Jenny emailed us a photo with the concept for her cake. It was cute and whimsical with a cute couple made of fondant as the topper; Joanne loved it right away.
The next step was adapting the inspiration to their wedding: their colours were purple and green.
Jenny came over a couple of weeks before their wedding and we blended the fondant together so that we could make sure to match the fondant colours with those of the wedding.
Now, what you need to know is that this wasn't just any wedding. This was a beautiful, small wedding (40 guests), all to be spent outdoors, on a private island in Lake Huron.
This meant good things, and not so good things.
Good thing: with so few guests, a 10" round base for the cake would be sufficient to feed everyone, so the top two tiers could be make in advance on Styrofoam, and travel reasonably well.
Not so good things: not only would we have to bake the cake in Markham, and travel ~2-3 hours in our car, in 30 degree (Celsius) heat, but once we arrived where we were staying, we would have to build the cake and transport it by power boat to the private island! STRESS!
The cake is a chocolate pound cake (it's more solid, so easier to transport than the moist chocolate cake we usually make) with vanilla buttercream and a fresh strawberry spread between the three layers of cake. It was pretty yummi.
Soooo... this is how it turned out!
We were really pleased with the way it turned out. It tasted delicious and looked really great with the decor. It was the most stressful transport of a cake in our cake career, so far, but it was worth it; people seemed to really enjoy it.
In the end, though, what made the day so great was the beautiful couple saying "I do"!
Congrats, Jenny & Greg!
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