Garden Flowers, Button, Bow, and Brooch Cupcake Toppers

I am so excited and ready to share these adorable little cupcake toppers with you! I had so much fun making them and know they will look wonderful at the Vintage Tea Party Bridal Shower that they're headed too.

I was asked to make bow, button, and flower toppers in pinks, purples, and cream. I am beyond pleased with the final result :)

My very favorite thing is the edible chocolate/candy melt cameo brooches! Look! They're actually tasty and beyond adorable! I am so obsessed with them...I cannot wait to use this candy mold to make a million different colored brooches! :)

I made a tutorial that shows step by step instructions on how to make them as well. Here: http://sherilynncakes.blogspot.com/2014/06/edible-cameo-brooches.html?m=1

I added some small fondant flowers to the bottoms of these brooches, to add a little color and also to help them tie into the other decorations - which were all fondant.

I also used the Wilton Silicone Button Mold to make these ADORABLE little buttons!!! They came out well, but they looked even better after I covered them in a little shimmery pearl dust.

I made a variety of little bows as well, and covered them in a shimmery pearl dust.

Since this was a vintage garden tea party, we thought a few little roses and flowers would help tie that theme in. I added a few leaves to make it look a little more realistic. They are a little longer than I would normally make them, but that was so you could really poke them down into the frosting. They also got a light dusting of pearl dust.

This is what it looked like all ready to go to the bridal shower, wrapped up in the box (just needs the next layer, with the roses and leaves).
They looked great together, despite being very different items. Very aclectic and lovely. Perfect for a Vintage Garden Tea Party Bridal Shower :)

Purple Lace Cupcakes

I recently had the pleasure of spending a few months working with a wonderful bride on a fun alternative to a wedding cake - a beautiful cupcake tower with a small cake for their cutting ceremony. 

She wanted purple frosting with silver dragees of various sizes on her cupcakes, with silver papers and a delicate, white, shimmery cupcake wrapper around each one.

The cake on the top was covered with marshmallow fondant and sprayed with food coloring until it was a nice shimmery silver (to match the cupcake papers). I used royal icing on top of the fondant in a technique called "Brush Embroidery" to create the flower pattern on top.

She also wanted peonies and small purple flowers in place of a topper. I created the flowers out of gum paste and floral wire over a week before to make sure they had enough time to dry.

Overall it was a stunning display and it really had some major impact when placed in such a gorgeous venue. 

I had such a wonderful time working with this bride and feel so privileged to be part of her special day! <3 Congratulations to the newlyweds!

White Wedding Cake with Royal Blue Ribbon

This week I had the wonderful privilege of making my life long friend's wedding cake <3

She was having a 4th of July, beach wedding. She had picked a very simple color palette, of just navy and white, and explained the the overall theme/style as "simple" as well. So I didn't want a lot of embellishments, details, etc on the cake (which I found surprisingly hard to  edit myself for this one, I wanted to add shimmer/glitter, flowers...then more flowers, edible diamonds, etc)

I went with this very basic/rustic white butter cream cake, with two layers of a strawberry orange cake and one layer of chocolate (6in, 8in, 10in). I added a simple fondant ribbon along the bottom - in the same color as the ribbon on her wedding dress. And finished it with a little butter cream pearl border.  

Once it was all set up and ready to go I added the finishing touch - a custom made wedding topper to celebrate the new couple <3

We were very happy that it did not melt and made it to the beach in one piece (with the 3hr drive and 80deg temperatures). I feel so honored to have be part of such a special day! <3