Cake fail

I feel so much better about the wedding cake I made for DD Considering that she only gave us a month to organise the whole wedding it didn't look too bad at all - just a bit wobbly on the piping.

I went to a wedding with a fruit cake which was very under cooked so the mixture was liquid. I felt so sorry. The cook worked in a hotel and it was a present!!

All very informal as the bride and groom still had their wet washing on the radiators!

I think simple is the way to go Nonnie, fondant icing is very compliant when you need a flat finish, then embellish with something beautiful - flowers, ribbon, shapes cut from more fondant in another colour. I made my son and daughter in law's wedding cake, plain white decorated with calla lilies the same as the brides bouquet, it turned out well (thank heavens!)

I started with Royal Icing and always had to end up with snowstorms as I couldn't get the blessed stuff flat!

How awful! I suppose at least they had a cake - I can just imagine some poor inept person trying to fulfil an order because someone has let them down.

My GCs love my terrible attempts at birthday cakes. They tell me what they want and I do my best, unfortunately what they want is sometimes very complicated! I would never do a wedding cake unless the bride and groom knew how amateur I am. It would have to be very plain!

Oh dear!

Cake decorating is not as easy as it looks, but these are shockingly bad.

There is a link folks. I could not see at first and was puzzling about it.

About my standard, I would say. But then, I would never attempt a wedding cake. It isn't as easy as it looks!