Hi everyone! In this video tutorial, you will learn to make an elegant wedding dress cake. As I researched for my design, I found several beautiful wedding dress cakes online. I also considered lots of possible styles for the dress form.
I was inspired by the vintage forms that I found online, which had decorative metal pieces for a more whimsical feel. I really enjoyed putting my own spin on this fun, yet impressive bridal shower cake! Please see below the video for details on materials, notes, etc. Enjoy the video!
Materials
6 inch cake (I used White Almond Sour Cream), three two inch layers to form the skirt of the dress.
12 inch cake layer (I used a single 2″ layer for this)
Fluffy Vanilla Buttercream
Cardboard Cake Circles (for beneath dress and beneath 12″ round.)
Wilton Tip 2- For small bead border around cake Fondant with tylose kneaded into it. (I use Satin Ice)
White Chocolate Ganache (Optional. This is what I used beneath my fondant layer)
Black Fondant (I used pre-colored Satin Ice black with tylose kneaded into it) for the dress form
Royal Icing– Optional. I used this for the pearl necklace and details on the fondant.
Colors Used: I used Americolor Super Black, Americolor Teal, Americolor Chocolate Brown, Americolor Ivory
Floral Wire- I used 20 gauge, paper covered wire. Any gauge that can be bent/curled, yet hold it’s shape is good.
Vodka- Optional. I used this to create “paint” to color my floral wire.
Paint Brushes– For painting the floral wire. I also use the handles as a modeling tool.
Tylose Sugar/Tylose Glue (¼ teaspoon warm water plus 2 Tablespoons tylose)
Stir Straw- Good if you’d like a barrier between the floral wire and the cake (referring to the anchor for the coat stand)
Bubble Tea Straws- (or your preferred method of support) – placed beneath the dress cake.
Lollipop Sticks (Anchor the form)
Fondant Rolling Pin
Disco Dust/Pixie Dust Pearl Dust
Tulle- For wedding veil
Alphabet Clay Embossing Set–Optional (Used to stamp “Here Comes the Bride” in fondant)–
A Few Notes~ You may have noticed that in rolling out/cutting the fondant sections for the skirt of the dress, I did not measure at all. The sections were not necessarily the same width, and it really doesn’t matter because once the folds are created, it flows nicely and appears to be all one piece. For the length, I cut off the excess fondant when I was finished applying sections of fondant around the cake. You may have noticed all of this from our video but I wanted to make sure that I explained this! ;0)
*If you are interested in making a larger version of this cake, you can easily adjust to larger cake layers. If you’d like to see a demonstration, check out our Barbie cake video. Also, just as with our Barbie cake, you can frost the Wedding Dress cake with buttercream rather than using fondant. I would still use fondant for the top portion of the dress.
*** My wedding dress cake (top tier) is not a difficult cake to make, and you will be so proud of the results! I did want to emphasize that the carved down 6″ tier is not going to yield many servings. For me, it is more of a focal point–it may serve approx 6 and is meant to go on top of another tier when made that small. If you’d like to see how I carve a larger version of the skirt, you can check out my Barbie Cake video! I think that’s all for now, but please let me know if you have any questions. Thanks so much for your support– have a great day!
MELISSA ITS BEAUTIFUL IM GOING TO GIVE IT A GO X
Thanks for the Tutorial, can’t wait to make
This….
Love it!
bellissima….:-))))
That’s adorable. Question- what did u do with ALL that yummy cake? :)
Oh its gorgeous!!
Melissa the video stops at min 25:56 and restarts again :O(
Is there anything that I can do??? Or is there something wrong with the video??
Thanks
Su
I like it!!! I will give it a try….u r awesome!!!!
This is so lovely. I can’t wait to make this! :) Thank you for your amazing tutorials.
xox emilialeslie
you did a good job good luck
Thanks everyone for your comments! So glad that you are like the video. —
@Su–I’m sorry that you are having trouble! When in doubt, the first thing that we ask people to do who experience inconsistent viewing is to update your browser and/or Adobe Flash player.
