The wedding cake is finished!!

 Firstly let me say there is NO WAY I could have finished these cakes without Jon's help. Kneading the fondant alone was a huge task (we had to remake 3 batches of it too). Sometime during covering the final layer of the Brides cake my knee made a popping sound & then the pain came. I had no choice but to keep walking on it & today I had to borrow Mom Whipples crutches to get around. Then we were rescued by Mom & Dad Whipple when our van engine spontaneously combusted just after the cakes had been loaded. Luckily, the cakes were fine. However several important things in our engine melted before things got under control so I am without a car for an undetermined amount of time. Yay. All that aside, the cakes turned out well & the bride & groom loved them so all's well that ends well. For more pictures...

Here's  a picture of the Grooms cake. We hit a pretty good bump on the way there and you can see a ripple on the bottom of the cake, but the Groom was really excited & he & his parents didn't even notice it. The bottom says "Title Match" .The idea is that he's the red Rockem Sockem (who has lost-notice the popped up head) & she's the blue. The side is covered with advertisements of "sponsors" of the match. The next picture is a 1/2 sheet cake that was sugar-free because both the dad's were diabetic. It's supposed to be an advertisement for the "boxing match". The "no cats" sign was a special request of the groom. (Sorry, I still haven't figured out how to rotate pictures on this thing.)

 

Here's a couple more pictures of the brides cake (Thanks to Mom Whipple for taking pictures as I was occupied with cakes & pain). The gumpaste flowers on the cake are peonies, orchids, roses, & small blossoms. I'll give the directions for making the other flowers in another post. The layers were 16", 12" & 8" abd about 6-7 inches high. A LOT of cake. Jon can attest that they were pretty heavy too.

 

That's all I'm doing tonight. Catch you later!