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Wedding Cake.
24 Jul 2022 03:47 pmOne of the ladies from church married her partner on Tuesday. They are both 70, and only wanted a small ceremony followed a small celebration (less than 20 people) at Milntown.
Diane asked if I would make them a simple sponge cake as a wedding cake. I said I would, as my gift to them, provided that they really didn't want anything too complicated, and showed her a picture of the one I did for my daughter's wedding.
When Gillian, Diane's fiancée, saw it she asked if I could do them almost the same thing, just on one layer, as she loved it; as long as my daughter didn't mind. D-d didn't mind at all.
So I ended up doing my second wedding cake - to the same design as the first one! Here it is just before it left my kitchen;
Our weather for the days preceding the wedding were in the upper 20s (centigrade) - which was certainly too hot for buttercream, and even the thin fondant layer, to hold shape and not just melt and run down the sides leaving nothing but two plain sponges and a sticky sweet puddle! So between each step the cake went back into the fridge - and I did worry that that might have dried the actual cake bit out.
So I was very pleased to get an e-mail about a meeting, which was from someone who had been to the reception and, instead of starting with meeting related stuff, began Your cake was truly amazing - both flavour and appearance!
Diane asked if I would make them a simple sponge cake as a wedding cake. I said I would, as my gift to them, provided that they really didn't want anything too complicated, and showed her a picture of the one I did for my daughter's wedding.
When Gillian, Diane's fiancée, saw it she asked if I could do them almost the same thing, just on one layer, as she loved it; as long as my daughter didn't mind. D-d didn't mind at all.
So I ended up doing my second wedding cake - to the same design as the first one! Here it is just before it left my kitchen;
Our weather for the days preceding the wedding were in the upper 20s (centigrade) - which was certainly too hot for buttercream, and even the thin fondant layer, to hold shape and not just melt and run down the sides leaving nothing but two plain sponges and a sticky sweet puddle! So between each step the cake went back into the fridge - and I did worry that that might have dried the actual cake bit out.
So I was very pleased to get an e-mail about a meeting, which was from someone who had been to the reception and, instead of starting with meeting related stuff, began Your cake was truly amazing - both flavour and appearance!