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Cream cheese frosting, fresh raspberries and blueberries, and a cake that my wife think tastes like sugar cookies. The recipe actually come from Ina Garten in the Barefoot Contessa Cookbook. Although it requires some adjusting to cook properly at the altitude where I live.

This followed only days after finishing my cousin's wedding cake, finishing and intense spot of cake making.

I'm still recovering. And avoiding the kitchen.

Posted by on August 2, 2007 9:47 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)

And the final product. The colors were lime green and shades of blue. Thanks to my wife's efforts I was able to add a perfecting coordinated ribbon at the bottom of each layer. This is how it was presented at the reception.

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This is what greeted me as I delivered the cake and all the other guests as they came to the reception to honor the bride and groom. If you hadn't guessed, my uncle is an artist. And a good one.

I took this picture to show the colors of choice for the evening. The cake I made was designed to match this color theme.

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One of my few remaining unmarried cousins got married last month. As a wedding present for her, I offered to make her wedding cake. Actually I offered it via her parents, without letting her know. It was a surprise on the day wedding. She didn't know she was getting it.

At this point the cake is covered in fondant and ready for the final decoration. I stopped to take a picture alongside the picture that was in her announcement. I think I came pretty close to matching her choice of green.

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The small one. This is companion to the large bird cake.

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