It’s been more than a year since I made my tiniest wedding cake, but it’s still one of my favorites by far. One reason I love it so much is because I made it for my dear friend Dee’s son’s wedding. She let me have a lot of design freedom and I was really ecstatic with how it turned out. I mean come on… it’s a Tiny Wedding Cake.
Another reason I love it so much? Because it was tiny!! Oh, I already said that 😉 For reasons I cannot explain, I love all things tiny or mini or itty-bitty. You get the idea.
I made the cake so tiny because the reception was only for a few family and friends – but she still wanted it to look like a “real” wedding cake. The smallest I dare make it was 4″, 6″ and 8″ tiers.
The funny thing is – only after Dee showed up to pick it up did I find out she was traveling with it to a venue almost 2 hours away. I might have panicked a little bit.
Tall, skinny cakes wobble. And for whatever reason, they don’t feel as stable or sturdy as larger cakes. So finding out that my skinny, tall, wobbly cake was going for a 2 hour drive might have made me queasy. Like a lot.
But I said a prayer (yes, I pray for my cakes every.time.) , boxed it up and sent it on it’s way. Thank goodness, Dee has a fantastic sense of humor! She said if it fell over on the drive, they’d just grab forks and eat it straight out of the box… ha! Thank goodness, it didn’t come to that.
Oh and I realized after taking pics that the cake didn’t look as tiny as it really was so I made my husband snap a picture of (very tired) me holding it for proof :
A Tiny Wedding Cake
Tiny, right?
Okay – so let me give you a few more details…
I baked the cakes in my favoriate Magic Line Pans. If I remember correctly (I don’t have a lot of notes) – this cake was white almond sour cream and the frosting was vanilla buttercream.
I used this (my most favorite bench scraper) to smooth the buttercream, then I piped rosettes for the border with a Wilton 1M tip.
Dee asked that i use some pale yellow and/or mint green in the decorations, so I used a mint green ribbon on the board (see my tutorial for covering a board with glitter paper and using a ribbon border here) and then I used both the pale yellow and the green in the wafer paper flowers on top.
Wafer Paper Flowers
I absolutely love doing these flowers. They’re so super easy and are easily one of my favorite flowers to put on cake. You can see where I’ve used them before here and here and another down at the bottom of this post.
Want to learn to make these incredibly easy wafer paper flowers? Everything you need to know about making these wafer paper flowers is in this class (along with tons of other invaluable cake decorating information).
Okay – let me wrap this up… 🙂 The last thing I want to mention is the pretty, pretty cake stand!! I know I say this all the time, but it’s true (because I love them all)… this cake stand is a FAVE!!
I love the client. I loved the cake. I love the cake stand. Love, love, love!!
Click on the image below to find the cake stand 🙂
Okay – that’s it!! Do you have any questions? Leave me a comment! Also, check out the pink wafer paper flower on the cake below and I’d love for you to pin and share this post!
Happy Caking!
Rose
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This is a great cake. And I do love the cake stand! Good job!
Thank you!
Really? Tiny? That’s what people in my tax-bracket call a normal-sized wedding cake. Here i thought I was being led to a Barbie-sized one! Lol! Oh, the differences in lives. ❤
Awww, well, it was the smallest I’ve ever made. Most wedding cakes I do have at least 100 servings and I don’t think I’ve made another one that I could hold by myself. Sorry!
Hi, Rose, this was a beautiful cake, but it wasn’t so tiny… LOL – It looked big to me! I’m sure they loved it. 10″ 8″ 6″ is my very largest wedding cake – Although I love decorating wedding cakes, most brides want really like tall cakes. Yours was simple but AWESOME.
You don’t think? Well, I’m pretty sure it’s the only wedding cake I’ve ever been able to hold without help. I guess we do BIG wedding cakes down here in the South 😉 THank you!
We also do very big wedding cakes here in Florida – in fact, my daughter’s wedding cake was 5 tiers, but I didn’t make it – I’m the one who prefers smaller weddings cakes – much easier to transport and set up and I’m not keeping my fingers crossed the entire trip hoping the person in front of me doesn’t slam on his brakes.
I love your postings and your cakes are really pretty and colorful. Thank you for sharing your work with us.
Thanks so much Dolores! xx
It is beautiful. Simple but elegant. I don’t know how you manage to make cakes with six kids. You are amazing.
Thank you Rosanna! They help me out a LOT!!
Hi have you ever made any naked cakes with sugared fruit? Do you have any pictures and advice? It’s going to be for roughly 100 to 130 people and Mom (that would be me) got elected to make it. What size pans and layers in round would you go with.
Thanks,
I have not done sugared fruit. I recommend using the “wedding servings” on the Wilton chart to figure up the sizes needed. 6″, 8″, 10″ and 12″ = 130 servings on my app.
Simple Elegance! I love it!
Did you cut the wafer paper flowers by hand ? Maybe you have a tutorial showing and I missed it?
I link to the Craftsy class where I learned to make them. You can cut them by hand but I use paper punches.
Your cakes and flowers are simply gorgeous!!! Kudos to you for challenging yourself , writing about it all the while homeschooling 6 kids! You’re amazing, and it IS a tiny wedding cake honey, don’t listen to anyone else Keep doing what you’re doing, sharing is caring!
Thank you so much Carrie! xx
Thank you Carrie!! xx
I love this tiny cake and I love the stand!! Was the cake a 4, 6 , 8?? Thanks for sharing!!
Yes! 🙂
Love the cake! I haven’t ever seen one with the rosettes just on the bottoms. Really good idea. Just wondered what you used for supports in it? And do you put a center dowel down thru it?
I use bubble tea straws and wooden dowels in all of my cakes. I have a tutorial here: https://rosebakes.com/cowboy-western-cake-smash-cake-how-to-stack-cake-tiers-tutorial/.
I like the cake and the flowers. Simply and beautiful. How many layers in each tier please? Did you put any fruits in side?
Only 2 layers in each tier and it didn’t have any fruit filling.
I love following your blog and was excited when I saw this post! My husband’s cousin recently asked me to make her wedding cake in the fall. I make birthday cakes for family members/holiday cakes for family BUT have never attempted a wedding cake. Thats a lot of pressure! It’s a small wedding, so I will definitely check out the Wilton’s measurements for how big I should make it. What I’m really struggling with is do I agree to do it, or is this something that would cost WAYYYYY too much and be out of my league? She hasn’t offered to give me any money for supplies and I only have the standard cake pans for a 3 layer cake. From a (really excellent!) baker’s standpoint, is a wedding cake wayyyy more difficult/expensive?
All the cakes and cake stands are really gorgeous and well designed. Thanks for sharing! 🙂 Many couples want their wedding cake big. It seems you can make really big cakes with your magical hands!