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This is awesome, I like so much, Thanks so much for your effort.
Hi Melissa!!!
I was finally able to see the entire video!!! It’s beautiful, thank you soo much for sharing, I can’t wait to do it for one of my bff’s bridal shower :O)
Thanks :O)
Love it, Love it, Love it!
Sweet heavens!! I love this!! My bestie will be getting married and I think this will be a terrific bridal shower cake to make for her!
Melissa can you share where on line you bought the floral colored wire. I have the grey wire where I bought at Michael’s. They don’t carry black or white. I also checked Joann’s.
Thanks!!! :)
Hi Yaneri–I’m glad that you like the cake! My floral wire (paper covered) is from globalsugarart.com — but many places sell it online. If you google Sunrise brand floral wire, you should find several sources. That’s the brand I use but there are many options out there. Good luck!
Absolutely stunning! Love it!
Thanks for a great tutorial~
Just Beautiful! Can’t wait to have an occasion to make this one <3 it!
Hi Melissa,
I didn’t see you use a dowel or support between the dress and the cake to prevent the dress from falling off during transport. Would i need that added support when traveling?
Thanks for the tutorial!
Absolutely beautiful- where do you get your cake ideas ? Once again you have shown me how talented you are. Thanks again and I am so glad I found this school for cake decorating.
Thank you again! I so appreciate your comments!
@cdenisefutch~ I show putting bubble tea straws beneath the dress cake for support around the 24 minute mark (just as if it were a top tier)…I’m not sure if that’s what you mean though. Are you wondering about hammering a sharpened dowel through the tiers and into the base? If it were me, I probably wouldn’t find this to be a necessary step (I usually don’t do this for two tiered cakes…I just chill the cake before transport to firm things up and also make sure that the top tier is “glued” to the bottom tier with a smear of buttercream.) However, if you have far to travel, it never hurts to play it self with a center dowel! You’d just want to make sure that your cake base is at least 1/2″ thick so that you can hammer the sharpened dowel thorough the cake (slightly off center so that it won’t interfere with the placement of the top half of the dress & lollipop stick anchor).
Let me know if I’m misunderstanding! I hope this helps~
This is such a great tutorial! You are very talented and helpful! I can’t wait to try this.
This video seems to be missing for me, other videos are loading ok
Hi Melissa, video is not loading for me, too…rest of the videos are ok…which I am grateful for… I just recently joined, and in time for my recovery from surgery… your videos distract me from the pain…hopefully, I get to do the techniques when I am up and about.
Hello! I”m sorry for those who were not able to see this video! We discovered at the end of November that we were not receiving e-mail notifications of comments left beneath videos. That issue is fixed now but I’m sorry for those who have been waiting on this video!
I think that it should be fixed now–I just reloaded it. Are you able to see now?
(@Paper and Flour–Get well soon! xo)
Thanks!
I would like to make this as a shower cake for approx. 35 people. Do you think it would work to add one more 12 inch layer…. maybe with a cake board between the layers?
Hi Melissa–Yes, I think that would be fine. You’ll have leftovers as even the “party servings” for Wilton say that a 12″ (2 layer) will serve 40.
You could also go with a 2 layer 10 inch cake which would sever approximately 28 according to Wilton’s party servings. In addition to the 6 or so servings you could get from the dress, you would be right around your target number.
(Also, at showers, and especially if there will be other food served, servings are often cut a little smaller) —
You could go with a cake board between the two layers if you want to go with a shorter serving size with no filling. Or, each serving could be two layers–either way, you’ll come out with around the same number of servings.
Here’s Wilton’s Party serving chart in case you need it–
http://www.wilton.com/cakes/making-cakes/baking-party-cake-2-inch-pans.cfm
There are others in our “Member Resources” section under “Helpful Links”. Excited that you are making this ;0)
This is a wonderful tutorial! Thank you!!
Thank you so much for your compliment.
The bride wants the wedding dress as a take home. Would making a double layer base cake be out of portion? What filling is preferable when I would only use butter cream for the dam?