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The last few things! Wedding cakes!
May 27, 2009
Thanks for the comments on my dress! I am now going to attempt to finish posting about the rest of the wedding crafting, as I don't feel I can move on until I have done so (which may be silly but I liked reading about other people's wedding crafting very much, so I want to put mine up too incase it is useful to anybody). I am going to do a post everyday for the rest of the week, and cover stationery, cakes, flowers, and knitting. I was thinking of doing it all in one go, in a mega post, but that would probably be a bit too much!
So today, I am going to cover cakes.
You have seen about 1 billion photos of my cake experimenting already, as we picked the best flavours and tested them numerous times. It was fattening! But also fun.
In the end we had 3 types of cake. Raspberry and almond cake with raspberry mousse topping, dark chocolate cake with lemon filling and chocolate icing, and white chocolate and almond cake with butterscotch cream cheese icing (wheat free). I loved them all! They were served as dessert at the wedding, with ice cream on the side. My Dad made the chocolate ones (he made 48 cakes), and we made all the others (36 of each flavour) - I did the baking as I had time off work, and Adam enthusiastically helped with the icing!
Here are some photos of the delicious things filling up the kitchen:
We drove them to the venue (90 minutes away) in tupperware and I was terrified they would be damaged! But it was all ok.
Here are some professional photos of the cakes in place - you can see the chocolate ones here too. Dad says he never wants to look at another chocolate cupcake, but they were genuinely incredible.
We got the stand from ebay. Which reminds me, I probably should sell it on ebay as we're unlikely to need it again!
Some possibly helpful information for anyone thinking of making their own wedding cakes:
I am not a professional baker, so cupcakes were definitely the option for us - especially as you get to avoid thick, white icing. Cupcakes are pretty easy, and I think they look cute. Also, there are loads and loads of yummy cupcake recipes, and its easy to invent your own to get exactly what you want.
It took me most of a day to make and ice 72 cupcakes. I had 2 cupcake trays, with room for 12 cakes in each, so that was 3 baking sessions. Then I had to make mousse, let it set, pipe it on, then make caramel, get Adam to beat it into cream cheese, and pipe it on.
They were made on Thursday, iced Thursday evening, taken to the venue on Friday and scoffed on Saturday. They still tasted fresh, and when we did all the trial cupcakes, they kept ok for a week (in the fridge - I wouldn't be leaving things out that have cream in them!).
It was fun although ever so slightly stressful, because the raspberry ones didn't rise as much as they usually do, and by Thursday I had gone into mad bride panic. All in all I would DEFINITELY recommend it!
I hope you enjoyed looking at the cakes, flowers next time!
Posted by jen at May 27, 2009 11:55 AM
Comments
Those look outstanding!
Posted by: Jen at May 27, 2009 01:27 PM
I'm so impressed! I just may buy that stand from you on eBay.
You had a great photographer. :)
Posted by: Nicole at May 27, 2009 03:56 PM
wow, those look amazing as do all your wedding creations.
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Posted by: Louise at June 21, 2009 08:59 PM