Cake 2: Vanilla Cake with Lemon Filling

The cake baking, wedding planning and flower shopping weekend is over. We had many successful ventures and some provided us a few challenges (namely the cakes). It is a good thing we decided to make two cakes - as the altitude put up a little fight.

Our first challenge was an unexpected one. After mixing the batter, baking and cooling the cakes, we found removing the cakes from the pans to be quite a task. Normally I swear by my Wilton cake pans and Wilton Bake Easy spray - at home my cakes literally fall out of the pans. However we had to work to get these cakes out of the pans and ended up with quite the plate of "crumbs" in the process.

Once the cakes were cooled we applied the filling (which turned out great) and stacked the layers. We began frosting the cake and about half way through we realized we were not going to have enough frosting...and that the frosting was melting. The melting was 100% my fault for frosting the cake on the counter right on top of the running dishwasher. We rushed the melting cake outside to cool it and decided to let it cool overnight.


The finished cake turned out great. It took more effort than normal to get here - but we were very happy with the resulting look and taste of the cake. To decorate the cake we purchase an orchid that we may use in the floral arrangements.




We cut into the cake at the groom's parents house, and the happy couple practiced cutting the cake as well.