https://aweddingcakeblog.com/2011/07/saving-the-top-tier/ Mon, 20 Feb 2017 11:00:58 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.2.38 https://aweddingcakeblog.com/2011/07/saving-the-top-tier/#comment-2228 Mon, 01 Aug 2011 14:36:45 +0000 http://aweddingcakeblog.com/?p=1726#comment-2228 Fun memories. I was married waaay back in 1979. My aunt and my baker did wrap the cake top for me, but not to these intense standards. My new groom and I drove from MO to VA where he was stationed in the Navy. A peek in the ice chest they packed my cake in revealed it was well thawed and nothing was going to convince us to refreeze it when we got to our new home. So we bought plastic ware, and ate our top tier all the way across the Mid Atlantic. It was delicious. We were HIGH on sugar, but it was fun. On our first anniversary, I just took a photo of the cake to a local baker and asked if they would duplicate the top tier. They did that for us, so we got to keep our cake and eat it too. 😉

]]> https://aweddingcakeblog.com/2011/07/saving-the-top-tier/#comment-1949 Mon, 18 Jul 2011 17:45:17 +0000 http://aweddingcakeblog.com/?p=1726#comment-1949 Ooh – great piece! We actually did save our top tier way back in October 2001. Actually, we had a “destination wedding” of sorts – we got married in Ormond Beach, where my family lived – so my mom was tasked with preserving the top tier, since we jetted off to Paris the next day. She and my grandmother wrapped the sucker – almond cake with raspberry filling, enrobed in buttercream – within an inch of its life in plastic wrap, then foil, and then the whole parcel went into a cardboard box. We didn’t get a chance to visit with them until beyond our first anniversary – either for Thanksgiving or Christmas. But we opened the box with trepidation – and it was perfect! We enjoyed it for days! (it was kinda big for a top tier ) Thanks for the bringing back fun memories.

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