Squires Kitchen Exhibition 2014
March 22nd, 2014
I’ve just spent a fun weekend at the 28th annual Squires Kitchen Exhibition in Farnham, Surrey.
It was my third year of being asked to exhibit my cakes in the Wedding Cake Showroom, and I feel so lucky to be amongst some amazing cake designers and their fabulous new wedding cake designs.
I thought I would share the inspiration behind some of my cakes from the exhibition.
The Gold Stand Wedding Cake was inspired by the gorgeous cakes by Swank Cake Design. I wanted to create the illusion that the whole 5 tiers were resting on the gold feet. I used some of the key colours for 2014 with the gold, blush pink roses and dusky green hydrangeas.
The Pantone colour for 2014 is Radiant Orchid and I made a sugar anemone in a similar colour which I surrounded with lots of tiny lilac flowers. The ruffles trend shows no sign of slowing, so to add a different dimension to the bottom tier, I added vertical ruffles.
While browsing Pinterest (far too much time is spent on there!) I found an amazing dusty blue vintage wedding dress, with a beautiful scalloped lace base and a pink corsage at its waist. I replicated this for the Dusty Blue Lace cake using a combination of sugar lace for the scalloped base and “waist” detail and then brush embroidery for the remainder of the cake.
The final cake I exhibited, Vintage Rice Paper Flowers, will be featured in the next issue of Cakes and Sugarcraft Magazine with a “how to” make the edible rice flowers.
