Cupcakes and Weddings….
So it seems that the world has gone cupcake mad. Cupcakes are hot! Every week there is a new cupcake shop opening, a new flavor to try and a new blog to read. It was of course Sprinkles Cupcakes that Paris Hilton requested among other things when she was released from jail (the final time).
My friend Chimena is cupcake crazy. Last week we baked over 48 vegan cupcakes from her new favorite book Vegan Cupcakes Takeover the World for her daughter Chloe’s 11th birthday. Chimena even chooses cupcakes as the focus of her blog Cupcakes single moms and so much more check it out to read about some of her cupcake adventures.
So when my sister Lynda called me from Ireland two months ago to tell me she is getting married in August talk sooner or later turned to wedding cakes.
Living in another country and only flying home for two weeks makes it difficult enough to be bridesmaid and help plan a wedding. However I would feel kind of weird if someone else made the cake. My Dad always tells the story of my poor Granny baking two tradtional 4 tiered fruitcakes for my parents and my aunts weddings. Everytime she baked a cake and turned her back some neighbor or visiting relative would sit down at the table, pour themselves a cup of tea and cut a nice big slice of fruit cake! Poor Granny would turn around too polite to say anything and start on another cake.
So with time, equipment and fear of baking those traditional 10 ton fruit cakes I have decided to bake a cupcake wedding cake. So far the plan is to make all the gum paste decorations here in San Diego and then outsource the baking of the actual cupcakes to my chef friends in Dublin. What’s a couple of dozen cupcakes between friends?
Today I will take a trip to my local cake decorating store to get some ideas. If you have cupcakes or have experience baking cakes and wedding cakes please give me some advice!!!
