My first wedding cakes for my first client!
I know, I was absent from the blog in the past days, but I was utterly justified: I was working on an order from my very first client for her wedding!
Two main pieces of information to analyze here:
1) My first client: so apparently at work even people from other teams now know I “make cakes” and the word is spreading… 😛
2) Wedding: so not only was this my first chance to make a cake for somebody I didn’t really know, but it was also a challenging opportunity to make big wedding cakes for 60 people! I mean, the cakes for somebody’s most important day! :-O
Of course I was totally stressed and the risk of failure was high: the storage, decoration, and transportation were very critical. And the planning of activities was not be neglected either.
Who said I couldn’t fit 2 huge cakes in my fridge? Then there wasn’t space for anything else, though…
Moreover the field was totally new for me! Wedding cakes are totally different from normal cakes:
- First of all they are covered and decorated with sugar paste, which I had never used before
- Sugar paste cannot be refrigerated, so basically I could not use egg-based creams for the filling (which accounted for 99% of my recipes)
- Finally wedding cakes are tall and heavy, so they must be resistant and hold their shape at room temperature for hours
The order was for 2 chocolate and vanilla cakes for 60 people + 80 macarons (chocolate, coconut and salted caramel). Although I had started preparing some elements last Wednesday, I was eventually running late on Saturday afternoon! I had to simplify the decoration that I had in mind, in order to finish the cakes for the wedding dinner. I was a bit upset, but seeing the result of my work on the display was very rewarding in the end! 🙂
Luckily enough I had my good friend Gillian who helped me for the transportation, we had a great teamwork! She is also my official tester/pilot customer by the way! 😛 Forever thankful! 🙂
And finally, thanks to Claudine and Marie who crazily trusted me and gave me this great opportunity! 🙂
