Yesterday, my husband and I celebrated our first wedding anniversary and he took me out for a special dinner, for which he did all the planning. Score! So while I didn't cook anything yesterday I do still have a little something for you to feast your eyes on today.
On our anniversary, naturally I thought of our wedding. And, in light of this blog, more specifically I thought about our wedding cake. Our cake was gorgeous. I may be biased, but you can judge for yourself from the picture below. Side note: all I can hear in my head right now is Julia Roberts’ voice in ‘Steel Magnolias’ bragging about, ‘My reception! MY reception!’ Thankfully, our reception did not include a bleeding armadillo groom’s cake.
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| Cutting our cake at our wedding |
Our cake was baked by the incredibly talented Anne Heap and her team at Pink Cake Box. Please visit her site and check out her amazing cakes and other goodies at www.pinkcakebox.com. PS - the flowers on top - those are NOT real; they were all sugar flowers artfully crafted by Anne!! It was not only beautiful, it was also beyond decadent and delicious to the taste. We had four tiers: red velvet cake with lemon cream cheese frosting, chocolate cake with peanut butter and cookies and cream frosting, coconut cake with lemon buttercream frosting, and finally another layer of the chocolate combo as the tier. So indulgent, but hey, it’s a wedding cake. My husband and I each had one and only one bite at the wedding - the bite we served each other when we cut it. A spare piece of cake could not be found the rest of the night as our guests ate it all. Some requested seconds, and others even requested to taste the other flavors they hadn’t been served!
Instead of properly preserving the top tier to eat on our first anniversary, as is a widespread tradition, the next day hubs and I dug in and ate as much as we liked. We destroyed it, but man, was that cake good! I digress, but here comes the point of this story so hang on a few sentences more. Since our remaining tier is half-eaten and freezer-burned, I decided to try to recreate it, and I use the word 'recreate' loosely. Friday, I tested out a recipe for chocolate cake with peanut butter frosting (it was a little tricky to make so I'm not posting it here). It didn’t look nearly as pretty as our wedding cake, but it was delicious and tasting it brought us back to those happy moments we shared that day.
And here, finally, is the point: bake something special for someone you love and enjoy it together today!
xoxo
Chef AP
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| My version of our chocolate cake with peanut butter frosting |
Love the blog AP! Happy Anniversary to you and DJ. I'm hoping you can inspire me to get in the kitchen more and actually cook instead of just prepping and cleaning up. Looking forward to reading your posts.
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