50th Wedding Anniversary for Harold and Lois

I was booked to do this cake and cupcakes months in advance. I was so honoured to be asked as well. They still had their original cake topper and wanted to use that as the topper for the 50th anniversary celebration.

The original cake was square with the leaves and rosettes on the corners. It was hard to tell the colours as the picture I had for reference was black and white! I decided to add some gold accents, which actually looked more like copper in the end. This was a 6" chocolate cake.

It was a beautiful sunny day but difficult to take pictures when facing the windows! I made 12 dozen cupcakes in four different flavours; chocolate, vanilla, carrot and lemon.

Each flavour had a different coloured fondant heart and the guests could use the legend to decide on which cupcake to take. Hopefully there were no surprises!

The hall was decorated so beautifully. Love the flower arrangements on the dessert table. There were two trays on pedestals that I was able to put all the cupcakes out at once.

Happy 50th Anniversary to Harold and Lois!

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