Tiers of Joy

Congratulations, Rebecca and Tony! They got married yesterday and lucky for us they wanted a Superfine cake! This one is lemon cake throughout with vanilla bean icing. The exterior is our housemade white chocolate fondant and it's decorated with over 500 sugar flowers in graduated shades of orange.

For this cake we zested and juiced 30 lemons, colored, cut, sculpted and shaded the flowers from gumpaste, and baked the cake you see above plus a sheet cake decorated with flowers just in case they needed a few extra pieces.

The wedding was held in a stunningly landscaped acreage of a large family-owned Pasadena home. The decor was gorgeous, and the wedding was catered by famed Pasadena caterers Simply Elegant, so the food was guaranteed to be good.

As you might have noticed, the web site is now live! I'm so happy it's done -- this cake will be the 6th in the Gallery section and I can't wait to get it up and live. Soon, soon. :)