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Yesterday marked the one year anniversary of “Prince Charming’s” and my marriage.  One year ago we, or rather my mother since we were off celebrating our wedding night, carefully packed the top tier of our wedding cake away in the freezer to await our first anniversary.  Why did we do this?  Did we really want to eat one year old cake? Well, to be perfectly honest the only answer I could have given you was because it was traditional…. Read more…

The honeymoon is over and it is time to get back to life as usual, which means it is time to resume posting here (one of the good things about coming back!).

This wedding cake turned out to be quite the saga of triumphs and tregedies.  I wish I had been able to chronicle it better for you, but I really did not have the time in the midst of all the final wedding preparations.  Before mom and I got started I just did not fully grasp the scope of the project.  I had selected all of the cake sizes and I had even seen the pans arranged to look like the finished cake, but it wasn’t until we started baking the various tiers and putting them together that I realized how large the cake truly was.

Mom had a schedule for us to follow that should have resulted in a relatively smooth path to completion, however, the cake just did not want to cooperate…

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We have a winner!

After the disappointment of the Deep Dark Rich Chocolate Fudge cake, we had to scramble to try out new recipes.  Would you believe we got lucky with the very first one we tried?  This recipe is adapted from one that I found on Epicurious.  I was a little hesitant to try it because the user reviews were a mixed bag ranging from people claiming it was a dry crumbly disaster to people claiming it was the best chocolate cake they had ever made or tasted.

I decided it probably fell somewhere in the middle and hoped that it fell closer to the positve side of that bell curve. I chose to give it a whirl, after all, what is the worst that could happen?  But, I did take the Epicurious reader comments to heart and adjusted the recipe accordingly.

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If you remember, in my first post I said I would be sharing my trials and tribulations as well as my successes on this blog.  Despite the absolutely divine sounding name of this cake, it unfortunately does fall into the “trials and tribulations” category.

First, I’d like give you all a little bit of background on why I was attempting this cake.  In just under two weeks “Prince Charming” and I are getting married.  I’m sure you’re wondering now what that has to do with attempting a new cake recipe.  Well, back when “Prince Charming” proposed, I asked my mother if we could make my wedding cake as a  mother-daughter project and she agreed (Thank you mom!).  My mother is absolutely amazing in the kitchen and she has done some wedding and anniversary cakes in the past (including my little brother’s wedding cake) that have been just phenomenal.

Since my entire wedding is Fairy Tale themed, you can imagine that the cake I designed isn’t exactly simple or straight forward…

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