My Second Wedding Cake........and last!

 My niece, Julie announced that she was engaged and her wedding date is April 6th.....

two weeks notice!

Her mother was hustling to put this wedding together, her first.

I would call to see how things were going, "I need to find someone to do the cake"

With my arm twisting behind my back I offered to make the cake.

I wanted to help but I was not sure I could produce a nice cake that
Julie would like.
 I spent 3 days baking 10 cake layers, making frosting and fondant and
the day before the wedding assembling the cake.
The fondant on the first cake looked awful, so I tore the fondant off
and tossed into the garbage.
That is when I started loosing confidence that I could not do this.
Troy suggested warming the fondant and that helped a lot.....thanks Troy.
By the fourth cake I was finally getting the hang of working the fondant.
The corners looked beautiful.
I wish I could have started all over with the other layers.
You almost need to make a practice cake.

The corners were very hard to smoothly lay the fondant over and so the
first layers corner's looked awful and I
conceded that I had no choice but to deliver a
hideous looking cake.
I wanted to cry and quit.
It looked as though a powder sugar bomb went off in the kitchen.
My friend, who does cakes encouraged me I could do it and so I finished.
It started to come together and I began to be excited.
The fondant ribbon hid a lot of bad corners.
Troy even helped me make paste pearls.
It looked really nice when finished, I was pleased and confident to present
it at the wedding.
However, Friday morning we awoke to a snow blizzard.
What is an 1 1/2 hr drive under normal conditions was a 3 hr. drive,
white knuckle and bumper to bumper traffic.
Troy had me drive while he kept a hand on the cake.
By the time we reached SLC the cake began to loose it's strength,
 shifting and leaning.
Coming into SLC were a couple of deep chuck holes not missed.
Before leaving the parking garage at the temple Troy and I said
another prayer before heading up to the Capital Bld.
We turned towards the Capital Bld. and it was straight UP!
I turned around to find a street less inclined. 

"W" is for Wright

I was sick and done.

There was nothing more I could do, but just hope it was still upright

by the time we delivered it at the reception.

Everyone was very gracious and kind with their compliments, I just wished

they could have seen it at it's best.

I tried!