Wedding Cake

Back in September Stuart's sister got married and to make a long story short
we made her wedding cake.
The top and bottom layers were chocolate with a raspberry filling and white ganache.
And the center layers were white cake with a lemon custard and white ganache.

We both enjoy culinary and confectionery things and so it was fun to be able to do this together.
We joke that it was the wedding cake that ruined our marriage. Haha
It took a lot of planning, altering, patience, time, ........ etc. however, we did it AND were able to transport it 45 minutes along a windy road alongside the river with out any problems.

I had read that you can bake the cake beforehand and freeze it but I wanted it to be as fresh as possible so I started baking it at 8 am the morning before. By the time Stuart got home from school that night I was STILL baking. (Each layer is two cakes and when they are that big it takes a lot of time to cook. Not to mention how many batches goes into just one layer. It's a LOT of cake) Poor Kohen didn't get much play time with Mommy that day.
We finally got the cakes baked but I think around midnight is when we started rolling fondant for the first layer. Our table was soooo wobbly and two of the legs wouldn't even stay in, so we kicked out the other two legs and did it on the floor.
(Thus the picture of the table on the floor)
(Note: I am a huge germ freak and made sure everything stayed super sanitary
...so don't get too grossed out)
You can't know all the work and stress that goes into a cake unless you've done one. Fondant, baking, transferring, trimming, frosting, stenciling, and oh man, lining up the cake to put in the dowels. So when it's 4 am you can see why we called it what we did.
It wasn't perfect but we were happy to be done with it.
Next summer we have a couple more we have been asked to do and we're excited to use our new skills and tricks to see what else we can create.

I'm sure you can only guess who took a bite out of the apple above. Yep. My little mister.
I was in charge of some decorating and had used fake apples as part of my decor. Kohen apparently thought they were real. What was funny is that I didn't notice it until I went to pack everything and saw this apple with a chomp mark in it. We didn't even know he knew what that was since we had always given him sliced apples prior to that.

Kohen and his cousin (the two boys in suits) had fun dancing the night away. But he and cousin Talo didn't think snuggles from Auntie Marta and Uncle Shaun were too bad either.
Kohen was a little cake hound. He had been begging for the cake he saw on the counter for the last couple days so when it came time to serve cake at the wedding he was all over that!

The pole Kohen has was actually a polynesian stick (forgot the name) that Stuart's brother had carved for one of their performances. Kohen thought it was pretty cool.