Sunday, 10 May 2015

Italian wedding cake – test cake


I have learned something new: Butter cream frosting MELTS in warm weather.  

Even sitting on a table waiting 10 minutes to be served for high tea in a garden on a mild Danish spring afternoon in May (not warm at all really) is sufficient to melt the frosting and have the decoration fall off the cake.

This of course will not do at a wedding. Not at all!!! And I am glad I made this test cake (and saw the result), as I would otherwise have attempted to serve a cake covered in butter cream frosting at a wedding in Tuscany Italy in September……


Also, the roses will need to be different shades of pink and different sizes in order to create a harmonious effect.


Well, basically I just have a lot to learn, and then I can begin to figure out how to transport wedding cake more than 1300 kilometres from Copenhagen to Tuscany….

The cake was a sponge cake with chocolate and marzipan added to the dough for taste. 

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