Wedding cake and candies

And on to my last two projects in Term 3!  My wedding cake was a lot of work, but I actually really enjoyed making it!  With more time, I probably would have kept working at it, but for my first big cake with all kinds of new mediums to work with, I really enjoyed it!

And onto the pictures!

This is the purple fondant that I originally colored.  A nice bright, vibrant purple.

This base shows the original fondant color with the color on the sides, which have faded.  A lot.  :)  But it is okay, it still works.

Since I flipped my cake upside down,  These are the flowers that were "squashed" when the cake "fell".

This picture was supposed to better show how the drop lace is hanging away from the cake, but not by much.  You can kiiinda see it, but not quite so well.

This is Dan, checking out my upside down cake.

We had specific requirements for the cake, but the design was all ours as long as it incorporated then specifications.  We had to have a band of some sort along the base of all layers (mine is the pink band/ribbon), we had to have drop lace on at least one tier (mine is on all three tiers on the pink band), and we had to have at least 5 flowers (mine are supposed to be lily of the valley and I have at least 6 on each tier).

A view from below.

Ta da!  And here is the full picture of the cake!  Each layer is off-set to make it seem as if the cake fell off of a table and that is how it landed.  I decorated each layer as if I was building the cake the correct way with the larger layer on the bottom, so that all the decorations would look as if they really belonged (eg. the drop lace hanging the "correct" way before I flipped it).

After the wedding cake, our last project in Term 3 was the candy platter.  We had to make 10 different types of candy and put 6 of them on our platters.  60 candies, just for the platters!  And there were plenty extra too!  

In the picture, on the middle left, the brown round candies are curry truffles, and the white inside is nougat.  Looking at the large number 6 type shape, starting in the right corner, the dark hearts with white lines in it are dark chocolate candies filled with peppermint fondant, next are milk chocolate candies filled with Grand Marnier ganache, next are milk chocolate candies filled with soft caramel, and the end curve of the 6 are chocolate caramels.  In the middle of the 6 is peanut brittle.  Below the bottom of the 6 are blackberry sour jellies (like sour patch kids), and to the right of the 6 at the top are cashews, pine nuts, peanuts nut clusters coated in white chocolate and drizzled with dark chocolate, and below those are pralines.

Yummy!