For my American friends and family, Happy Fourth of July! With all of the buzz surrounding today’s American holiday, and a weekend of celebrating Canada Day in cottage country, I am definitely in celebration mode. What better way to keep the celebration going, than by sharing a preview of my first wedding magazine feature with you — Wedding Bells Fall/Winter 2011 (the issue is not on stands quite yet, but will be on July 11th!). And nothing says wintery celebration better than an abundance of glitter and confetti. When Rosie (yep, that’s her name!) from Wedding Bells asked me to create two jewel-toned, confetti-inspired, glitter-themed cakes, I was so excited (needless to say). I really connected with the theme, and I knew, as I’m sure you would imagine, it would be a truly fun and festive project to be part of. The key with the cake design was keeping them clean and classic enough to ensure that the glitter was the star of the show, but, of course, super luxe and flirty.
Fun! I kept the large cake pure white with a mosaic of paper-thin sugar discs coated in 6 different jewel-toned shades of glitter (including my beloved 24 karat gold!) on the bottom tier, some simple swags on the middle tier, and a super-glittery sugar ribbon and bow in a custom red-raspberry glitter to finish the top tier. I coated the smaller cake completely using a custom-colour glitter that I created using 8 shades in total to compliment the larger cake, and topped it with 3 sugar cherries coated in the red-raspberry glitter and emerald glitter stems. Simple, but super sparkly!
My cakes were just one part of an entire glitterati story, and I love how it all came together: glittery stationery, centrepieces, favours, and, of course, absolutely stunning and vibrant glitter cupcakes and cookies by the talented Cat from Sugar Baking. Love it all!
Thanks for letting me share my exciting news with you! I hope you’re having a great week so far, and I’ll be back in just a few days with another recipe to share!
Love, Rosie xo
*glitterati photos by Jim Norton Photography
Congrats, congrats on your feature! The cake is so tres chic, popping with fun!!! Now that’s a wedding I’d love to attend.
How awesome! I LOVE SPARKLE! Its total glitz and glam! Congrats to you and all your wonderful, hard work! I love all you do and this is just another wonderful creation! I’m from south Texas and love following your blog! I just made my first apple pie, well two for the 4th of July and so far,it looks great! Happy 4th! Woohoo! :)
Oh my goodness! Congratulations! What a fantastic opportunity… and you just a fabulous job, my friend! And thank you for the happy 4th wishes! ;-)
Big congrats! These are fabulous!
So fantastic, Rosie! I seriously adore these cakes (just like your gorgeous glittery navy and gold cookies)! You have me itching to buy some glitter and use it on something…anything…sweet! Congrats, love them!
Congratulations! You did an amazing job and should be so proud of yourself. Your talent is amazing!
Congrats on the wonderful feature! I’d be so torn between cutting into something so beautiful, but wanting to devour something so yummy!
You guys are so sweet, and thank you so much for the kind words!
Congratulations! Im so excited to see this wonderful opportunity to show off your beautiful creations! Just wait for the day the magazine hits the stands and watch how many new followers you will have. Congrats again!
O what AWESOME cakes!!!! just beautiful!!!! Congratulations..
Mandy
There are no words. The design….the execution…so proud of you. There is no better caker the could have chosen! :-)
Congrats! Love this. Your cakes are my absolute favorite so it’s so nice to see you get recognition!
Congrats, your cake looks so sparkle! It’s totally Fun!
Best Regards
Manuela
Congrats Rosie! What a wonderful experience :)
What a neat feature. Congrats! Your cakes look gorgeous!
Congrats on the magazine feature, how exciting! It looks fantastic!
Wow…Congratulations! The cakes look fantastic.
Whooohooo!! Congrats!! your cakes look ah-mazing!!
Wow….gorgeous!
So gorgeous Rosie! Perfection!
Beautiful cake Rosie! Congratulations on being featured in wedding bells’ magazine!
Beautiful! Congrats on the magazine feature.
I love this cake. It is amazing.
These are so fantastic! I LOVE the glitter! The bow really makes me swoon; cherries too. Congrats, these are amazing!
Congrats Rosie! This is such an exciting feature and beautiful cake!
Totally love + adore. You have extraordinary talent. Dazzling.
How fun is that? You are amazing lady!!
*jaw drop* WOW. Can’t wait to grab that mag! Congratulations, Rosie!
Congrats Rosie! Awesome as always!!!
Fantastic work… beautiful photo, love the color theme
Congratulations Rosie that’s awesome! Your cakes are stunning and I know they will be a hit with their readers.
OMG! I love your work! I’ve been looking for some edible glitter like that everywhere! What do you recommend using??
Those cakes would be perfect for a New Year’s eve wedding.
I predict they will spark a flood of requests for glitter themed cakes.
Congratulations love! Those glitter cakes a fabulous, they have as much sparkle and charm as you do my dear!
Dear Rosie. Seriously, how do you keep your weight under control?
Thanks so much for all of the kind, wonderful, and supportive words. You sure know how to make a girl feel good!
Beautiful cakes Rosie! This may seem like a silly question but I’m assuming that’s edible glitter? I’ve never seen anything like it before, where would one find edible glitter?
Wow Rosie! Just stunning! Well done … so proud of you!
Beautiful Rosie!! Congratulations!! How very very exciting!! And your cakes are beyond lovely, as always! SO fun, you are wonderful! xoxo
Oh my gosh, this is wonderful, Rosie! I will keep my eyes open for the issue!
All your hard work and incredible talent is continuing to bear fruit in every way!
Oh my! Congrats on the article, these are beautiful! You know, for a long long time I’ve been slightly suspicious of disco dust – in certain parts of the internet you will hear people shouting condemnation for ‘only’ being non-toxic and not ‘edible’ but you have thoroughly reassured me: if someone as popular and awesome at what they do as you can use them without fuss, why not?! I’m a complete glitter addict and have been gazing longingly at disco dusts in caking shops for just as long as I’ve been worried about using them, but now I’m finally going to get myself a couple of pots.
Basically, what I’m saying is that these are amazing.
anything glittery looks super pretty. your work is so beautiful!
This is absolutely gorgeous! Must be really fitting for weddings!
I love..at the moment Iam currently taking a Wilton Gum & Paste decoration course….I was not soo much interested in fondant but after seeing your art work I am now looking forward to it…
Hi Rosie,
I was wondering if you could share your technique for applying glitter to the entire cake. I had a potential design in mind for a wedding client and I just wanted to get an very even finish… Thanks in advance for your help… please fee free to email me directly.
Judy
(on Facebook at Pink Frosting Custom Cake Designs)