Not like cupcake swirls... like on the side of a cake, a whole bunch of swirls in the buttercream. This, being both hard to find and describe (as most of my whacked out ideas tend to be), has made my search for some sort of inspiration for my wedding cake pretty freakin hard.
I know what I don't want. Fondant. I hate fondant. Fondant can die in a sugary fire of doom.
Luckily, my cake decorator uses chocolate clay (which sounds competely awesomely tastey) as an alternative to fondant. It molds well but doesn't taste like butthole wrapped in death (nice mental picture, eh?). So, this solves the problem of the shaped and mysterious grooms cake that I will not describe here in case Mr. Boyface surprises me completely and actually find an inkling of interest in all this wedding crap. (Or I show him this blog, which I am wont to do at times... regardless of his level of give-a-crap)
However, I don't want a flat sided wedding cake. I want texture. I want the buttercream to look... well, creamy! So, I'm set on my swirls... and I have given up on finding inspiration on Google or in fabric or art (which the people on ANY website will show you pictures of... cakes inspired by the bride's favorite fabric... melt...) I don't have a favorite fabric, at least not one with a pattern... an inadequacy I didn't realize I had until planning my wedding...
I ordered my cake topper, Lenox's Opal Innocence Forever Yours. So, now I'm just going with simple. I want the middle tier to be chocolate buttercream (by the way... are there any three words that sound better together in the English language. Chocolatebuttercream. This might be my new favorite phrase. I literally, just love saying it... I can almost taste the words... Chocolatebuttercream... Think about it, what sounds better than creamy chocolate butter? Oh god, I hate being on a diet...) and the other two tiers will be white buttercream (with SWIRLS dammit).
But today, I have been hit with some inspiration!! Sticking with the same theme, only the middle tier will change here. Flat chocolatebuttercream(yum), with white buttercream piped to mimic the latticework on the topper? With little eggplant colored flowers speckling it? And then ask cake lady to pipe some little eggplant colored flowers on the topper?
It's not wintery, no. But I don't really feel it has to be. Right now... I'm feeling more like it has to be mine... and I am feeling pretty good about this one...
By the way... the last paragraph or two literally just hit me while writing the other couple of paragraphs. I think I might try to draw this inspired cake (ha! i can't draw a straight line with a ruler)
And then... I'm going to look into some creamy chocolate butter... mmm
-Bo. J.
PS... one for the road: chocolatebuttercream
*Here is the picture that resulted shortly after this post was finished:
Please forgive the poor image quality... cell phone pic. Poor representation of buttercream swirls by the way...
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