I got into making fancy cakes a few years back - I always liked baking, then one day I decided to make a really special cake for a friend's birthday party. It was the first time I experimented with fondant and advanced decorating techniques, and the result was very wonky and crazy, but cute. Two other friends who were at that party liked it so much that they asked me if I'd make their wedding cake! I was like, you must be drunk, but sure I'll do it!
So this is what I made for them: my first wedding cake ever! I still can't believe my friends trusted me with this responsibility, but it was a great challenge and I really had fun with it. It was butter cake with passion fruit buttercream, covered in white fondant with little polka dots. I made the topper by covering styrofoam balls with fondant. A friend and I drove this cake (with the five tiers unstacked) from NYC to Pennsylvania in a heatwave. We loaded the cake boxes into his parents' minivan, covered them with dry ice, then covered the whole heap with a bunch of blankets. I was a nervous wreck that the cakes were going to overheat and fall apart, but they were cool as cucumbers when we arrived at the wedding site. I can't believe we pulled it off.
This was a little baby shower cake for a boy-to-be.
This cake is silly, but it's still one of my favorites. A giant chocolate D for my friend D. This one was chocolate cake with white filling, Hostess-cupcake style.
A girly birthday cake for a friend. I've never gotten into writing on my cakes, but I love adding an initial whenever possible.
A simple cake was requested for this wedding, which was on a boat. From what I hear, it survived the waves intact! (The cake that is, not the boat.)
For some rock n roll friends, a peppermint patty-inspired wedding cake: chocolate cake with mint chocolate ganache filling. This one was totally over the top - that's silver leaf applied on the fondant, with a beaded metal branch thingy I made on the middle tier.
That's me, the proud baker! It really is fun to show up at a party with a big crazy cake.
4 comments:
The cakes are soooooooo beautiful, I wish I had a piece of that chocolate D right now !!!!! ummm!! HOHO cake.
What a gift you have! Your cakes are beautiful. Wish I were closer to NYC...
I was over your place the day you were making the cake with the passion fruit buttercream and you had all these scraps that I kept eating. They were SOOOO good and I ate and ate and ate until I thought I would fall on the floor in a butter cream induced food coma. It was awesome.
I love your very first tall white wedding cake. Wonky - ha! great word - and really, really fabulous!
I'm thinking maybe I know who got the "M" cake - and maybe I had a slice (or two)? Yum. Or did my "M" get polka dots?
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