It's been, like, forever.... *ashamed-toe-in-dirt-expression* I know. *cough*
Anyway!
Remember that wedding cake I made in May? Here's a photo
I made that. Magical, yes?
Here's another:
I made two ten inch cakes besides the actual wedding cake so that at the party, people could enjoy cake and look at it too. Plus there were a lot of peeps at that party. It was a lot of cake. So, clearly, it was a very successful party. :)
Here's me.
Tada! A cake.
It took me like, a week! And a few weeks of planning and prep before that. Here's a few photos of production, if you're interested. (I know you are.)
Mix the flour and baking powders, salt, etc. Mix butter and sugar and eggs. Mix them together and add some buttermilk. Repeat like 12 times. Phew.
For the 32 cups of buttercream, I did this step a lot:
Eggwhites to fluffy clouds. I then stabilized them with sugar-water boiled to the hard candy stage.
But before I could whip egg whites, I had to separate them from their yolky side-kicks...
yigh....It took like 4 dozen eggs!
And then- I added butter.
LOTS OF BUTTER
Like, a gajillion pounds of butter.
And homemade vanilla extract, measured in a heart tablespoon, for extra love:
The process made like, a gajillion cakes...
But it also made about the same number of dishes...
That's like, hardly a fraction of the dishes I ended up doing. Thankfully I baked the whole thing at my church's kitchen and had these ENORMOUS sinks to use. I could have bathed while I did the dishes, if I was so inclined....(I wasn't)
Then I crumb coated each and every layer.
Imagine this, times 10.
And then filling and stacking:
2 ten inch cakes 2 layers each, and then the wedding cake, each with two layers, a 12 inch tier, an 8 inch tier, a 6 inch tier....Do the math. That's a lot of cake.
And a lot of frosting and filling....
But it was made with love, and I had a helpful sister along!
She read to me and kept the tea coming. So I was able to pull through.
See that stove clock? It says 9:34. That's pm. We pulled some late nights on this project....
The final step was assemblation. That's a real word you know...
Dowels keep it from collapsing into itself. Very important, despite not being edible...
And then, I frosted it!
And decorated it!
Have another look at that beauty. Really, just look and be inspired by awe and majesty.
And have some cake, it's on me.
No really, I had a lot of cake on me by the end of the whole thing.
It was really good. I ate a lot of it. And received lots of compliments. And ate lots of cake.
The end
P.s I'm 40 weeks pregnant and 2 days, now, and the contractions this morning amounted to nothing special. Just thought you might like to know. I'd post a picture, but my new camera is still being figured out...
p.p.s Georgia also took quite a few of these photos, but I'm not sure which ones. Give her credit, though.
p.p.p.s I'm now realizing how many times I used the word "like" in this post. Forgive me, but I kind of think it sounds good, so I'm not editing it.
