I was so honored when Erin asked me to make her wedding cake. Erin wanted her wedding cake to be the dessert at her wedding, and therefore the taste was the most important thing to her. I have to admit, I was so nervous for the months leading up to it. But when I did that practice birthday cake, it calmed me down. I thought of the reason we have cake - there is something to celebrate. I also remembered reading in the "Eat Me" cookbook that when Xanthe Milton makes her wedding cakes, she thought of love and wishing a lifelong of love and happiness to the special couple. So while I was baking, I did that. I thought of how happy Rob and Erin make eachother, and that they deserved a life full of love with eachother! I started making the cakes on the Friday morning at 9:30. I made 8 batches of Martha Stewart's Wedding cake: http://www.marthastewartweddings.com/recipe/favorite-yellow-cake The last pan of cake came out of the oven at 6 p.m. Friday night.
After the cakes were done, I made that wonderful chocolate mousse, which I used in my "NO" cake, as this was going to be the filling in the cakes. I multiplied the recipe by 4, and hoped it would be enough mousse for the cake. I wrapped everything up and placed in the fridge, in order for everything to set properly.
I got up at 5:30 Saturday morning and began the beginning stages of the buttercream. I made 3 batches of the milk and flour and allowed to cool for an hour, before completing the buttercream.
This recipe is a finicky one. But I had a lot of practice with it over the past few months, so it no longer intimidates me. If you follow it exactly, it makes the perfect buttercream. I was now ready to fill and ice the cakes! Each slab of cake would consist of 4 layers of cake and 3 layers of chocolate mousse.
The top layer of the cake was a 6", followed by an 8" and the base was a 12". I calculated that we would get 32 pieces from the 8" and 48 pieces from the 12". I made an extra 8" and 12" in order to get 160 pieces of wedding cake. The 2 extra slabs were the exact same as the wedding cake itself. The 4 batches of mousse and 3 batches of buttercream turned out to be the perfect amount! With the 5 boxes of cakes, my girlfriend (and date for the wedding) Paula and I drove to the wedding. Paula turned out to be a very helpful assistant, and helped in 'eyeing' everything with me and setting up the wedding cake.
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good job april.....i love how you match the flowers on the cake....awesome!!!!
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The cake was amazing and beautiful and you look like a blonde BOMBSHELL!!!!!
ReplyDeleteCongrats Apes! It was a HUGE success. It was not only beautiful but also delicious! xx Cat
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