Wedding Cake

[poliphilo]

The wedding is two days away. The cake is Ruth and Ailz's project but I find I'm getting drawn in.

Yesterday Ailz and I made a ton of white chocolate icing. You melt the chocolate down, add gelatine and leave it to stand for a day. White chocolate doesn't taste much like chocolate- more like condensed milk. Ruth is coming round this afternoon and the cake is going to be constructed- tier upon tier- and then the white chocolate gloop icing will be poured all over it. This will be the moment of truth. 

The final stage- this is the bride's idea and I think/hope she's going to see to it- is that the cake will be decorated with roses. Not pretend roses- real roses. I find this hard to visualise.

And I've had it intimated to me that I'm going to be expected to decorate the surface of the cake with pictures of cats outlined in chocolate buttons. There are three problems here. One: I can't draw cats. Two: How on earth do you draw anything with buttons? Three: Won't the pictures be hidden by the roses?  Bah- they can't be serious- can they?

Comments

[heleninwales.livejournal.com]

If the bride intends to use complete roses (rather than petals), do check them very very carefully for tiny wildlife.

At the end-of-term lunch a few weeks ago a collegue regaled us all with the story of how, at one family wedding, she ended up flicking hundreds of greenfly off the cake with a tiny brush. Hilarious in hindsight, but not so funny at the time as the deadline for the unveiling of the wonderful cake -- decorated with fresh roses supplied by a well-meaning uncle -- loomed ever nearer.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

Oh dear...

I'll pass the warning on.

Lets hope she's buying from a florist.

[halfmoon-mollie.livejournal.com]

Yes, I was going to mention that when helping a friend set UP a wedding cake there was another cake in the room - for a different wedding, of course. That one was decorated with Buttercream icing and REAL daisies. And a ton of ants. Real flowers are pretty, but there is that possiblity.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

Ants? Oh no!

[oakmouse]

Well, at least ants taste like raisins. ;) I don't want to think about what aphids or greenfly would taste like.

what a gorgeous kitty!

[halfmoon-mollie.livejournal.com]

Pardon the interruption, but since I"m not a friend I couldn't post to your journal. Is the kitty yours?

Re: what a gorgeous kitty!

[oakmouse]

Nope, unfortunately I'm terribly allergic and can't keep cats (although I used to when I was younger and less reactive). She belongs to good friends of mine. She really is gorgeous, isn't she? I love her to pieces.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

You've eaten ants?

[oakmouse]

Yep! When I was about six or so, some novelty candy manufacturer marketed boxes of chocolate-covered ants and a neighbor kid bought or was given one. We all gathered round to have a taste and were devastatingly disappointed to find out that they tasted just like chocolate-covered raisins. We really thought they'd be nasty and they were...well, pretty ordinary.

[mokie]

The florist is (hereabouts anyway) the worst place you can buy plants that are going to be used in any sort of edible setting, since their interest is in keeping things visually appealing, and they do that with chemicals.

Local grocers might be a better bet.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

Ah....

Well, it's out of my hands. Nick, the bride, will already have made her arrangements.

I'll keep my fingers crossed.