WEDDING CAKE TINZ

There is a thrill that comes with making a wedding cake…………more, more and more! Excitement, timing, planning, shopping, baking, decorating and delivery.

We got this special order from one of our client whose son’s traditional wedding is taking place in Warri, Delta State, which is about 215 Kilometers from Port Harcourt where our bakery is located. She made this arrangement a month to the wedding and she is going to be travelling down with this wonderful cake.

The design of this cake is spectacular, a trunk box that gives the illusion of jewelry, beads & wrapper spilling out. Amongst the various tribes in Nigeria this box is not just a symbol, but a necessity. It is usually filled up with utilitarian things as requested by the bride’s family and its contents vary from one tribe to another. Since we’ve been given the honor of making this gorgeous traditional cake, we’d love to share this experience with you.

1.       We started by soaking the mixed fruits in Rum and Lemon rind for about a month (note that she requested for a fruit cake).

2.       The next step after the soaked fruits have fully matured is to mix the ingredients and cake the fruit cake (note that we’re baking 4 rectangular cakes).

3.       As soon as they’re out of the oven, we pour Rum & Brandy on the baked cakes, allow them to cool and then wrap in foil paper.

4.       Stack 3 of these cakes to form the trunk, while leaving the last one to serve as the trunk box cover, trim or carve the stacked cakes to your desired shape as shown below.

                                                                

5.       Next we spread butter cream all around our cake (butter cream has several uses in this case it is used to stick the fondant to the cake).

                                                                                

6.       Cover with fondant and trim off the rough edges.

                                                                

                                                                

7.       Make, create or design the coral beads and the wrapper pieces with fondant, and then place these coral beads & wrapper in strategic areas to create the effect that you want.

                                                                

                                               

8.       Now we go back to the 4^th rectangular cake which will act as the trunk box cover, and wrap it all up with butter cream & fondant just like we did with the 3 stacked cakes, then we gently place this cake on top of the other ones.

                                                                

9.       We now proceed to paint the cake board/base with edible silver dust …do you notice the reflection of light coming off the cake board?

                                                                

                                                               

                                                                

                                                               

10.   Put finishing touches by adding more ornaments and painting them to further enhance the beauty of the cake.

                                                                

                                                                

11.   Picture time.

                               

                                                                

12.   Packaging and getting my gorgeous cake ready for the trip………………… safe trip.

                                                                

                                                                                                                                         

 So there it is, you now have the lovely illusion of a trunk box with jewelry, beads & wrapper spilling over.

                                               

                                                                       
I hope this write up was interesting and useful to everyone, please feel free to send in your comments.