09.05.24 Wedding Cake
On the Runway
Three days before the wedding I spent the entire day in one corner of our kitchen. I was applying icing, smoothing icing, reapplying icing and resmoothing icing. I thought to myself, “I cannot mess this up! The wedding is in a couple of days! Oh, I hope this looks good!” By the end of the day the icing was finished. I was exhausted, but I was not done yet…
The next day, after precariously transporting the cake to the venue, I spent the morning decorating the cake. Finally, the cake was finished.
The night of the wedding, while I studied the cake from afar, I commented to my sister “You know, whenever I do something, I tend to find an element that I am not satisfied with and criticize it, but not with this.” I was satisfied.
Stay tuned for the upcoming 12.27.24 Wedding cake!
She Said Yes!
On a mountaintop in Ruidoso, NM, Ryan Mowell proposed to Phoebe Atkinson. After a few moments of awestruck silence, she said yes!
When the happy couple arrived home, they began wedding planning. When it came time for them to choose a cake, they asked me to make it for them. I was amazed.
I had been known as a baker for several years, but a wedding cake seemed beyond me. “Can I really do this? What if I mess it up? I cannot believe they just asked me that!”
After the initial nerves wore off, I decided that I could.
The first stage of making the cake was a trial run. Three months before the big day, my not-so-enthusiastic brother was presented with a wedding cake on his birthday. We barely ate half of the top tier. The remaining cake was parsed between a cousin’s birthday party, Sunday afternoons, and the delighted chickens.
The cake itself was made a week before the wedding. It took several batches and all day, but much of the grunt work had been done. Then came the intimidating part.
