And yes I am very excited! Secretary by day, Cake Maker by night makes me a prime example of a super efficient organised bride to be with an eye for design and a passion for cake! Or an OCD Bridezilla who likes cake. Either one, I don't mind because I am so excited I couldn't care less!
But do you know what that means?? The creation of "Stuff"! Shiney things! Pretty dresses! And my very own wedding cake!
Oh no.
I need to design and make my own wedding cake.
How does a cake designer design their own cake?
I am officially stuck. Since Mr Mc proposed to his cake lady last April The Cake has been swimming round my mind. I still have a year to go until the big day, but I have already spent a year trying to design something I love!
Don't get me wrong I love every cake I make as I have vowed never to make a wedding cake I don't like as the unspeakable once happened... It was my second or third wedding cake and I met with the bride and groom and listened to their ideas which were extremely old fashioned, but in the naff side of tradition rather than the retro or quirky. I didn't want to sway their ideas to something more aesthetic as that's not what I do/did. It was their wedding, their ideas and their tastes and it was my job to create an edible centrepiece to capture the essence of their big day... However, when I finished the cake, all I could think was "I've created a monster". It was awful. Hideous even. Mr Mc looked at it with that kind of face you make when you smell something truly awful. I actually cried. I didn't want to face the bride and groom with the cake as I thought I will have ruined their big day!
I didn't sleep very well that night, but it was for no apparent reason as when I cringingly presented it to them the bride and groom gasped. They blummin loved it. The bride jumped on me hugging the lifeforce out of me! I could have passed out from the surge of relief I felt! But from that exact moment I decided that I would NEVER agree to make a cake I wasn't 100% happy with... selfish? possibly, business suicide? maybe, but the stress just isn't worth it.
Getting back on track though... How do I design my own cake?
Do I go for something understated and so simple in design it just screams elegance? Something weird and wacky? Or something which is a statement piece, to take centre stage?
Long gone are the days where a wedding cake is 2 or 3 cakes with white rock hard icing with pillars in between each tier with a plastic bride and groom shoved on top.... nooooo nowadays a wedding cake is almost a fashion statement. Its a centrepiece, or a sugary creation which ties up the general theme of the wedding in a creation of sugar!
Im not making this any easier for myself am I? *sigh*
