A Magnolia Flower Wedding Cake

A beautiful three-tiered magnolia themed wedding cake.  This cake was another one of those "all-nighter" cakes.  The reason = magnolia flowers.  Another reason = we NEVER freeze our cakes - a large part of our success is the quality and freshness we offer, so we alway maintain a strict policy of delivering high quality products that are always fresh.  Oh, and another reason.... we don't have any employees!  So we bake and decorate everything ourselves!  That is a huge reason in itself, I laugh as I post this....  An 'oh yeah' moment...  We are a small business, that is probably an understatement!  However, I do feel strongly about our commitment to quality.  When the owners are the ones putting out the products, the bar is set way high.  We hold ourselves acccountable to our own expectations, every product we sell is our name and reputation on the line.  Our family, our children, our financial future, this is the passion that drives us.  I'll stop here, I believe I am rambling...

Anyway, back to this cake - Magnolias are sooo exquisitely beautiful.  I love them.  I love making them also, but they are (in my opinion) one of the most challenging flowers to make.  I am in no way a traditional baker or cake decorator, so a large part of the challenge lies in making sugar flowers and cakes that are 100% edible.  I do not, nor have I ever used floral wire, or floral tape in decorating my cakes.  The idea of children pulling a petal or flower off of a cake always enters my mind.  I'm a pediatric nurse, if I haven't mentioned that in any previous posts.  So safety always concerns me and anyway, cake and wires.... Just doesn't feel right. (I'm sure I just offended a professional cake decorator somewhere - if so, I apologize...)

I especially loved the topper we made for this cake.  The young bride and groom requested their initials painted into one of the flower toppers.  A brilliant and elegant idea.  Here is a picture of the top portion of the cake:

                                                  Congratulations Elizabeth and Steven!!
                                             We wish you a lifetime of joy and happiness!