I was so excited to be creating a Wedding Cupcake Tower for Melissa's wedding at the Goodwood Hotel (www.goodwood.co.uk). The bride was using beautiful red roses in her bouquet and the colour red was also included within the wedding colourscheme. After talking to Melissa about what flavour cakes she wanted and what sort of look she was after, we decided on Vanilla Cupcakes with rich Chocolate Frosting. To match the red roses in her bouquet I made handmade fondant roses, each with a small leaf to put on the top of each cupcake.
I had to make 80 roses for the large Cupcakes and 20 rosebuds for the mini Cupcakes, plus 100 leaves! I worked out that if I made 12 roses per night, two weeks before the wedding I would have them finished before baking began!
Once I had baked the cupcakes, I had a dummy run to see how I would set up the cupcakes on the tower and then frosting began. Now the day of baking and frosting was a really hot day and it was a real challenge getting the frosting on the cupcakes before the butter started separating from the chocolate!
Phew, Cupcakes frosted and decorated and now just needed to be transported. Myself and my lovely ma packed them up and drove very carefully to the hotel! We set up the tower and arranged the cupcakes, which all looked beautiful. I had taken some fresh red roses and arranged them on the top tier and then sprinkled red petals around the base of the tower.........
Et Voila!........
