Tuesday, November 18, 2008

Cake Tuesday: oak leaves.

Fall continues here on Cake Tuesday (despite the 80+ degree days we're having), as does my chocolate wrap fixation. (Seriously, delivering a cake to a beach wedding this weekend, people were SUNBATHING, and SWIMMING WITHOUT WETSUITS, which is sort of unheard of ANY time of year here, certainly in mid-November.)

At any rate, we're all still embracing fall, regardless. This gorgeous wedding, at one of my all-time favorite venues, had rustic boxes of apple varieties on each table, and oak leaves and acorns playing a prominent role in the wedding materials.

The cake was bittersweet chocolate with a lemon curd buttercream, wrapped in bittersweet chocolate. The leaves and acorns were all cut and formed by hand, with the acorns a slightly lighter gold than their tops, and the leaves a mix of gold and copper. I have this great wooden pedestal stand I got years ago through the Martha Stewart website, and I've been looking for ages for an additional one and can't find it anywhere. I paint this one all sorts of colors to match different weddings - here the gold brightened the dark wood corner and really helped tie the cake into the rest of the room.

The couple hired terrific photographers, so hopefully I can link to some much better pictures soon!