I came across food blogs completely by accident last night while attemping to find a really good recipe for a 'dense robust coconut almond cake with almond buttercream frosting' (that was the exact search I did in google), and this wonderful search provided a new found world to explore - that of food blogs. I was so excited and started thinking that I too wanted to start a blog -so here it is.....

A few years ago - when my then fiancee and I(now he's my darling husband) begun planning our wedding - one of the most exciting things to plan for was the cake. I had gone online and searched and searched and found some sites in which the style of the cakes seemed to be what I was envisioning - a beautiful tiered cake finished off with pale pink and cream fondant - I knew the look I wanted - now came time for the tasting.
There was a wedding planner & guide event scheduled for a few weeks out - and when the day arrived to go to the event - I was mainly interested in trying out all the cake samples. So - round & round we went - sampling some beautifully decorated fondant cakes (for some reason I just had this fondant thing stuck in my head)- only to take a bite and find that the taste was more like something out of a box mix that was sitting on a grocery store shelf instead of a cake that was made from scratch with real pure indulgent ingredients. Well - not one to get discourged - we continued - and came across a lady wearing a white bakers hat surrounded by the cutest most whimsical cakes with thick creamy frosting that was just begging to be tried. We sampled two cakes- I think one was called an Elvis cake - which featured a blending of peanut butter and bananas in the cake - I think it has a creamy peanut butter filling, and the other one was a gingerbread cake - decorated with the most whimsical ginderbread cookies and delicous rich buttercream frosting (it was an event held in December). The taste of these cakes was so amazing - that my fondant dreams went out the door - and it was onto making sure this lady was available to bake our wedding cake. She was - and we ended up with the most delicious cake - not to mention a beautifully decorated cake as well.
Our wedding was a unique event - my husband is from India and I'm from the States - so we were planning on combining our traditions - including the cuisines that we served - so the cake was no exception. We wanted flavors that everyone would enjoy - and we came up with an idea for a three tiered cake (plus an extra cake that we presented to my brother who was going off to Iraq in a couple of weeks - that cake was decorated with stars & stripes) Our wedding cake was a three tiered cake covered in rich vanilla cream colored buttercream with accents of pink scrolls and silver dragees to provide a bit of sparkle. We came up with three different cake flavors - strawberry cake with a filling of rich vanilla buttercream, chocolate cake - with a filling of dark chocolate ganashe, and a delightful lady baltimore cake - this was a cake that I had never heard of before - but the baker said it was a family recipe that she used to make the cake - and when we sampled the cake and filling - we knew that this had to be one of the layers of our cake. We thought that the indian guests coming to the wedding would appreciate the flavours of the lady baltimore cake - it had dried fruits and toasted chopped nuts blended into the filling. Turned out - that this was a favorite of a lot of the guests - including my husband & I. So - what better way to start off a food blog - than to make a lady baltimore cake.............now it's off to search for a recipe and go shopping for the ingredients........

Even though I just started blogging in 07 - I figured I would include some of the photos I've taken over the past few years of the items I've created......

Here are some pictures of our wonderful wedding.........