Let Them Eat Cake, 2010!!!!

I always look forward every year to "Let Them Eat Cake", a charity wedding cake competition and cake tasting event that supports City of Hope. It was held at the gorgeous Loews Hotel in Philadelphia, and as always (this was my third year) it was so fun to look at everyone's works of art and meet some great people from the area, all milling around and getting sick on over 35 pieces of cake. haha. Mark Kingsdorf of Queen of Hearts Wedding Consultants and others did a wonderful job, as always, setting up and running this awesome event.

The theme this year was "A Wedding Through a Child's Eyes". It was SO difficult to think of what to do...initially I thought of doing a princess or castle...but I really don't like doing super girly fancy stuff...and besides I thought everyone else would think of it. (I guess everyone thought everyone else would do it, because nobody did!!!!) Then I thought about doing candy....but that is not very wedding-ish, even though its like my favorite subject matter ever....thought about doing legos, but I was too lazy to make all those mind-numbing blocks.... so I reached back to my absolute all-time favorite childhood character/author for my inspiration....

Presenting:

The Cat in the Hat came BACK!!!! This time he came bearing a four tiered wedding cake for a precious little Who-couple who were (are?) crazily in love:

As usual, the fish was trying desperately to hold things together and keep his sanity at the same time.

The top tier was real cake, the other three tiers were dummies for the sake of the show. The fishbowl was styrofoam...the fish was rice krispy treats...and the Cat in the Hat is made out of like two whole batches of rice krispy treats! The little Who-couple was made by hand out of gumpaste. They captured my heart somehow and now they are sitting on my dresser in my room. :-)

I didn't win anything this year, but there's always next year! I will say you totally need to check out the Cake Art Studio on Facebook to see her fairy themed cake, which won "Most Artistic". Days of work went into her creation, and the little gumpaste fairies were just gorgeous. I wonder if she has that on her dresser in her bedroom? She should... :-)

As a bonus, I got to experience the Reading Terminal Market for the first time . Wow. Now THAT was an experience...but the cajun food my husband and I settled on was outSTANDing. Yeah...I'll be back!

Until NEXT year!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!