Val’s Cake (Finally!)

All right, all right. Without further adieu, here are some shots of the cake I made for Val and Fede. Lightsey Farm peaches with organic vanilla-bean buttercream and a touch of peach brandy:

Applause for the new Norises!

So, Val is Argentine and Fede is Italian. There is this incredible cake-related tradition in Argentina I had never heard of before, and I thought I knew all the cake lore! Instead of a bouquet toss, all the single ladies (all the single ladies) gather ’round the cake and pull charms – basically milagros – from the cake. I had to meet with Val to plan engineering the hiding of the charms so that we wouldn’t have a cakewreck with all those feisty females battling for the ring. We had other cute little charms such as a turtle (guess, slow-to-the-altar?), a baby (mm-hmm), an airplane and some woodland animals.