Very Simple Wedding Cake

I made this very simple wedding cake for a bride who wanted something very simple for her outdoor wedding. She didn’t want anything large or over-the-top. What she did want was chocolate cake, covered in chocolate fondant (my kind of woman). The bridesmaids wore indigo blue dresses so the flowers had to be very small (per the bride’s orders) but also needed to match the dresses. She had no topper in mind at all and understated was her main objective.

This cake was three tiers but was only to serve about 50. Each tier was two layers of chocolate cake in 8″, 6″ and 4″. The cakes were baked and dirty iced in white butter cream frosting. If you’ve ever made chocolate fondant, you know it is very difficult because cocoa dries everything out. I spent hours trying to get the right chocolate marshmallow fondant to work before I gave up. I found some Smores flavored marshmallows at the store that were half brown and I used those, dyed them a light brown to get the desired colored and then was able to make fondant that was both a pretty brown shade and workable. They also did have a slight chocolate taste, as the bride requested.

Each layer was covered with this fondant and then because of the cardboard I had placed under each layer, I needed to “hide” the gaps, so I made the same color of brown ribbon and put that around that bottom. Since this experience, I have learned to put the cardboard support on the cake before you cover it in fondant so there are no “gaps.” I then rolled out white fondant beads to go around the edges of the cake.

The flowers were made from fondant as well. They were made from the smallest flower shaped cutters in the Wilton set. I stuck on edible white beads in the middle of each flower. Because we stuck a dowel rod through the entire cake, there was a hole in the top layer that had to be hidden. My sister came up with a solution that really made the cake. She took the largest flower cutter in the Wilton set and made layers until she had one large flower. She then cut out a white circle to place the flower on top so that it covered all the imperfections. It was an easy solution that was also a great finishing touch.

This cake stood about 12″ high and was fairly small but still needed supports so each layer had a few dowel rods inside that held up cardboard circles. One dowel rod went through the entire cake. This kept it was leaning or caving in due to weight. In the end, I was really happy with the cake and fortunately, so was the bride!

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