Here is a pretty wedding cake with fresh flowers (roses to be exact) I made a for a pretty couple in 2014. This was a tall cake. It made up of 3 tiers of cakes stacked on 2 sets of pillars.
Wedding cake with fresh flowers - Red & Champagne fresh roses wedding cake
I love decorating wedding cakes and totally loved decorating this one. The design of this cake was very simple. There was no elaborate piping or fondant work involved. Yet the use of fresh roses in champagne and dark red colors added so much elegance and made so much difference to the final look of the cake.
Cake on Pillars
I still remember when the bride came to see me for the cake order. Her mom and aunt followed her. And all three ladies were set on getting a wedding cake that was all real cake, set on pillars, and used fresh rose flowers.
The aunt was very set on the cake being all real cake. She did not want any part of the cake to be made of Styrofoam dummy. And the use of pillars was to give the cake the height they wanted. Since they wanted all real cake, the only way to get a tall cake without having too much cake is by supporting the cake with pillars. As for the rose flowers, they wanted the flowers on the cake to match the flowers they were going to use for the rest of the wedding deco (which were dark red and champagne roses) and so requested that I use the same flowers on the cake.
I happened to have decorated a similar wedding cake in the past. When I showed them some sample images, they immediately agreed on the design.
When I delivered this fresh flowers wedding cake to the wedding hall, I was glad the bride had chosen to have the cake stacked on pillars. It was a large wedding hall. Had the cake been a normal stacked 3 tier cake, it would have been very insignificant in the wedding hall. Overall, the cake matched the rest of the deco in the wedding hall perfectly. It looked absolutely elegant with the fresh roses bundled on each tier.
Wedding cake with fresh flowers - Red & Champagne fresh roses wedding cake
How to Make Wedding Cake with Fresh Flowers - Red and Champagne Roses
Main supplies to decorate this fresh flowers wedding cake:
- Cake – All 3 layers of the cake were baked using my orange cake recipe. The tiers were 4 inches high each and measured 6 inches, 9 inches, and 12 inches in diameter. Click here for my orange cake recipe.
- Buttercream – Each tier of the cake consisted of 2 layers of cake and I sandwiched them with vanilla buttercream. I also used buttercream to crumb coat each cake.
- Fondant – All three levels of the cake was covered in white fondant. I used my own homemade fondant recipe to make the fondant.
- Royal icing – I used royal icing to pipe the dots all around the cake. Click here for my royal icing recipe.
- Pillars and plates – I used Wilton crystal set but they are no longer available now. I used 2 of the sets for this cake. The first set which I used between the first and second-tier was with a 6 inches round separator plate. The set I used between the second and third tiers was with an 8 inches round separator plate. Each set I used consisted of 4 pillars measuring 9 inches long.
- Fresh roses – I used dark red and champagne fresh roses.
- Wilton piping tip number 3 and disposable piping bag
Wedding cake with fresh flowers - Red & Champagne fresh roses wedding cake
Assembling the wedding cake:
- Once the cakes were baked, I leveled, filled and crumb coated them with buttercream. And then I covered all in fondant.
- Since the cakes were to be placed on pillars, the cake boards I used for the top 2 cakes were in the exact same size as the cakes. This is so that the cake boards do not show once the cake is stacked.
- Once the cakes were covered in fondant, I piped tiny royal icing dots all around the cakes. After that, I piped a tiny bead border for the third tier.
Wedding cake with fresh flowers - Red & Champagne fresh roses wedding cake
- I then placed the top and second-tier cakes on their respective separator plates. These separator plates have special plugs underneath them. That sort of locks them in place so that they remain secured and stable when placed on the pillars.
- To ensure the pillars are poked in the right position on the cakes underneath, I used the separator plates as a guide to mark the positions in which to poke the pillars. To do this, for the bottom-most tier, I used the second tier separator plate as a guide. I placed the plate directly on the fondant covered bottom tier. In doing this, I made sure to position it right in the center. And then I pressed it lightly to leave slight markings on the fondant. After that, I lifted the plate and used the 4 markings made by the plugs underneath the separator plate earlier as a guide to poke my pillars.
- I used the same technique to mark the second cake tier. But this time I used the top tier separator plate as the guide.
Assembling the cake
- Another important point to mention here is that I only assembled the cake at the wedding venue. It was much safer that way, so I packed all the cakes in different boxes. And I only assembled it at the wedding venue. Since I had the markings and holes for the pillars ready, assembling the cake was quite fast. And once the cake was all stacked, I arranged the fresh roses on it. For each tier, I started with a circular row of dark red roses, followed by another row of champagne-colored roses before topping them again with deep red roses. I did this for the top and bottom tiers. For the middle one, I stared with the dark rose flowers and topped with champagne colored ones. I did not add another layer of dark red flowers as I did for the first and third tier cakes.
- For the finishing touch, I scattered some fresh rose petals on the cake board.
Wedding cake with fresh flowers - Red & Champagne fresh roses wedding cake
And that's the wedding cake with fresh flowers. If you have any queries, please leave them in the section below. I will get back to you as soon as I can.
Happy Decorating 🙂
Wedding cake with fresh flowers - Red & Champagne fresh roses wedding cake
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