Behind the Scenes @Sweet & Saucy Shop: Kyong’s Wafer Paper Trio (My Sweet and Saucy)

Hey there! How’s the beginning of fall treating you? Us, we’re suuuuper busy! The beginning of fall brings us tolerable temperatures, and everyone’s rushing to get their weddings in before it gets too cold, so we’ve been working our buns off!

So anyway, to the important stuff… This week, we’ve got a special treat:

Though, we slightly misled you by the title; we’re not showing you a full step-by-step of all three cakes. However, we are going to show you some tricks Kyong used to create these beauties.

These are the sketches Kyong designed for the clients.

Then, upon finding out which designs the client has chosen, we all made wafer paper flowers the weekend before, having learned from Stevi Auble on Craftsy.

Kyong made leaves by wrapping flower wire with floral tape, creating little branches, upon which she affixed the leaves she cut out from wafer paper, using piping gel.

Since these cakes awere all styrofoam dummy cakes, this allowed Kyong to work on them at her leisure, as opposed to worrying about buttercream melting. After covering the dummies with fondant, here are some fun things she did!

For the middle cake, the edges were crimped. We use clamp-like crimping tools, and there are a variety of shapes one can choose. Kyong went with the scalloped look. Later, she wet the edges and attached gold leaf only to the crimped parts.

For the cake on the right hand side, Kyong used Martha Stewart paper cutters to achieve the doily look in between tiers, using very thin fondant.

For the cute little ropes, she extruded black and white fondant into thin tubes, then coiled them around each other.

She traced the line on the cake with piping gel, where she wanted the rope. Then, she attached the black and white rope to the cake.

She made little loops and attached them as so:

Isn’t it the cutest!?

She attached the wafer paper flowers to the cakes using melted modeling chocolate, as we use frequently.

She used a combination of these techniques on these cakes, and we can’t get enough of them! Hope they help inspire you for your future cake endeavors!

Til next time!