Woo!!! so! Last week was a craaaaaaayyyyyy-zy week! :)
My sisters friends got married on saturday. They attended my sisters wedding that I made my first, ever!, wedding cake for! They loved the cake, thus asking me to do their wedding cake! This was truly such an honor! When I bake stuff and people taste it and tell me they love it, I always think they're just saying it to be nice... but this was an amazing validation for me. That, fuck yeah, my shit was good! :)
I was so excited to do this project... and so terribly terribly terribly nervous! So, I met with the couple at the end of winter? Just before spring? It was forever ago! I met with them and we went over the flavors they wanted for their cake, and how they wanted it to look. A couple of months went by and I did a test run of the recipe. I have Martha Stewarts Wedding Cake book...so, the couple wanted a pound cake with an almondy feel to it. I tweaked Marthas pound cake recipe and incorporated some almond flour with it. The taste test I did was one recipe with almond flour and one with almond extract. They liked the one with almond flour.
The final of what they wanted was this: almond pound cake, pastry cream, raspberry jam, vanilla bean buttercream, 2 tiers, spacer, seasonal berries on each tier, natural spatula looking feel to the buttercream around the cake.
Rewind to last monday. Monday morning I bought all the ingredients needed.... here's the total of what was needed for a 3 layered 12 and 10 in cake:
Cake
2# butter
12 1/3 c cake flour
1/3 + 1/4 c almond flour
7 1/2 tbsp baking powder
1 1/4 tsp salt
3c + 10tbsp milk
5 tbsp vanilla extract
8 3/4 c sugar
30 egg whites
Pastry Cream
1qt milk
1 c sugar
1/2 c cornstarch
4 eggs
4 egg yolks
8 tbsp butter
Vanilla Bean Buttercream
3# butter
3 3/4 c sugar
15 egg whites
2 1/4 tbsp vanilla bean paste
Crazy hu?? So, i shopped on Monday. Tuesday Morning and evening (before and after work), I made 2 12in cakes. Wednesday, afternoon/evening I made the 10in cake and the pastry cream. Thursday, I cut the cake layers (kinda took the day off from any baking). Friday (i had off of work specifically to complete this :) ), I assembled the cakes, made the buttercream, crumb coated them, and final coated them.
I was exhausted!!! There were nights where I was tossing and turning, because I was so nervous and hoping and praying all would go accordingly! In the end everything went smoothly and worked out really well! My sister came over friday night to help me bring it to the couples house. They were anxiously waiting the arrival of their cake, super cute.
I only took a few pictures during the cake making process.... here are a few of them, along with the final! By the way, I must add, I didn't take a final picture, because I completely forgot, and plus, they put the berries on day of so I can't take credit for the lovely arrangement.
Picture time baby!!!
(I really wish there was a more user friendly way to upload pics on here! ) UGH!We've got Pastry Cream, Buttercream, first layer, rasp. jam, second layer with pastry cream, then third layer, crumb coating, and then the finished product!
(these two pics below are the beautiful creations my sister and I did with the scraps. To the left is my sisters and to the right is mine :) )
The Verdict?? My sis was at the wedding, they invited me to the reception part but I was too nervous to see the cutting of the cake and everyone eating it! Anyways, my sister reported back that it was a success! Everyone loved it and there's a shit ton left over! Woot!
That's the end to this wedding cake fairytale!
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