Whew … the busy season has officially begun at Sweet Element Cakes! It looks like it’s going to be a doozy of a summer, and I’m going to do my best to keep up to date here this year!
Last weekend I finally had the opportunity to use this sweet custom cupcake tower designed & built by the ever infamous Mr. Sweet Element. We delivered this tower to The Casino building in Silas County State Park in Kinnelon, NJ last Saturday.
This birds of paradise themed spiral wedding cupcake tower was designed for a super sweet couple, Daniel & Erik. These grooms had the unfortunate experience of having their wedding postponed from last summer to this spring because of the hurricane weather we experienced last August, which caused all state parks to close the day before their wedding! I’m happy to report that they had gorgeous weather for “Wedding Day Take 2” though!
During our initial consultation, I was told that while they definitely wanted a cupcake tower for their wedding, they didn’t want a traditional stacked “wedding-cake-like” tower. Since I knew they wanted a non-traditional tower and they also wanted to use birds of paradise in the design somehow, I came up with the concept of a tower that would incorporate a vase for the floral arrangement and a set of spiral steps for the cupcakes.
In these shots taken from beneath and the side, you can really appreciate the 3D spiral-ness of the design.
The stunning floral arrangement in the vase of the tower was artistically crafted by Larry from Floral Expressions. It’s always a pleasure to see another creative mind at work, and when Larry saw that the vase was slightly bigger than he had expected, he instantly thought of filling in the space with branches that perfectly matched the custom stained wood “steps” of the tower!
And lastly, here’s a close up of the cupcakes themselves. There was a combination of red velvet, devil’s food and vanilla cupcakes, all filled with dark chocolate ganache and frosted with vanilla moussaline buttercream colored to compliment the birds of paradise.
Congrats Daniel & Erik!
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