This pink gerbera daisy wedding cake was the first-ever cake I made using fresh pink gerberas. I love wedding cakes with fresh flowers. And when I made this gerbera wedding cake, I must say, I was truly happy with the way the cake turned out.
I did not have any specific design in mind when I was decorating this cake. It just came with the flow. That might sound a little off, but the truth is, this was one of the few cakes I designed all at one go with fresh flowers.
Pink Gerbera Daisy Wedding Cake
Long story short, I purchased a whole bunch of roses and gerbera daisies during one of my trips to a local highland holiday destination. One of the main attractions of the highlands is their fresh flower farms. Not only were there so many pretty flowers, they were cheap too. The most commons ones were roses and gerberas. They also had lots of orchids and chrysanthemums and carnations but the ones that really caught my attention were the roses and gerbera flowers. These were so irresistible, so I ended up buying quite a lot of the roses and gerbera daisies and since we drove up the highlands, I was able to bring back quite a lot of them.
Once back home, I set of designing my cakes. Since the cakes were not designed for anyone, I used Styrofoam dummies instead of real cakes and I covered them all in white fondant. I used them interchangeably in designing and photographing my collection of fresh flower wedding cakes.
Making a Gerbera Daisy Wedding Cake with Fresh Flowers
The daisy wedding cake I have on this page was designed with pink gerberas. This is a simple 2 tier cake that was pretty easy to put together. The only rather exclusive point about this pink gerbera daisy wedding cake is the way the cake tiers were positioned. If you notice, while the bottom tier of the cake is centered on the cake board, the top, on the other hand, was not centered on the bottom tier. This was done on purpose and the top was intentionally pushed right to the end of the back corner of the bottom cake. And also, instead of the flat sides of the cake being the front, back, and sides of the cake, this cake had all its pointed corners as the front, back, and sides of the cake.
The other point about this pink gerbera daisy wedding cake is that since it was decorated using fresh flowers, you need to know is how to secure them to the cake so that they don’t move or fall off when transporting the cake. What I normally do is arrange them on the cake before transporting and snap photos of the arrangement. I then disassemble the floral arrangement and rearrange them in the same order as in my photographs once I reach the wedding venue. That way, I need not secure the flowers to my cake, thus saving me the time in securing them to the cake. If you are not comfortable with this option, you can always secure them to the cake before transporting.
How to Make a Pink Gerbera Daisy Wedding Cake
These were the main supplies I used to decorate this square wedding cake with fresh pink gerbera daisies:
- Cake dummies – I used 4 inches high square dummies measuring 6 inches and 9 inches each.
- Fondant – I used white Satin Ice fondant to cover the cake dummies.
- Pink gerbera daisies (fresh flowers) – I used a total of 5 pink daisy flowers for this cake.
- Satin ribbon – I used 1-inch wide satin ribbon in green as the border for the cake.
- Royal icing
- Disposable piping bags and Wilton round tip number 3 .
- Fondant glue
And this was how I put the cake together:
Preparing the cake
- I designed this cake with Styrofoam dummies. And so I did not need to crumb coat them before covering them with fondant. I have a full tutorial on how to cover Styrofoam dummies with fondant and you can read the step by step guide here.
- If you are intending to create this design with real cake, you can refer to any of my recipes on my recipes page here and follow the measurement I have provided for 6 inches and 9 inches square cakes. Once your cakes are baked, level them, fill them with buttercream and crumb coat also with buttercream before covering them in fondant.
Support for the tiers
- For dummy cakes, you don’t need to provide any support for the bottom tier. All you need to do is simply stack the cakes on one another. For real cakes, you would need to provide the necessary support.
- For this particular design, as I have mentioned earlier, the cakes were not stacked in a centered position. If you see the image below, you will notice that while the bottom cake is placed centered on the cake board, the 2nd tier is not. In fact, it is positioned towards the back end of the bottom tier.
Pink Gerbera Daisy Wedding Cake
- So, again, if you are going to do this with a real cake, make sure to take note of the top cake position on the bottom tier when doweling your cake for stacking. Otherwise, you will end up with some of the dowels being visible at the front of the cake after stacking.
Satin ribbon border
- Once the cakes were stacked, I attached the satin ribbon as the border. To secure the ribbon to the cake, I used fondant glue.
The bead polka dots
- Next to go onto the wedding cake were the royal icing polka dots. I piped these freehand with a round tip number 3. Since this was a square cake, it was easier to estimate the position of the dots. Hence, I did not use any special marking or measuring tools to guide me.
Adding the pink gerbera flowers
- And finally, the fresh pink gerbera daisies went on the cake. I arranged 3 gerberas on the top for the cake topper. And then I added one flower each to the base of the front corner of each cake tier. To hold them in place, I merely lifted the tiers and pushed the stalks underneath each. If you are doing this on a real cake, you would need to wrap the stalks first. You can do it with cling wrap or foil. Alternatively, you can also insert wires into the stalks. After that, push them into a straw and then push the flowers into the cake.
And that is pretty much how I decorated this pink gerbera daisy wedding cake.
What do you think?
Pink Gerbera Daisy Wedding Cake
Happy Decorating 🙂
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