Of course, way back last year when Marge asked if I'd make her wedding cake, I truly didn't think that I ever would actually do it! I told her I'd love to make it and that wasn't a lie, I was more worried about COULD I make it! I mean, cakes for birthdays are special, but if it's not exactly what you wanted it to be (not that anyone has complained or told me this, at least not to my face), you usually have another go at getting it right the following year. Not so much with a wedding cake, it's pretty much a one shot deal, unless of course your name is Kody Brown who currently has 4 wives and therefore 4 weddings, but that's a whole other conversation.....
I had planned many a sit down with Marge and her Stu, Stu BB as he's known in this household but for one reason or another we didn't really get to do that. So, whilst they were here for another event (one which shall remain nameless as my team got beaten!) I prepared some cake and various fillings for them to try and low and behold 4 weeks before the wedding we had a cake flavor and fillings for each of the tiers, phew!
We'd talked about some designs and colors etc in the passing but nothing really that formal, nor concrete. 2 weeks before the wedding I managed to tie the bride (aka Marge but I won't be able to call her the bride forever, will I?) down to color and final'ish design for her cake.
All systems go... well after the PTA Spring Carnival that I was heavily involved in both the planning and execution (and believe me I did think there was going to be an execution as the night drew to a close...) which happened to be wedding minus 1 week. Now, this was a hectic time and tbh I think it's best that it was like that as I didn't have time to dwell and worry about the best way to do the cake until the day before the wedding. Actually, that's a little fib.. I did bake one of the layers on the Thursday morning, but then had to clear up and head off to the bachelorette party (hen do) which started at lunch time, wonder who organised that so early in the day.... ahem.... Anyway from there to a PTA meeting in the evening and home to fill the tier that I'd baked earlier.
You'd think with all of that activity I'd be fast asleep until the Jessica alarm came bounding in, but alas no. 3am - bing wide awake so I got up and started in on making the gumpaste flowers and some other decoration bits that needed time to dry. It was actually quite theraputic in the wee hours of the morning not quite so much come 7am when the rest of the house wakened. The girls were excited as they were heading off for Spring Break to Myrtle Beach, so I cleared away again (for that read I shoved everything to one end of the table and put the rest on the dining table out of the way) and spent some time with my babies before they headed off for the week.
Friday I got the other layers baked, filled and covered with fondant ready for the decoration. Thankfully it was an evening wedding and the earliest I was allowed to deliver the cake was 4.30pm so I had lots of time on Saturday too to finish up. Unfortunately not enough time to fully clear away the horrendous mess I'd made in the kitchen, dining room and breakfast table before showering and getting ready for the wedding and cake delivery. Funnily enough it was all still sitting there waiting for me when I got home too :-(
We got the cake delivered to the venue and they were still setting up which meant we had to wait for almost 10 minutes which consequently put Stu in a cold panic that he may not have time to get to the English Pub before the ceremony started (but we did). Got it all in place, in it's beautiful setting at the front of the dining room and off we set. I was really nervous until I met the florist on the way out and he said 'awesome cake'. I'm thinking he's seen quite a few cakes in his time and this settled my nerves almost as much as that icy cold pint of Stella :-)
Okay, are you ready for some pics? In true style of my photography, the pictures are pretty dire, but I think you can still see the cake okay, you can, can't you?
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| From the front |
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| From the top |
All 3 tiers are vanilla cake. The top and middle tier are filled with white chocolate buttercream and the bottom tier is filled with whipped milk chocolate buttercream layered with dark chocolate ganache.
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| From the back.... Oh, and the back has some lego panels with the lego bricks tumbling out, naturally ;-) |
