Wedding - 29 days and counting

[neonlyte]

My daughter gets married 4 weeks tomorrow. Needless to say, I'm getting nervous.

Trial runs of dress - gorgeous beyond belief
Cake - down to your's truly, we all agreed the trial version was too rich so I've another filling to experiment with next weekend.
Speech - written, run through with SO imminent, no doubt she'll delete the jokes then use them herself.
Suit - bought, now if I could just shed a few kilo's...

The second most important talking point about this wedding is the Chief Bridesman... He's a great guy and unbelievable up for the role... I just wonder if he's going to wear a dress.

 

[buxxxom]

My daughter gets married 4 weeks tomorrow. Needless to say, I'm getting nervous.

Trial runs of dress - gorgeous beyond belief
Cake - down to your's truly, we all agreed the trial version was too rich so I've another filling to experiment with next weekend.
Speech - written, run through with SO imminent, no doubt she'll delete the jokes then use them herself.
Suit - bought, now if I could just shed a few kilo's...

The second most important talking point about this wedding is the Chief Bridesman... He's a great guy and unbelievable up for the role... I just wonder if he's going to wear a dress.

Congratulations to your daughter and good luck to you! As an avid baker/cake decorator myself, I wish you well with the cake, especially since you have all that other wedding stuff going on.

 

[neonlyte]

Congratulations to your daughter and good luck to you! As an avid baker/cake decorator myself, I wish you well with the cake, especially since you have all that other wedding stuff going on.

Actually, they've been good to me, the wedding is all but organised. The cake is a hazlenut meringue layered with praline butter cream and raspberry mousse, I'm going to add a raspberry coulis to cut the sweetness. It's my daughters favourite cake since migrane quashed her chocolate craving.

 

[R. Richard]

My daughter gets married 4 weeks tomorrow. Needless to say, I'm getting nervous.

Suit - bought, now if I could just shed a few kilo's...

Try shedding pounds instead. They are much easier to shed than kilos.

 

[neonlyte]

Try shedding pounds instead. They are much easier to shed than kilos.

I can't... it's a metric suit

 

[MagicaPractica]

Actually, they've been good to me, the wedding is all but organised. The cake is a hazlenut meringue layered with praline butter cream and raspberry mousse, I'm going to add a raspberry coulis to cut the sweetness. It's my daughters favourite cake since migrane quashed her chocolate craving.

*drools* Wow, and here I am sweating over a devil's food cake with buttercream frosting for my sis-in-laws birthday. (I'm not big on buttercream so haven't really learned to make it.)

For the Chief Bridesman, my sis-in-laws wore a red tuxedo jacket over black slacks, white shirt and black tie. Her wedding colors were black and red. Maybe something in that vein?

 

[Vermilion]

Congratulations to your daughter and good luck to you! As an avid baker/cake decorator myself, I wish you well with the cake, especially since you have all that other wedding stuff going on.

I'm making the cake for my wedding. I must be nuts...

Good luck with your creation mate!
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[rgraham666]

Congratulations to your daughter and her intended, neon.

 

[Vermilion]

*drools* Wow, and here I am sweating over a devil's food cake with buttercream frosting for my sis-in-laws birthday. (I'm not big on buttercream so haven't really learned to make it.)

Butter cream is easy peasy - half butter, a quarter icing sugar (do you guys call it powdered sugar?) and I like to use a quarter caster sugar to create a bit of texture, but you can just use all powdered sugar.

So half fat, half sugar. Let the butter come to room temp, cut into cubes, then beat together with a wooden spoon if you're a masochist, or with egg-beaters if you like an easy life!

PM me if you need to do flavours! My fave is white chocolate with a chocolate sponge - yum!

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[neonlyte]

I'm making the cake for my wedding. I must be nuts...

Good luck with your creation mate!
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Wow... you're either very brave or have ice in your veins

 

[matriarch]

I can't... it's a metric suit

*grin*

 

[neonlyte]

*drools* Wow, and here I am sweating over a devil's food cake with buttercream frosting for my sis-in-laws birthday. (I'm not big on buttercream so haven't really learned to make it.)

For the Chief Bridesman, my sis-in-laws wore a red tuxedo jacket over black slacks, white shirt and black tie. Her wedding colors were black and red. Maybe something in that vein?

Oh I think the ensemble is all worked through... he'll be delightful.

Mil's buttercream recipe is easy to do, master that and experiment out from there. The praline buttercream is toasted hazlenuts or almonds, roughly chopped, cooked for a couple of minutes in a sugar syrup (equal volumes of water and sugar) just on the point of turning golden, turn it out onto foil or baking parchment to set then pulferize to a powder in a food processor. Make the butter cream but only use half the sugar and add the praline powder to sweeten. Taste for sweetness.

 

[neonlyte]

Congratulations to your daughter and her intended, neon.

Thank's Rob, I'm sure they will be fine. Her former boyfriend we'd have happily lynched, this one seems to cast from an entirely different mould.

 

[MagicaPractica]

Oh I think the ensemble is all worked through... he'll be delightful.

Mil's buttercream recipe is easy to do, master that and experiment out from there. The praline buttercream is toasted hazlenuts or almonds, roughly chopped, cooked for a couple of minutes in a sugar syrup (equal volumes of water and sugar) just on the point of turning golden, turn it out onto foil or baking parchment to set then pulferize to a powder in a food processor. Make the butter cream but only use half the sugar and add the praline powder to sweeten. Taste for sweetness.

Thanks! Would pecans work or are they not a hard enough nut? I know she likes those quite well.

 

[MagicaPractica]

Butter cream is easy peasy - half butter, a quarter icing sugar (do you guys call it powdered sugar?) and I like to use a quarter caster sugar to create a bit of texture, but you can just use all powdered sugar.

So half fat, half sugar. Let the butter come to room temp, cut into cubes, then beat together with a wooden spoon if you're a masochist, or with egg-beaters if you like an easy life!

PM me if you need to do flavours! My fave is white chocolate with a chocolate sponge - yum!

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Thanks! Much appreciated!

 

[Guest]

Congratulations!

 

[neonlyte]

Thanks! Would pecans work or are they not a hard enough nut? I know she likes those quite well.

I doubt it. Pecans contain too much oil, when you pulferize them you'll get a clogged mess rather than a powder.

 

[neonlyte]

Congratulations!

Many thanks.

 

[Lauren Hynde]

I doubt it. Pecans contain too much oil, when you pulferize them you'll get a clogged mess rather than a powder.

Neon! Congratulations on the wedding and all that, but first thing's first. Charley is desperate to know and you're the only one who can help her. Where the hell can we find proper pecans around these parts?

 

[neonlyte]

Neon! Congratulations on the wedding and all that, but first thing's first. Charley is desperate to know and you're the only one who can help her. Where the hell can we find proper pecans around these parts?

If you can't find them in a health food store, try MAKRO - though you'll need someone with a cash and carry card. Hope you are both well, got to rush, plane to catch. Be back after the wedding and will be in 'the north' for a few days in early November. We will definitely fix something up. 's

 

[Lauren Hynde]

If you can't find them in a health food store, try MAKRO - though you'll need someone with a cash and carry card. Hope you are both well, got to rush, plane to catch. Be back after the wedding and will be in 'the north' for a few days in early November. We will definitely fix something up. 's

Thanks! Good luck with everything. We'll be waiting for you.