Elmo Redux

The Utah Cake

Did you know I spent 3 weeks in Utah this summer?  Just out, visiting family and seeing all of the fun sites.  Well, the Wednesday before we were to head home (Sunday morning) I went to lunch with my cousin.  Her son was getting married 2.5 weeks after I left–and somehow we got to talking about their lack of  wedding cake ordering.   So me…the maker of the cakes…pops up with this fabulous idea.  Why don’t we get together while I’m still in Utah–and make the cake?  BRILLIANT!!  Yeah, but a wedding cake sitting around for 2.5 weeks might not be the yummiest of cakes.  So I came up with Rice Krispie Treat layers on the top two tiers and then the week of the wedding the mother of the groom could make the bottom “big” tier.  I would teach her how to make and use fondant while I was there—and all she would have to do is put them together, ribbon them, and add the flowers.  She took it a step further by creating the awesome cake platform to display the cake.  So without further ado….my our wedding cake!  (Ok, mostly hers!!!)

Now, what changed after we got there…the cakes needed to sit angled on top of each other, and the pans that we had would have left the tier above hanging over the side of the tier below.  So—we ditched the middle pan and made the top tier out of the littlest pan and the middle tier out of the biggest pan, which left us needing a larger cake pan for the bottom.  So we taped off a bigger square on her counter top, and as my cousin finished a batch of krispy treats—we molded them into the square shape while they cooled.  That bottom tier alone is like 8 batches of Krispy treats!!  But doesn’t it look awesome!

I felt really bad that I had gotten the mother of the groom in charge of making the cake (as though she had nothing better to do) and then ditched her with the project as I drove back to Chicago.  But look how fast she learned!  Boy….I must really be a good teacher!