do you ever assume that because your mother can do something well, somehow you can too?
I do,
I did,
I don't know that I ever will again.
everyone knows mom makes beautiful cakes. heck all the food mom makes is beautiful. i was asked to make a wedding cake for a girl i am supposed to visit teach but do not. we are friends with her family. it actually did not go as bad as i anticipated, luckily i had mom on strict orders to answer her phone immediately all weekend if i was calling and she did, thank you mum. you were wonderful cake life support!
although I think I made her nervous when I asked “what temperature do you cook the cake at?”
mum said, “Beth are you kidding me?”
I replied “MOM, don’t you teach special ed?”
“yes but I didn’t know this was sped cooking.”
I told her to pretend it was.
at first the requests from the bride were as simple as the little town we live in,
"i don really care as long as it doesn taste bad and looks ok"
(re-read that with a southern accent),
yeah now you got it.
then…a week before the blessed day she says that she has tasted a cake that she loves and wants for her wedding cake and could she come over and have me taste it and figure out what it is. I suggested she call the baker of the cake and just ask her what it was and then tell me.
so in the end we had a three-tiered coconut cake with coconut “icing” that I thought tasted very good. even tyler liked it and that is a very good sign because his usual opinion of food is “fine”! I know, how could I have married a man who doesn’t say things like “its to die for” in reference to food?
in the end, I was glad to do it to see if I truly could, (I figured if it had been a huge disaster I would only have had to live with the embarrassment for a few more weeks because we are moving soon)
but I realized something in the process; no one is born with cake decorating genes. too bad. I wish I had been born with that one and maybe a sewing gene too. the old adage is true: practice makes perfect. I just don’t think I need to be perfect at this one. we’ll see
Oh Bethie, it is beautiful! Just like you!
ReplyDeleteHEY you did great! I love it and the flowers look gorgeous. You need to give yourself more credit!
ReplyDeleteIt looks GREAT!! I am awful at making cakes but I was bound and determined to make Carter's birthday cake this year. It didn't come out too bad, but it was nothing fantastic. Yours looks AWESOME!! Good job!
ReplyDeleteThat is so funny you posted that. I just volunteered to make our neice's wedding cake with that same exact attitude "It's in the genes to be good at weddings... cakes, decorating, catering, etc." I am sorely disappointed to hear that it is not. Oh well. I just hope mine will turn out even half as beautiful as yours. I would be happy with that :)
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