The promised photo docu-drama from beginning to end:
More cake batter than I have ever made at one time in my entire life. I made triple chocolate fudge cake with chocolate fudge filling and buttercream icing.
Getting ready to go in the oven--eeeeek!
They actually turned out, what do you know?!?
I made the base of the cake out of rice crispies (instead of styrofoam) and oh.my.goodness. It took 6 bags of marshmallows, 4 boxes of rice crispies, 1 1/2 lbs. of butter and 6 teaspoons of my precious Madagascar vanilla. I had no idea. Next time I'll probably just use the styrofoam, but at least the rice crispies were edible!
All wrapped and ready for the next phase.
I cut and filled the cakes with chocolate fudge filling.
Icing the cake with butter & vanilla buttercream. Well, it was supposed to be butter and vanilla buttercream, but I accidently added a nice little lemony zest and wasn't about to throw away all that icing. It actually tasted great and the next batch that went over the rice crispies really was the requested butter and vanilla buttercream. :)
Icing the rice crispies, and no, I did not really lick the spatula!
Then Anita (the main reason why the cake looks good) came over the night before the wedding and helped make my icing smooth and roll out the fondant.
Hooray, thank you Anita!!!! Now they are covered in fondant and just waiting to make the 1+ hour drive to the reception the next morning.
I never had such a nerve-racking ride. I was quite glad Heaven answered my pleas and the cakes were all intact when we got there.
We set the cakes and stuff out and were ready to go. We left for the wedding and then came back to decorate the cake for the reception afterwards.
When we came back I put in the dowels, stacked the cakes and added the brown satin ribbon along the bottom of each cake.
Then I added her sculpture along with a couple of thinner ribbons that matched the bridesmaid's dresses running across the top.
It's ready to go out onto the table and put on the rose petals in her wedding colors! Miss J said I look "freaky" in this picture, sorry. :)
Side view of the masterpiece.
Other side view (don't mind the iron and ironing board for the tablecloths).
So, with Heaven's (and Anita's) help, we had ourselves a nice little wedding cake. :) Whew!
