradually clustered towards the top of the cake. The entire cake was then assembled on top of a false base in order for the all the sugar flowers to burst from underneath! Florals included… blush pink peonies with silver painted pistil centres and lavender hydrangeas. We also crafted Brunia berries, white ranunculus blooms, large white roses (to represent Yorkshire) and silver fern leaves (to represent New Zealand)!

The UK Wedding Awards 2017!

This was one amazingly fragrant wedding cake! It was made for a fun-loving couple who absolutely loved anything cherry flavoured. Our brief was… anything with cherries, bright pink, semi-naked style and to surprise them on the big day! We ended up creating a vibrant Black Forest Gateau inspired cake with extra tall tiers. We smoothed a bright pink kirsch inspired buttercream around each tier. It was then adorned with fresh cherries, rosemary sprigs, pink roses, rose leaves and cherry inspired macarons (Sour Cherry and Cherry Ripple).

We loved this elegant wedding cake and really did not want to let it go! Created for a couple whose palette was white, gold and dark green. Its three tiers were extended with a separator full of gilded sugar Dogwood blossoms, dark hunter green leaves and golden berries. Each tier was then edged with ornate Rococo-inspired acanthus leaves and ferns. To add extra height and drama our large white roses were added to the top tier. Then surrounded by wired acanthus leaves, smaller Dogwood flowers and glistening fondant berries.

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Naked cakes are still hugely popular when it comes to weddings! We created this rose adorned design for a couple who wanted an autumnal themed cake with an orange and coral colour palette. We finished it’s bare tiers with lots of florals and fruits from large bloom roses, thyme, rosemary, rose leaves, blueberries, sliced figs, physalis berries and sprigs of lavender!

Fit for a glamorous reception this gold and white wedding cake features oversized white sugar peonies with large diamanté centres! We added a little flourish with gold painted leaves extending out from the flurry of white florals perched on top too. Gilded leaves were also added around the base of the cake to create an almost lifted cake stand effect. We built the entire design on top of a hidden base before carefully wrapping a branch of golden sugar leaves around it. We then hand-piped royal icing peonies in a gold/lace style extending from the bottom tier upwards in the centre. This design took hours upon hours to finish from the sketch after sketch with various amendments, large handmade individually wired sugar peonies, multiple gold leaves and the intricate piped lacework.

28th April 2016 // 0 Comments

Our Exclusive Interview in Wedding Cakes Magazine!

We’re (almost) famous! We’ve ooh-ed and ahh-ed at the wonderful designs that featured in the amazing Wedding Cakes magazine for some time. Now not only have we’ve found our own work adorning their glossy pages, but we’re lucky enough to have been interviewed and featured in their ‘Meet the Designer’ spread! On our blog, in consultations and even on social media we’ve briefly mentioned our backgrounds, but if you’re super nosey about how we started then this interview may hopefully be a good read! In the beginning both our future careers involved dusty lecture halls and endless thesis proposals before we found ourselves almost permanently covered in icing sugar a few years later. Yep, Juniper Cakery was born out of a nervous tick we both developed whilst trying to find the perfect Masters degrees.

Over a year later and we STILL love this peony ruffle wedding cake. It was inspired by a couple’s (excellent) choice of gold sequin table runners and floral centrepieces. After going through graphic designers and brand consultants we just didn’t gel with we ended up re-designing and re-branding our business by ourselves with this glamorous cake as our main source of inspiration. The gold sequins = celebration and (of course) champagne bubbles… obviously the perfect accompaniments for cake. Our new branding colours then centred around pink, white and gold.

One of the best things about this cake is the movement. After sketching it and then staring at the end cake for some time we realised that it looked like ruffled gown bedecked with nature - a bit like a Pre-Raphaelite muse really. Fondant ruffles are one of our favourite design elements to include on any cake and we receive a lot of compliments and even class requests for it. We learned how to do ours the Maggie Austin way at first, but her top secret trick terrified us so we developed our own method to get the best super textured look.

This two tiered beauty was one cherry explosion! The smell was insanely tempting as it was a chocolate cake filled with Morello cherry preserve, smoothed with Kirsch infused buttercream and then adorned with fresh roses, juicy cherries and cherry flavoured macarons (Cherry Ripple and Sour Cherry).

We turned a simple and petite design into a mini show-stopper with a floral crown of gardenias, sweet peas, 24k gold bees, tulips and ‘Juliet’ roses wrapped around the base of royal icing pearl studded cake. We loved adding in those gold painted berries, bees and also the swirls of sweet pea tendrils!

This naked cake was made super glam with 24k gold dusted peanut butter macarons, gold silk eucalyptus leaves, pink macarons and large blooming bubblegum pink roses.

If you’re on the hunt for Wedding Cakes magazine you can find it on the magazine shelves of most good supermarkets or book stores in the UK. You can also order a copy from the Squires Kitchen website or even via iTunes!

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