a wedding cake
I am doing a friend's wedding cake, and well, as anyone who knows me can tell you, weddings terrify me most of all. Because they are such an important day. And the cake plays a very key role in the light of that day. I know i am not perfect...far from it. and I think that is why is scares me. Because I think a cake should be perfect for the wedding day.
But with that said, I AM doing a wedding cake in October. TWO actually! Both of them for friends.
One will be on Halloween, or the pagan holiday of Samhain. The other will be early October at an SCA event in Oklahoma for the lovely lady_katheryn, as she marries and starts on her new life.
I haven't talked to K much about her cake yet, I need to do that (hey lady! I'll be shooting you an email here soon! heh!). But I have been doing a LOT of research on the Samhain cake. Because frankly I didn't want to disappoint, and I didn't want to come across as a knave that was happy to go along with a steriotype of what the world thinks of a pagan. Ummm, lemmie see. Pentagrams and crows! Yeah, that's it! ALL Pagans LOVE that stuff, don't they??!?!?! Yeah, not so much.
I came across a recipe for these little brooms that are actually pretzels and peanut butter cookies. The pretzel is the stick, then you use a fork to make the peanut butter cookie dough look like broom bristles. After they are baked, you decorate the broom with chocolate at the joint. Evidently jumping and decorating the broom is a tradition. So I thought it would be jsut something fun. These will be around the base of the bottom layer of the cake.
The second and third layers are going to be completely hand painted. I will cover the whole thing in a beautifully deep blue fondant, and I will airbrush the blue with whites and silver, etc., to give it an etherial feel kinda like this:
But instead of the tombstones I want them to be hand painted trees. In the starkness of the end of fall. I want them to feel like dark, yet clear and beautiful all at the same time.
trees like this: (please ignore the cartoony witches at the bottom)
But with a feel like this:
or this:
at the base of the second layer, where the forest of trees begin, I want to make gourds, acrons, fallen leaves in various colours, some shorn wheat, etc. Littering the "forest" floor.
The topper is unsure. If they have a topper, also in that second layer on the "floor" I will include red flowers and a set of antlers. If not, I will make a set of antlers and some red flowers as the topper.
The tradition of Samhain is to break bread with family and friends and loved ones. Preferably the darker the bread the better. So no matter what flavour of cake they choose, I will colour it to a dark state, so as to be that "bread" they share with their friends and family on their wedding, on the celebration of Samhain.
But with that said, I AM doing a wedding cake in October. TWO actually! Both of them for friends.
One will be on Halloween, or the pagan holiday of Samhain. The other will be early October at an SCA event in Oklahoma for the lovely lady_katheryn, as she marries and starts on her new life.
I haven't talked to K much about her cake yet, I need to do that (hey lady! I'll be shooting you an email here soon! heh!). But I have been doing a LOT of research on the Samhain cake. Because frankly I didn't want to disappoint, and I didn't want to come across as a knave that was happy to go along with a steriotype of what the world thinks of a pagan. Ummm, lemmie see. Pentagrams and crows! Yeah, that's it! ALL Pagans LOVE that stuff, don't they??!?!?! Yeah, not so much.
I came across a recipe for these little brooms that are actually pretzels and peanut butter cookies. The pretzel is the stick, then you use a fork to make the peanut butter cookie dough look like broom bristles. After they are baked, you decorate the broom with chocolate at the joint. Evidently jumping and decorating the broom is a tradition. So I thought it would be jsut something fun. These will be around the base of the bottom layer of the cake.
The second and third layers are going to be completely hand painted. I will cover the whole thing in a beautifully deep blue fondant, and I will airbrush the blue with whites and silver, etc., to give it an etherial feel kinda like this:
But instead of the tombstones I want them to be hand painted trees. In the starkness of the end of fall. I want them to feel like dark, yet clear and beautiful all at the same time.
trees like this: (please ignore the cartoony witches at the bottom)
But with a feel like this:
or this:
at the base of the second layer, where the forest of trees begin, I want to make gourds, acrons, fallen leaves in various colours, some shorn wheat, etc. Littering the "forest" floor.
The topper is unsure. If they have a topper, also in that second layer on the "floor" I will include red flowers and a set of antlers. If not, I will make a set of antlers and some red flowers as the topper.
The tradition of Samhain is to break bread with family and friends and loved ones. Preferably the darker the bread the better. So no matter what flavour of cake they choose, I will colour it to a dark state, so as to be that "bread" they share with their friends and family on their wedding, on the celebration of Samhain.