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The original cake by Martha Stewart
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Daisies waiting to dry
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In the same week that this cake was due, I received an order for another 1000 dog bone biscuits, so I had to be fairly organised in my execution. My first task was to make the daisies so that they would have enough time to dry. I have no idea how many daisies I ended up making – I sat down with “The Proposal” on in the background and starting cutting. So I made daisies for as long as it took for Sandra and Ryan to almost get married by ‘Ramone’ and hoped that there would be enough. I’m guessing there were about 250 daisies.
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Stacked, covered and ready to be decorated
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I let the daisies dry for two days while I carried on with the dog bones and then set about making the cake. The cake was just a vanilla sponge with a strawberry buttercream filling (yum!) and covered in vanilla buttercream and pink fondant. I really didn’t relish the idea of having the cake starting to collapse en route to the christening so I iced each tier on its own board and used skewers in the bottom two tiers as an extra precaution.
I was very excited to start decorating the cake, although
less so when my daisies starting sliding down the sides of the cake! Once I got the royal icing consistency right,
it went fairly quickly and I was relieved that I had just enough flowers (even
after some sadly didn’t make it due to broken petals).
It didn’t turn out exactly like the yellow Martha Stewart
cake, but it was never going to. It was
good inspiration to make a new, unique cake.
And yet again, something pink and white for this blog. I think I better make something multi coloured
next time just to add some colour.
