This lace-inspired 50th birthday celebration cake in black and white is elegant and pretty as the lady herself. A wafer paper lace cake is probably one of the easiest cakes to make and decorate when you are short on time. Simple easy technique but a huge wow factor.
There is something about black and white together I just love! How pretty is this?
A long overdue cake for a lovely lady celebrating her 50th birthday. The order was placed last year but due to some reason, they had to postpone the celebrations until last month. Almost a year later they celebrated her 51st birthday instead.
The cake is a double barrel cake of course. We've already discussed how to make double barrel cakes in detail on this previous post - what are double barrel cakes. Please refer to that. I will be honest there use to be a time when I hated making double barrel cakes, especially draping the fondant. Now it's not so scary. It's all about practice.
About this cake
- This is two 7 inch round cakes each 4 inches tall then stacked one on top of each other.
- You can find my layer cake recipes here - 45 plus layer cake recipes
- The cake is filled with my Italian Meringue Buttercream and frosted with chocolate ganache.
- I then covered the cake in black fondant.
- The rose is a wafer paper rolled rose which we have a tutorial - Rolled Wafer Paper Rose.
- The white lace is again wafer paper. I used two sheets of A4 size paper for this cake.
- You can see in the video I used a Martha Stewart Stamp cutter to cut out the lace. You will have to browse thru a few to find the pattern you want.
- To attach the wafer paper rose and lace to the cake I used homemade piping gel- I've given you two recipes on how to make piping gel too!
Wafer paper lace cake video
There is no tutorial of course but I did share this little clip on my Instagram that had a few of you ask about so I'm adding the video here for you. As you can see the technique is simple and easy but what you do need is to make sure you are precise and careful when cutting the lace. Since the whole sheet is used you have to (hold your breath! Yup!!) and ensure you line the pattern well.
I'm not a patient person but in this case, I did hold my breath and get it perfectly cut. Yup! didn't ruin any more wafer paper. I used one and a half sheet of wafer paper taking care to line the seams well at the back.
Another important tip is to be careful when adding the piping gel. I actually used piping gel on the cake, not on the rice paper cause lining it even on the cake needed a little more working time and I did not want the delicate wafer paper pattern to rip on me.
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Black and White Wafer Paper Lace
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Materials
- 4 layers Simple moist chocolate cake
- 300 grams Italian Meringue Buttercream
- 500 grams Cake Decorators Chocolate Ganache
- 500 grams Black Fondant
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- 500 grams 30 Frosting Recipes collection
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Instructions
- INSTRUCTIONS
- This is two 7 inch round cakes each 4 inches tall then stacked one on top of each other.
- You can find my layer cake recipes here - 45 plus layer cake recipes
- The cake is filled with my Italian Meringue Buttercream and frosted with chocolate ganache.
- I then covered the cake in black fondant.
- The rose is a wafer paper rolled rose which we have a tutorial - Rolled Wafer Paper Rose.
- The white lace is again wafer paper. I used two sheets of A4 size paper for this cake.
- You can see in the video I used a [easyazon_link identifier="B007E1R8XA" locale="US" tag="vesarofca-20"]Martha Stewart Stamp cutter[/easyazon_link] to cut out the lace. You will have to browse thru a few to find the pattern you want.
- To attach the wafer paper rose and lace to the cake I used homemade piping gel- I've given you two recipes on how to make piping gel too!
Rozella
This is so pretty. I wish I had the patience to use the stamp like you. Even if I held my breath it would not come out as perfect.
Veena Azmanov
Thank you, Rozella. Yes, this one does need a little bit of patience but still possible.
Natalie
This is such a gorgeous cake- I am going to look into these punchers. They do look so easy to use. Still new to wafer paper so this might be a good way to start. Thanks for the inspiration
Veena Azmanov
Thank you Natalie. Yes I love these punchers too. They really are easy to use
Drex Lerik
That is such a pretty cake. Love the contrast of white and black. Saw your video on how you did the wafer paper. So prefect. I bet you had to hold your breath to get it precise every single time.
Veena Azmanov
Thank you Drex. Yes, It was definitely one that I had to concentrate to make sure it's precise.