All things Cake Based in Georgetown, SC Serving the Myrtle Beach, Georgetown and Florence areas
Friday, May 27, 2011
Tuesday, May 17, 2011
50th Birthday Cake
This was my 1st time doing a cake in silver. This was a test of my patience and confidence - but I prevailed--yay!!! A wonderful lady had her 50th birthday this past weekend and commissioned this cake. Her colors were silver and white and when I was discussing her cake with her- I had a picture of a cake that I thought was lovely and would be perfect adapted to the and colors that she wanted. This is how it turned out and I couldn't be happier.
Note on Silver-- It takes a lot of silver luster dust to create this wonderful shade of silver. I started spraying it first with chefmate silver spray--since I don't own an airbrush machine yet--soon hopefully-- and then because our local cake store didn't have anymore in stock, I had to switch to the dust. Overall thoughts are- I think the spray works better at covering large areas since the luster dust has to be painted on and you can see the brush strokes in the right light-- luckily her party was in the dark and the lines weren't visible
I was given the advice to color the fondant with a couple drops of black gel color and a couple drops of royal blue gel color. I thought it looked too gray- didn't have the shiny affect that I was looking for. Learned a lot on this cake and am ready for the next one.
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