Welcome to #MadeItMonday, where I post something I’ve made in the previous week, and where you can join in and post something you made too! The rules are easy: post a pic somewhere of something you’ve made in the last week (ish; let’s say in the last month as the hard-and-fast) and tag it. Sit back and enjoy scrolling through all the beautiful things we’ve collectively created, and celebrate the fact that humans can be awesome!
Yay, another cake! I agreed to do this wedding cake for friends last year, before I knew what my schedule was going to be. Turns out it wasn’t a great week to be doing cake – we were out of town last weekend, and this week I had parent-teacher interviews on Thursday night, plus it was a Friday wedding, so it had to be ready to go before I left for work at 7:30am on Friday. Which… the bride wanted flowers on the cake. IDK how much experience you have with flowers on cakes, but generally speaking they aren’t in water, so lasting hours and hours out of water means you have to be very careful about which flowers you use.
Luckily for me, the wedding was themed mostly around native flowers, which generally speaking do really well out of water. So, from the inspo pics I was sent, I chose to go with sea holly and billy buttons, with gum leaves for the greenery. Surprisingly, it was the gum leaves that dried out the fastest! (The billy buttons were dried already, so that was easy :D)
There was a minor hiccup partway through as I tried to figure out how to balance the flowers – usually I have one or two large flowers to use as centrepieces, and the rest of the design spirals out from that. But this time, I didn’t have a single ‘centrepiece’, so I had to get my design-thinking on a little bit more! 😀 Thankfully, my darling husband had decided to stay up and keep me company, and was able to help me figure out the balance I needed.
And so, without further ado, cake!
This is a base layer of banana mud cake with cheesecake filling, with a top layer of white chocolate mud cake filled with white chocolate buttercream (which, fyi, is amazing – the buttercream tastes just like a rich, thick, silky melted white gourmet chocolate :3).
Oh, and PS: the *good* photos above were taken by my amazing sister. The less good ones were taken by me 😉
And now, what have you made this week? Don’t forget to tag your contribution, or even better, leave a link in the comments!! I love seeing what inspiring things other people have made 🙂 🙂 🙂