Charlottes Wedding Cake

Charlotte doing the mixing

My niece is getting married in July and asked me to make her wedding cake.  Charlotte wanted a fruit three tier cake.  Its a long time since I have done a wedding cake like that - it all seems to be sponge/ fairy cakes recently.  So back to the recipe books and I went through the lot, plus on line and a lot of emailing backwards and forwards with friends who are experts at this.  Charlotte wanted nuts in her cake which I know many will say for a wedding cake is not on, but I think we found the perfect recipe in Glamour Cakes by the wonderful Eric Lanlard.  His rich fruit cake just fitted the bill. 

Our prepared ingredients

Nearly there - it was a very long day

We are going for a 6,8 and 10inch stacked creation and he gives some really good tips on this.  As we progress (we being my niece and I ) I will show you how we are getting on.