Birch Bark Autumn Wedding Cake

This week's wedding cake is a delicious vanilla bean cake, hand painted to look like birch tree bark, and decorated with hand sculpted fall sugar paste flowers.

To create the birch bark look, I spattered black food dye onto the cake with a paint brush. Then I used a bench scraper to streak the spots around the cake.

Each tier has three layers of moist, fluffy vanilla bean cake, and is frosted with vanilla bean whipped American buttercream.

Congratulations, Melissa and Shawn!