Wedding Season
Summer is the season of weddings. It's also the season of baking. Baking for weddings. Two of my favourite girls got married in the last month (my sister, Heat, and my mate, Tennille). Don't be silly. Not to each other. To their husbands.
My sister is not a very girly girl. That's an understatement. She's actually never outgrown the tomboy thing. She lives in jeans and t-shirts and has a hunting license. She shoots at deer. So when I was speaking to her a week or so before her outdoor, hiking wedding I jokingly asked whether she'd made any plans in the direction of a wedding cake. Of course not. So I volunteered to make one for her. When I enquired as to theme, flavour, shape, colour, I was met with a blank stare (inasmuch as it's possible to get a blank stare over email). I told her, "fine it's a pink cake for you then!" She made the mistake of issuing a challenge. She dared me to make a pink cake. Mwaaa haa haa haa.
I present to you. Quite possibly the girliest, pinkest cake of all time for my sister the tomboy. Why yes. That IS edible glitter on the cake.
I can't recall how I ended up volunteering to make little cookie replicas of my freind tennille's wedding cake for her guests. But that's what I did. I used the same cookie dough I made snowflakes out of at Christmas, but with plain vanilla flavouring instead of lavender and lemon. The trick to making the dark chocolate royal icing is to use a very good duch process cocoa, not brown food colouring.
See the resemblance?
Those cakes are beautiful! I've never been married, but as far as I can tell, the cake is the best part of the wedding ;)
Posted by:Natalia | July 27, 2006 at 09:59 PM
Wow! That's what a wedding cake should be! Forever that will be such a wonderful story in your family. What a lucky sister she is.
And what a lucky friend Tennille is. Terrific cookies and the resemblance is perfect.
Great job and beautiful post!
Posted by:Tanna | July 27, 2006 at 10:28 PM
Wow! Both cakes - and all the cookies - look amazing! I love the girly cake, that's incredibly cute :)
Posted by:Anne | July 28, 2006 at 01:05 AM
Just beautiful, Lyn. Truly. Madly. Beautiful.
Posted by:Alanna | July 28, 2006 at 06:23 AM
These cakes are gorgeous !
Posted by:Christell | July 28, 2006 at 07:17 AM
But did you notice that the pink theme then predominated? Endangered Pink Lady's Slippers on the path? Some sort of cosmic conspiracy, as fas as I'm concerned.
You should have mentioned that the cake was a marvellously rich chocolate, though!
:)
Posted by:Heat | July 28, 2006 at 09:17 AM
Gorgeous! I want to get married again!
Posted by:Jen | July 28, 2006 at 09:23 AM
Where were you when I was trying to convince my darling pig-headed daughter that there were lovely, yummy wedding cakes out there and that "Sex in a Pan" wasn't one?
Posted by:Jena | July 28, 2006 at 11:33 AM
Lynette - you amaze me. wow!
Hey - I could make one of those - I have the silver balls!
Posted by:sam | July 28, 2006 at 11:42 AM
You freakin' ROCK. I love that cake. But I am all about pink, anyway.
Posted by:Tana | July 28, 2006 at 12:43 PM
Jena,
Sex in a pan. Really?? I LOVE that stuff. Although maybe not so much for a wedding cake. I mean, it is kind of gloopy and not very attractive.
Posted by:lyn | July 28, 2006 at 12:57 PM
wow, all SexInAPan comments aside, is there anything you CAN'T do? Just beautiful. xoxo
Posted by:mireille | July 28, 2006 at 06:17 PM
Dear god, those cakes are fantastic! The girly one is quite simply adorable - I think if it were mine, I wouldn't be able to cut into it. Well, perhaps the lure of cake would've done it ;)
Posted by:Ellie | July 28, 2006 at 06:35 PM
LOVE the girly cake - too adorable!
Posted by:Cate O'Malley | July 28, 2006 at 09:22 PM
Wow! Two of the most fun and fashionable wedding cakes I've seen. Most impressive.
Posted by:May | July 29, 2006 at 03:23 PM
O MY GOD, YOU'VE MADE THE CUTEST CAKE EVER!!
IT'S MARZIPIN, RIGHT? (OR ICING?)
Hope I will ever be able to make and post something as impressive as that on my blog!
LOVE IT (AND YOUR BLOG!) :)
Posted by:Julia | August 03, 2006 at 06:36 AM
Julia: it's actually rolled fondant icing. You ice the cake with buttercream first and then roll out the fondant and smooth it over the top. Wilton.com has great instructions for doing it. I didn't make the fondant myself as I have never had luck with that - mine always goes crystally. I purchased premade fondant from Wilton and coloured it myself.
Posted by:lyn | August 03, 2006 at 09:24 AM
Lyn - both cakes are gorgeous, and I wouldn't mind having the super-girly pink one for my wedding (and I'm not too big on pink usually, have one pink t-shirt in my whole wardrobe, I guess). Cookies are cute, too!
Posted by:Pille | August 13, 2006 at 05:44 AM
Great cakes and 2 girls can get married now, so its not that silly of a thought!!!
Posted by:Randi | August 17, 2006 at 08:17 PM
that pink cake is the most over-the-top thing I´ve ever seen. I´m really impressed that someone could produce that all by themselves.
Posted by:lobstersquad | August 25, 2006 at 02:49 AM