A couple of weeks ago Aimée, one of my friends from work got married. She asked me/I offered to make her wedding cake. As with most of the other wedding cakes I’ve made, she said she wanted something “simple”. Based on past experience “simple” often doesn’t end up being simple! So I searched on Pinterest for “simple purple wedding cake” and showed a couple to her – surprisingly she picked the simplest one.
The cake she chose was 3 tiers with 3 purple roses on each tier. However, a week before the wedding she changed her mind and decided she wanted some lisianthus too, to match the button holes. I hadn’t started the roses so I agreed, despite having never made lisianthus before. I knew that Becky had made some a couple of weeks before so I asked her advice and she pointed out that The Art of Sugarcraft from Squires Kitchen had a tutorial in – we both bought a copy of it when I took Becky to the Squires Kitchen Exhibition in March for her birthday. 
The lisianthus were probably quicker to make than the roses once I’d got the hang of them. The most time consuming and fiddly part was making the stamen but it was well worth spending time on them. I actually think the cake looked better with two types of flowers on than it would have done with just roses.
Aimée and Jon are both big Aston Villa fans and although they wanted a normal looking wedding cake, they also wanted to try to incorporate something Villa-related, so I suggested a claret and blue chequerboard cake as one of the layers. So from the outside the cake looked perfectly normal, but the bottom tier was a claret and blue lemon cake! In order to create the chequerboard cake I had to make the cake taller than I usually would for a wedding cake (each cake was 4 layers rather than 3 layers high), however, because it was a simple cake, I think the extra height worked well. The other tiers were chocolate and Victoria sponge.
Gloverly Cupcakes 
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