the cake

Mmmmmmm! Cakes!

Apparently in the US they use sponge cakes for their weddings - no fruit and no marzipan, so I have of course put my foot down and said that I'm going to have a marzipan covered fruit cake if it kills me. I plan to make my own(!?) to save about $500 or whatever a cake costs these days. I think what I might do is have a fruit and sponge combo - nice big fruit cake on the bottom and a couple of smaller sponges on the top. That way I'll keep everyone happy! I might actually cheat and buy the sponges (sponges have never been my forte). Oooo, maybe I can have one chocolate and one regular sponge...hmmmm. Anyway, as I'm no professional at cake decorating, I need a plan for making a simple cake look beautiful without all the expertise. I love the rainbow butterflies cake on the Martha Stewart picture below and I've found a wonderful lady on Etsy that sells them in all different shapes, sizes and colours. They look so pretty! I've also found this cake that looks so gorgeous and would be pretty easy to recreate, using silk flowers. I'm having a lot of fun looking at cakes and it's much less stressful than bridesmaid dresses! Any ideas, send them my way! x

martha

Well, I am now a fully fledged member of the Stewart empire, Martha that is. She is a domestic goddess and crafter extraordinaire and if anyone can help me pull this off, she can! Her website is full of DIY ideas, not your average crafty crap but gorgeous and classy easy to make decorations and things to do in your wedding - including some truly AMAZING cake recipes. Might just have to have a tea and cake reception! (seriously, you have got to take a look at the cake recipes!). This sounds amazing...

It may seem like a break from tradition to serve more than one cake at a wedding, but it's actually quite an old custom. At medieval Anglo-Saxon weddings, many small cakes would be served in a mountainous pile, and eventually pocketed for the journey home. Sometimes the bride and groom attempted to kiss over this pile of cakes.... Five cakes are festooned with tuile cookies bearing words of love. Toasted-coconut frosting coats featherlight Angel's Food Cake. An Almond-Paved Dacquoise Cake has rich crunchy almond meringue, chocolate ganache, and thin layers of cake inside. A traditional French Croquembouche is built from profiteroles filled with passion-fruit custard; it has a halo of spun sugar. Read more at Marthastewartweddings.com: Five Little Cakes 

YUMMY!!

LOVE these - might have to make a bunch of these beauties! They'd look so pretty hanging from the trees, blowing in the breeze.

Also this bouquet is brilliant, might end up just having paper flowers for everything!

Watch out Hope and Tina - might be dragging you in for duties!

Anyway, that's way too many exclamation marks for one posting.