Well, I took on my biggest project yet which had a few bumps along the way but it all worked out and everyone was loved the result. The project was a wedding reception last weekend. The couple had gotten married on Valentine's Day but were having an informal June reception. The schedule posed a unique problem. The reception was an open house that lasted all day with both lunch and dinner being served. Since people would come and go before the cake was scheduled to be cut at 7:00pm. The solution we came up with was to serve petit fours during the day with lunch and save the cake for the cutting in the evening. So there were 35 petit fours and a two layer cake. Both were lemon cake with raspberry preserves, lemon Italian meringue buttercream, and fresh raspberries. The cake is covered in fondant and decorated with gumpaste and real flowers. The petit fours were covered in poured fondant and decorated with the same gumpaste flowers. The bride is a big time pirate fan and likes chocolate cake therefore there was also a bride's cake (instead of a groom's) which was pirate themed and chocolate with a brown sugar Italian meringue buttercream.
