Fall weddings

Its a beautiful time of the year for a wedding!!!!!  And this weekend, I had three wedding cakes to do.  One of them, I was not able to photograph because the flowers were placed after I left.

However I will post the other two simple-but-classic designs!

The first was a classic, ribbon-and-swiss-dots wedding cake for The Inn at Lambertville Station:

The next was for a lovely outdoor wedding reception at the bride's parents' home.    I have to say, I just LOVE the look of a "Homestyle" iced cake!   I think it just looks inviting and delicious...and having the homestyle-iced tiers alternating with short, smooth-iced tiers just "made" the look, in my opinion!

Homestyle iced cakes also remind me of my childhood....I always looked at the swirled icing on the cake photo on the front of a box of cake mix.  I remember trying to swirl the canned icing on the cake to look JUST like the front of the box.   Or, I'd fork a bite, and then try to swirl the icing on the bite JUST like the advertising photo.  Somehow, it just wouldn't taste as good if the icing didn't have a fancy swirl!   So, whenever I get treated to the opportunity of doing a classic homestyle iced wedding cake, I have fond memories of those early attempts to "decorate" a cake to match the front of a cake mix box.  :-)

While we're mentally digging into those fluffy looking buttercream-covered tiers, I may as well share that the taller tiers are chocolate chip cake with three layers of milk chocolate whipped ganache filling, and the short tiers are a moist, homestyle pumpkin cake with cream cheese filling.   "I'll take one of each, please...."

I hope you are all enjoying the fall weather!!!!!