Mmmm..the words DIY and cake used together in the same sentence can strike fear into the hearts of even the most fearless vintage DIY bride.  The sheer size of the daunting task of making your own vintage wedding cake can just seem too much.

Ask me how I know?

I am no cook, anyone I know will attest to that!

I had one miserable attempt years ago with a birthday cake into which I confidently mixed {that was blind confidence!} a tonne of beautiful, dark velvety chocolate drops, delivered it with a flourish into the waiting oven and sat rocking backwards and forwards waiting for my offering to bake to perfection.  So what did I see when I triumphantly sliced open this baked wonder and lowered it softly onto the waiting plate?  ARRGGGHH!  All of my perfectly mixed chocolate drops had done just that…dropped!  They were all lined up in very neat rows…at the very bottom of the cake!

Poof! All my cake baking dreams disappeared in a sudden puff of flour…

So for sanity’s sake for all the DIY and crafty readers among us {and for the less crafty among us, these tutorials are mostly super easy} I have trawled the net far and wide to being you THE VERY BEST DIY vintage wedding cake tutorials.  My absolute fave is the DIY cup cake topping bar…too cute!

In the meantime, I will leave it to the lovely Crystal over at DIY Envy to tell us how it really is:

“So I’m considering making my own wedding cake! Am I crazy? So far, almost everyone I’ve revealed this to seems horrified by the idea. “Why would you put yourself through that?”, they ask. While I completely understand the many ways in which a DIY wedding cake could be a messy mistake, I have reason to believe it will be a sweet success!” read Crystal’s full post here ‘DIY Wedding Cake: Sweet Success or Messy Mistake?’

 

So on to the real  ’How to’s…

I thought you might like to see this wedding cake timeline – it helps me to see tasks laid out like this.