E's mom made the wedding cake layers and meringue layers on Wednesday. She literally spent the entire day baking. Thursday morning E and I made the layers for the groom's cake. Thursday afternoon and evening were spent assembling the each tier of the wedding cake, assembling the groom's cake, and crumb coating everything. Friday morning and afternoon everything got frosted and the groom's cake was decorated. Friday evening after the rehearsal dinner the tiers of the wedding cake got stacked and decorated.
The wedding cake had three square tiers - 16", 12", and 8". Each tier had 2 layers of almond cake, with a layer of either raspberry or apricot preserves, almond meringue, and another layer of preserves between the cake layers. Frosting was a butter rum flavored swiss meringue buttercream. The fruit decorations were made from marzipan.
The groom's cake was a 12" square lemon cake, 2 layers, filled with lemon curd, frosted with lemon cream cheese frosting, and decorated with candied lemon slices.
At one point I carried the fully assembled and decorated groom's cake from E's apartment to J's (they live in the same complex, but different apartments) to store in his fridge, and my arms were TIRED by time I got over there. That cake was HEAVY. Considering the groom's cake was the same size as the middle tier of the wedding cake, I can only imagine how heavy the fully assembled wedding cake was. The almond cake was really dense, and between both cakes we used 132 eggs and 21 pounds of butter. I'm sure Paula Deen would be proud.
A couple of our bigger/stronger guy friends actually came over to E's Saturday afternoon to move the wedding cake from her fridge in her second floor apartment to the car for transport across town to the wedding venue. Miraculously transportation was entirely uneventful with no trauma to the cakes or people's nerves.
The wedding was lots of fun, E looked gorgeous, and they're finally married! Yay!
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| Lemon cake batter. Lots of it. |
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| How many brides make their own wedding cake? |
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| One layer of the medium tier, with the layer of raspberry preserves being added on top of the almond meringue |
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| The medium tier - cake, preserves (you can only see the frosting dam holding them in), meringue, more preserves, the second cake layer, and blobs of frosting for crumb coating |
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| Crumb coated bottom layer |
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| All the wedding cake layers setting up in E's fridge |
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| The finished groom's cake |
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| The finished wedding cake |
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