The average amateur decorator would probably not have been done in buttercream. The ingredients used consider attempting a complicated project as decorating a wedding cake can be your own favorite mix or a wedding cake. If you have followed the simple one of the many ready-mixes. We prefer a very lightsteps in border work and flower technique you should mix. Each tier is normally baked in three layers with realize by now that all these simplified designs may be buttercream between each layer. Each tier is iced sepately, easily used for a wedding cake. You can decorate your layer separately and placed upon the preceding tier, wedding cakes as completely and as beautifully as the the old idea of decorating a wedding cake entirely in ones shown here by following the instructions given white icing is giving way to the use of pastels. Depend on the previous sections for using on the colors the bride or attendants are wearing, all of our cakes illustrated on the following pages are the same pastel colors can be worked into the wedding iced in either buttercream or poured with a fondant. cake design. Most of the decorating is done in boiled icing.