Tuesday, August 17, 2010

Petalsweet Preparing for ICES Part III

Hello everyone! Here is the final installment about the display cake I made for the ICES Convention 2010. I certainly appreciate everyone who has been reading and following along...thank you for your patience and encouragement! I hope you like the cake!

In my last post, I left off with photos of all of the flowers in different stages of being finished:



Stacked tiers covered with chocolate fondant... the sizes were 4 - 6 - 8 - 10 - 14 inches in diameter and most were 4 inches tall. The 8 inch tier was 5 inches tall:



Dusted hydrangea flowers and buds:



All of the flowers organized and close at hand on the day I made the cake topper and smaller arrangements. Ranunculus, peonies, hydrangea, freesia, filler flowers and lots of little buds and leaves:



Half of a Styrofoam ball that was used as the base for the topper:



The topper in progress...most of the larger flowers were in place and I was starting to add filler flowers and buds:



The completed topper with all of the flowers:



And here the leaves have been added to the base of the bouquet. The topper is almost 9 inches across:



I used my favorite chocolate brown/white stitching grosgrain ribbon around the base of all of the tiers. The original design sketch had green ribbon with white edging...but in the end, the additional color of that ribbon competed with all of the flowers, so I went with a more tailored and subtle choice...and I actually like it much better!



Keeping the back of the cake as neat and tidy as possible...with the exception of a few smudges:



The small arrangement for the cake:



The large arrangement for the bottom tier:



And at last...the completed cake design:



And a second view from the top so you can see more detail in the topper:



Again many, many thanks for stopping by, and for all of your wonderful comments and good wishes! And now that the convention is over...it's back to work on more flowers and some new designs...coming soon!

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Thursday, August 5, 2010

Petalsweet Preparing for ICES Part II

The ICES Convention is about a week away now, and I am just about finished with all of the prep work for my display cake. I need to complete my peony flowers and buds, and will be dusting my freesia and hydrangea flowers today and tomorrow...and hopefully it will all be done just in time to create the floral topper and arrangements this weekend. Here are a few more photos from this past week!

Yellow ranunculus flowers:



The flower prep so far without the peonies and freesia:



Getting ready to dust the leaves:



Dusted hydrangea leaves:



Glazed hydrangea, peony and gardenia leaves:



Styrofoam order from last week...and somewhere in there are the specific tiers I decided to use for my display cake:



...and they have already been covered with fondant, and are ready to be stacked and decorated with the final elements of my design! I'm keeping things pretty simple to balance the tiers and the flowers...and I'm looking forward to having it all come together!

More photos coming soon...thanks for stopping by!

Copyright © 2010 by Jacqueline Butler of Petalsweet Cakes. Content of this blog (including text, photographs and layout) is the property of Jacqueline Butler - please respect copyright laws. If you want to link to my blog, or post any of my photos, please contact me - it would be great to have the opportunity to connect with you. Thank you!
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