Last weekend's wedding was a beautiful, magical affair. It was a ton of work, but every minute was so much fun. I'm unbelievably sad it's all over. This was the perfect match of creativity with the decorations and dessert making, along with my organizational skills and planning and details and checklists. While I'm not a Type A, I'm probably an A-, or at least a solid B+. I love this kind of stuff and feel blessed a large portion of my "real" job has some aspects of these things. I love being creative, but software and technology isn't exactly the same as weddings and special events...
Unfortunately the day of the wedding was so chaotic I didn't get any pictures of the venue (I know, I suck), but the bride and groom's fab photographer will be sharing photos which I will be sure to link to. And my friend Claud took some snapshots I plan on stealing from her as well. :) You won't believe the wonderful array of appetizers she put together for the event. Delish!
Until I snag those photos, I'll share a few from my kitchen, taken along the way.
As you know, I love love love to bake. My style is rustic. I'm not into "perfection", meaning, the cookie cutter type things you would find in a grocery store bakery. I'm not all about the crazy cakes shaped into motorcycles and the perfectly shaped cookies and the too too tarts. Can I do those things? Sure. But it's not REAL to me. For me, baked goods equal hearth and home. I want my goodies to remind people of the treats their grandmother made for them. Given the rustic and vintagey feel of the wedding, I knew my baked goods would fit right in. So naturally I went all out to create a fabulous dessert table, offering a little bit of something for everyone.
The bride really wanted a formal wedding cake, but in chocolate. I fashioned together a 2-tier chocolate cake with chocolate pastry cream and a white chocolate mousselline buttercream. This buttercream recipe uses NO powdered sugar and 2 pounds of butter, and takes 2 hours to make a single batch, but it is so dreamy, it's worth every calorie and every minute. I cannot put into words how amazing it is. I then decorated the cake with nasturtiums and sugar wafer butterflies, so everything was edible. I was really happy with how it turned out. What do you think?
I also made a Mountain Dew Groom's cake, as the groom drinks Mountain Dew like it's the nectar of the gods. I love the acidy green color of the cake. And according to all who ate it, they recognized the Dew, so yay for that! :)
And let's not forget the pies in jars!
There were also pumpkin and red velvet whoopie pies, chocolate salted pecan candy, and peanut butter and chocolate crispy cookies. A little bit of everything for anyone with a sweet tooth. And now I'm hungry! :)
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