My Big, Fat, CAMO Wedding (aka: Weddings Harney County Style!)

So one day Candace called to tell me about a new wedding cake order she has been given & if I would be willing to help her. I have dedicated many a post to our culinary feats and the fact that I Love being her baking apprentice. This cake, however, was very different from anything we had done before. The couple came in with their cake topper and a description of what they wanted the cake to be like: "James Bond meets Harney County" They want camo colored fondant...yeah I said CAMO, with edible branches & leaves and to top it off (no pun intended) with their Bride & Groom Bond cake topper. Well, we discussed, planned, did a practice run & shook our heads the entire time. For a cake it looks fine, for a gun convention it's fine, even for a grooms cake it's fine, but a WEDDING cake?!? Come on!

 Here is the finished product. The camo fondant, the falling chocolate leaves and the camo duct taped pillars (Candace told the bride that she would have to buy her own cake pillars to camo-duct tape because she wasn't going to do that with hers)

 Our tasteful wedding cake topper. If this was used on a James Bond themed cake I could see it, but......white ruffles and camo?

 If you are thinking this cake stood out like a sore thumb you are very, very, sadly, wrong. It went perfectly with the rest of the decor.....

 The buffett table. Yeah, that's an animals head hanging over the buffet table with hunting bows to add flair

 It keeps getting better! To stay with our theme of hunting party...I mean wedding reception we add some camo ballons, table runners and if that doesn't set the mood please note the "woodsy" backdrop. I should have taken pictures of the center pieces: Animal antlers with pine bows and sald & pepper shakers....

 I wanted to get a picture of me and Candace with the cake so I asked one of the reception attendies to take a picture. It should have given me warning that when the woman was "looking at me", but really her eyes were cockeyed, that this wasn't the person to hand the camera to. Oh well, now I have my souviener picture entitled "Why a Cockeyed Person Shouldn't be Handed a Camera"

One of the aunts at the reception asked me what I thought about the decor and how I reacted when they said camo. The nicest thing I could come up with was, "Now that I see the cake in it's element it really brings the reception theme together"

After running out of the church hall, trying to supress my laughter I wished that I had taken a good picture of the chocolate leaves that I made for the cake (that was my job). It really was alot of fun. Here are a few that were left over and they are as yummy as they look. Oh! Did I tell you that the groom & groomsmen had camo ties & vests on? Ohh and that the bride had a white camo wedding dress? (I'm kidding about that, but after the pictures you believed me right?)

On a sad note: Candace will be moving at the begining of the summer *sniff* sniff* Honestly I'm in deinal over the whole thing, but on a Happy Note: this horrid cake is not the last cake we will be making together - we have the RS Party ....it's going to be beautiful...just you wait!