My biggest challenge

So last February I promised a friend that I'd make her wedding cake. It was a fantastic experience, but I now have a complete understanding for why wedding cakes are so dang expensive!

So here's a play-by-play of the entire experience.

I made a classic white wedding cake with raspberry filling. I couldn't find a filling recipe I liked so I just took some frozen raspberries, sugar and a little corn starch to thicken it and put it on the stove. It was SUPER good. The entire cake turned out moist and wonderful. And, of course, I used my favorite buttercream frosting. Yum.


This is the top cake. Three layers with raspberry filling between each one (and a band of frosting around the edge to keep the filling contained.


Here is the top cake...four layers!


Both frosted. Fondant is icky so i worked hard at making my buttercream super smooth.


Eep! They're stacked....let me tell ya, I held my breath through this whole process. Bride wanted black ribbon around bottoms...which worked well for covering up the layer seam.


The final product! Those are fake flowers...but it still looks nice. I mounted it on a wooden pedestal at the reception and it looked very pretty.

All in all it it took close to 12 hours from start to finish. But, man oh man...it was goooood!