Sugar roses, oh my!

Hello Everyone:

Ever wondered how much time it would take to make 435 sugar roses? Two and a half weeks. Each rose, hand done on this cake was made to match the bride's wedding color. I must say it was a spectacular event. The cake serve over 350 people. The bottom tier itself is an 18 inch square. The cake weighed 140 pounds. The size of a small human being. The event was held on the family's property just outside of Franklin, Tennessee at the end of June, 2010. Absolutely stunning event.

This cake is a buttercream cake (below) that went to the Hermitage Golf Course (http://www.hermitagegolf.com/), in Old Hickory, Tennessee. The event was a One Source Weddings (http://www.onesourceweddings.net)event/ spear headed by Wendy Binns. The cake has satin ribbon around the base of each tier that matched the bride's turquoise color and a light taupe color icing accent touched with edible glitter. The topper is fresh flowers supplied by One Source Weddings.

The buttercream cake (below) is also a One Source Wedding (http://www.onesourceweddings.net/) event held in Lebanon at The Mill (http://www.themillatlebanon.com/). The colors from her wedding are reflected in the ribbons around the base of each tier. The buttercream is deliberately not smooth to pick up the rustic elements in the hall. Fresh flowers were applied at a later time by One Source.

This lovely fondant cake (below) is embossed with swirls painted pearl on the bottom and 2nd tier from the top. The alternating tiers have a white filigree touched with edible glitter and small tweedia sugar flowers. The sugar flowers on the cake matched her fresh flowers...they are small blue tweedia (the bride's favorite) and white mums. The event was held at The Spring Hill Union Hall in Spring Hill, Tennessee (uawlocal1853.org/union-hall).

Thank you everyone for viewing, tell your friends to come visit also.

~Stacy and The French Confection Team

Cakes from August 15th Weekend

AUGUST 15TH EVENTS

1) It was so wonderful to work with the Fernandez family on the wedding and groom's cakes that were delivered to the Frist Center on August 15th, 2009. (Photo to left)

The wedding cake was based on the design from the bride's wedding dress right down to the sparkly flower designs on the sides of the wedding cake.

The groom's cake was books arranged as if stacked on a shelf with the two bookends being drums. The bass drum has the name of the groom's band on it "Sutures". The names on the spines of the books were suggested by the groom. This photo will be in another blog.

For this event: the flowers were by A Village of Flowers, the band was The Blue Tones and The Coordinator was Alice Hendry.

2) The photo to the right is a birthday party for Judy McCabe held at The Timothy Demonbreun house also on the August 15th weekend.

We won't say what number of birthday Judy was celebrating....but she sure didn't look her age.

It was such a pleasure to work with her on this very special day.

The style of the cake has white filigree lightly touched with silver. Each tier is separated for fresh flowers.

FAVORITE EVENTS AND CAKES

Since this is our very first blog, we have decided to include some of our favorite cakes from the past.

This cake is a groom's cake for an avid tennis player -A Louis Vittan Tennis Bag.

Everything is edible except the bottom portion of the racket and the strings of the racket.

The wedding cake to the right is a cake with a beach theme including handmade sugar sea shells and sugar tropical flowers....and.... a sugar Corona Bottle.

With ...yes, a sugar Lime... Cooool. You are correct, that is sugar sand around the cake.

Everything on this cake is edible.

The reception was in the wonderful hands of Randi Lesnik Events. Catering by The Standard.