Welcome to Cakes with Lorelie.
Today you're going to see how to make this beautiful semi-naked
wedding cake with fresh flowers. Subscribe and ring the bell if you want to
see more baking and cake decorating videos. Start with a 14 or 16 inch foam board.
a 12 inch this is a 12 inch carrot cake. Sticky side goes down and then you
pipe a ring of buttercream around . The filling is a lemon cream cheese and the link
is below. And then the next layer goes on. The cakes are nice and cold so that's going to help
to set up the buttercream and the cream cheese.
Repeat that for the next layer. And then the top layer goes on. Make sure
everything's nice and straight. In this case I'm going to freeze the cake again but you could
refrigerate it at this point. It depends on how long you're going to be holding it for. If you
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over now. Pause the video and go check it out. So now we're back to our cake. Now we're into
the center tier and it's basically just the same thing. We're going to repeat that for the
center and for the top tier. This particular tier actually needs to be trimmed so I will do
that later. And then here's the six inch topper. This cake is delicious and it's in my
book. Links are below for all of that. We're going to finish the cake now. This is a semi
naked wedding cake. So for that cake you want to put a thick layer on top but on the sides you
want to go very light. Now I did do a layer of cream cheese first because it adds extra flavor.
and then I'm going to do the buttercream over it. And then scrape it down just enough to
show a little bit of that beautiful crust. You can use a cake pan for this.
I usually do but
I just kind of grabbed this because it was just the perfect size. And I'm making a mark there so I
can know where to put the straws. This cake being frozen makes it very difficult to put the straws
in so you might need to do a dowel first and make the holes and then put the straws in, or whatever
dowels you happen to be using. I like to use straws. And then just repeat for all cakes. The top
part of the cake I will probably come in later and smooth out a little bit more even though
you're not going to see much of that because the layers are going to be on top of it.
I mean
the tiers. So the tiers are each individual cake and the layers are within the cake. I'm
marking this one with an 8 inch pan. Same thing. You want to use a dowel
that's been sharpened to make holes and then put your dowel rods in.
Dowels can be wooden or plastic. Finishing off that top tier. This cake
is going to have fresh flowers on it and it's for a backyard wedding. Going to get some flowers! Trim them up.
Any
of the stems that might get in the water I take those off. I've got two buckets
here. Small one for the little pieces and the big one for the big pieces. So you
want to make sure to clip off the ends so it makes this fresh again so it can suck up
the water. I'm going to do the same thing with this one. So pretty. So the flowers are in the basement already prepped. You can put them in a cool spot like this
and they'll be fine overnight. If you need to keep them for more than one night you
might want to keep them in the fridge. So that's going to be pretty. Cake is in here. 12 , 9 , 6
all ready for tomorrow. And a brief tutorial on how to put the cake
together. You can use parchment paper in between. Touch up the cake a little bit.
In this case I'm putting buttercream down
first and then the parchment paper. Remember the straws are already in the cake. A sharpened
wooden dowel goes right through the center. Give that a little bit of a
twirl or a twist as you put it in. Go all the way down into the foam board below.
That will help to keep the cake in place. This is wax paper and buttercream
on top. Usually we put the flowers on at the venue however in this case we're doing
the flowers before we drop off the cake. This is for a home wedding and the cake
is going to be put into their kitchen until it's time to bring it out later on in
the evening. It's really hot and humid today so the cake really needs to
stay inside as long as possible. It was hot and humid, the cake was moist, we
had really a lot of hills to go up and down , we were a little nervous, but literally it was
only a 10-minute drive and guess what? We made it! .
