I decided that this week I would do a tribute to Martha rather than one of her projects. I had a wedding this last weekend that I made the cake top for them. They had such a large wedding that they decided to just go with cup cakes and then a cake top to cut for the traditional part of the reception. I am not a professional cake maker, but I love a challenge, so since they were going to make it themselves I asked to make it for them as a gift. I watched some great video's on YouTube and came up with a pretty decent cake. Here is how and what I did. After baking each cake I made a small outline of frosting to help keep the filling from squishing out. After stacking and making sure they were straight, I put a first thin layer of frosting called a crumb coat. Once this was dry I put the full layer of butter cream on. I had never done a butter cream before so it took a lot of trial and error to figure out how to smooth the frosting. Once I was done with that I put the cake on it's foam round and piped on some flowers (I practiced on a plate first) then added a sugar bead on each flower. The cake was topped off with the bride's grandparents 60-year-old cake top and a few hydrangea's. By my standard it was not perfect, but they loved it and I really enjoyed the process. I think, if given the chance, I would like to do it again, but this time with fondant. I have worked with fondant before and enjoy how nice and smooth it is.
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