The Most Dangerous Food is Wedding Cake, James Thurber 1894 - 1961

Well I don't know exactly what he meant by that, but a wedding cake surely is a cake that celebrates one of the most momentous moments of your life... dangerous? Maybe for some, but for Sarah and Brad the quote should perhaps have said, joyous. I was very happy to make their wedding cake, even though I was so exhausted from last week's effort. Many don't realise the hours of work that go into shopping for ingredients, chopping up all the chocolate and butter, lining of tins, the hours of baking, rolling out of fondant icing, covering of cakes, mixing icing, cutting out, moulding and painting the decorations and applying them to the cake... all by hand! Sarah and Brad's appreciation was so lovely.

 

cutting out all of the heart shapes for the sides and wired spray

Here are the cakes with the ribbons and cords applied and the painted hearts put on

Mini Sarah and Brad

The cake set up at the restaurant

And finally... the bride and groom cut the cake! :-)


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Cake, cake, cake and more cake

What a week this has been... I don't know why I agreed to make 5 cakes for a wedding in the last week of term, but it seems that I did. If it wasn't for my co-chef (Mum) then I don't think I would have managed, because mud cakes cannot be cooked as much in advance as fruit cakes, so the race was on, starting Tuesday.

Check out the ingredients list in total...

Chocolate - 4.8kg (that's 23 x 200g blocks!)

Butter - 2.56kg

Brown Sugar - 9 cups

Water - 9 cups

Kahlua - 3 cups

Eggs - 20

Flour - 7 cups

Some of the chocolate supplies...

Creating the hearts using flood work and touching up the silver edges...

The finished 3 tier wedding cake...

and with the two matching birthday cakes...

So now that this one has been delivered, next up is a three tier cake with a handmade bride and groom for my friend and workmate Sarah who is marrying Brad next Saturday... thank god I am on school holidays now!