Wedding Cakes

I'm preparing to make my roommate's wedding cake. We're looked at lots of pictures and made a few decisions multiple times and now I just need to get the ingredients. But while I've been thinking about that, I remembered that I never posted pictures of the wedding cake I did for my boss' wedding last year. This is the pictorial explanation of how I went from this:

to this:

The cake was a basic stacked tiered layer cake without separators. Each tier was a different flavor (white with raspberry filling, red velvet with chocolate filling, German chocolate, and lemon with cream cheese frosting) and covered with my go-to butter cream frosting, almond flavored. (We decided to forgo the fondant because she wanted the cake to taste really, really good.) The bottom layer was German Chocolate and since it was going to be the "load-bearing" tier, I hand mixed it with a wooden spoon.

Then I sprayed the pan with Baker's Joy, which is fantastic in every sense of the word and wrapped the pan in wet asbestos baking strips.

This makes the cake bake very flat.

I repeated these steps with the other layers, except the top most layer (lemon), I mixed with the whisk attachment on the hand mixer. I transported the cake in pieces (my sister made the sign, please excuse her for not being able to spell "transport") and constructed the tiers at the venue.

I also made four type of cookies and lemon bars. I was in baking heaven.