*cake pilot!*: a nod to a coco chanel wedding in cake and farewell to plasti-dome.

so we were assigned a wedding dress cake. we were tasked with finding a wedding dress and creating a cake around that. having recently planned a wedding (2 years is recent isn't it??) that is exactly what i had asked my cake designer to do. design a cake that payed homage to my beloved gown and to please please please give it an elegant, yet whimsical vibe by pulling in breezy and hues of blue. i LOVE my wedding cake. LOVED. loved. with that in mind, i did the same thing for my imaginary bride. i selected an entire wedding as my inspiration. her hair, her dress, her pink, girlish flower wall art, her ruffles, the pearls. everything. by the way, to see the wedding itself, please head over to styleunveiled and you'll see how i got the cake design i did. they have stunning taste. and i often visit there to daydream. i adore weddings.

here's the one picture that i borrowed from the site:

the cake i designed included ruffles, fantasy, anemone-inspired flowers with chanel-inspired black pearl centers, swiss dot pearls and a stark contrast black belt. it was also dusted with a diamond pearl dust, just to luster it up and make it sparkle. i don't have any white-box photos of it as of yet. it is still at school, wrapped in plastic, waiting for me to lug it home. (it's a dummy cake: ie. made of styrofoam so it's got some really good shelf-life...assuming it can survive the shelf in class and the long trip home)

here are some photos i took in class:

i hope to take more once i get it home and tweak it a touch. but all in all, i wanted to challenge myself and do a white on white cake with a few touches of black and pink. working with black on white presents its share of challenges and using all white afforded me the opportunity to play with texture and patterns. all in all, i loved how it came out and i see the wedding in my cake. it's fun, youthful, playful and pretty. now, to get it home in one piece!!

speaking of trips home, i have to update you on some somber news. remember my sidekick, plasti-dome??? i'm so sad and sorry to report that i left it on the train a few weeks ago. i had fallen asleep and awoke in penn and scrambled to get to class. you know how you wake up sometimes and you're all thrown off like, "OH, i'm here!!" and off i went and it's the saddest of partings. plasti-dome has been with me since day one, and now, alas, i know not of his whereabouts. i just know i am actually a bit bummed. i'm oddly sentimental and we found each other on ebay years ago. he was a bit of a gift and was the perfect, retro-style cake dome that i had searched and searched for. we were a perfect pair.