Nickie & Matt's Wedding Cake

This past weekend I had the honor of making my best friends Nickie & Matt's wedding cake!

Here is the final product! But first I will go into more details...

3 days prior to Saturday I began baking, and baking, and baking! 11 white cakes (made from scratch may I add) later...

My main workstation during the 3 days of baking! Thank you to my brother-in-law, David, for letting me create a huge mess in your kitchen!

His double ovens---They saved me so much time! Not sure about that Royals apron though!

Cake ingredients...

51 eggs, 10 lb flour, 8 lb sugar, 3 lb crisco, 1 gallon of milk to name a few

Filling ingredients...

3 Jello Mixes

3 quarts of heavy whipping cream

Butter cream ingredients...

1 lb butter

7 pounds of powdered sugar!

Middle tier baking...

bottom tier cooling...

bottom tier stacked with filling...

5 batches of butter cream... icing the crumb coat (or "dirty icing" as cake boss says)

after putting on the second butter cream coating and adding the stencil to the middle tier...

close up on the stencil...

two love birds!!

thank you to everyone who helped this cake happen!!!
my sous chef kelly, mom, dad & aunt erin for calming my stress & transporting the cake
steve for doing a bazillion dishes and for helping me with everything
krista, steph & becky for hanging out (and helping a bit) while I iced the cakes
david for letting me take over your kitchen and making a mess!
nickie & matt for letting me a part of their special day by making this cake!

My Birthday Bronwen Weber St. Louis Cardinals Cake

It's almost too much to believe! My amazing friends Lisa & Matthew got me another cake from the Frosted Art Bakery for my birthday!! 2 years in a row! I am such a lucky girl!

My cake was St. Louis Cardinals themed!!

I loved it!!!

Lisa & I with the cake right before we cut into the cake and ate it! It was sooooo good!! Great job Bronwen :) And thank you Lisa!!!