Congratulations Tinx & Minx!!!!!
Well we promised another cake post in our speech so here are a few more photos of the assembly of the wedding cake. Hover over each photo to see the captions.
You can see in the photo of Tinx and Minx cutting the cake at the top of this post that we also put a few beautiful white gardenia’s on top. Thanks again to Mum for escorting the cakes from Sydney to Queensland and to Peter and Adele for letting us take over their kitchen and fridge to put this together. I was thinking since we had already baked the cakes it would take 1 hour, max 2 hours to assemble it. Nope we took our time, laughed, stirred in a heap of love and took photos along the way and it ending up taking just over 4 hours.
We were pretty excited that the problem we had in our trial cake was solved. When the top tier was lifted off the bottom tier to serve it up, it didn’t take the ganache from the bottom tier with it. Yay!!!! We put a piece of baking paper under the top tier and the dowels stuck up higher than they did in the trial so the top tier was slightly raised. Trying to position the top tier onto the bottom tier was the hardest part of this project because I only had one shot to get it right otherwise it would have messed up the smooth layer of ganache.
Since there was no cake leftover, not even the extra four 8″ cakes we made, I think it’s OK to say that we NAILED IT!
In addition to making the wedding cake we also made Mango Kulfi. You can get the recipe here.
