lydiapurple
01-29-2009, 01:05 AM
Several members here know me from elsewhere, where I went on hiatus to recover from a house flood, nurse a swollen leg and make a wedding cake. Anyway, you have been asking how the cake went so here goes.
Here's how NOT to make a cake:
1. Don't use a recipe you have never tried before and expect it to work the way you want it to.
2. Don't carve two layers that go together seperately or you may just try to assemble them backwards and have the top one crumble into itty bitty pieces!
3. Don't assume that any wedding cake is "simple" to do.
4. Don't read the recipe for the caramel mousse filling after the cake is all ready to be assembled only to find out it will take 3 hours because of cooling the different stages.
5. Don't leave your gumpaste flowers until the night before because they won't set in time and will fall apart when you try to paint them!
6. Don't try out a new piping tip in bright red icing on the nice white fondant.
7. Don't try to compensate for one cake being higher than the other because you will most likely overcompensate even more than the original difference!
8. Finally, don't attempt the cake at all when you are ill with a sinus infection, have a leg that is swollen and are on heavy pain meds!
The cake was delivered, barely on time and the bride's mother seemed okay with it. I was so sick and DH was exhausted from helping me and prepping a room for laying hardwood and had to work a graveyard shift, so we didn't stay for the reception. I haven't talked to the bride yet. She is....er was a good friend! :oops:
I will post pictures when I can get them off the camera!
Here's how NOT to make a cake:
1. Don't use a recipe you have never tried before and expect it to work the way you want it to.
2. Don't carve two layers that go together seperately or you may just try to assemble them backwards and have the top one crumble into itty bitty pieces!
3. Don't assume that any wedding cake is "simple" to do.
4. Don't read the recipe for the caramel mousse filling after the cake is all ready to be assembled only to find out it will take 3 hours because of cooling the different stages.
5. Don't leave your gumpaste flowers until the night before because they won't set in time and will fall apart when you try to paint them!
6. Don't try out a new piping tip in bright red icing on the nice white fondant.
7. Don't try to compensate for one cake being higher than the other because you will most likely overcompensate even more than the original difference!
8. Finally, don't attempt the cake at all when you are ill with a sinus infection, have a leg that is swollen and are on heavy pain meds!
The cake was delivered, barely on time and the bride's mother seemed okay with it. I was so sick and DH was exhausted from helping me and prepping a room for laying hardwood and had to work a graveyard shift, so we didn't stay for the reception. I haven't talked to the bride yet. She is....er was a good friend! :oops:
I will post pictures when I can get them off the camera!