{"id":77436,"date":"2018-02-09T15:21:21","date_gmt":"2018-02-09T04:21:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\/public_html\/?p=77436"},"modified":"2021-06-30T09:57:07","modified_gmt":"2021-06-29T23:57:07","slug":"miniature-wedding-cake-valentines-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\/public_html\/miniature-wedding-cake-valentines-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Miniature Wedding Cake for Valentines Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<div align=center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/TX0UsGn0GPc?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Happy Valentine&#8217;s Day for Feb 14th!  <\/p>\n<p>Dave and I also just celebrated our wedding anniversary and had a lovely night out at a restaurant overlooking the city and, afterwards, we even went to the drive-in to watch a movie!  Yes, drive-ins still exist. Friends of ours looked after our kids for the evening, what a blessing.  <\/p>\n<p>A miniature wedding cake seemed perfect to mark the occasion. I also wanted to include a snippet from our wedding ceremony but all I could find was some dodgy handheld footage from the reception.  These days it seems like everyone has amazing wedding videography but when we got married it was a friend with a video camera and a tripod (if you&#8217;re lucky).  Stabilizers were so expensive they were only used on movie sets and phones didn&#8217;t come equipped with video cameras.  As you can tell, we have been happily married for quite some time \ud83d\ude00<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\/public_html\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/miniature-wedding-cake-howtocookthat-550x733.jpg\" alt=\"miniature wedding cake fondant\" width=\"550\" height=\"733\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-77441\" data-wp-pid=\"77441\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/miniature-wedding-cake-howtocookthat-550x733.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/miniature-wedding-cake-howtocookthat-300x400.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/miniature-wedding-cake-howtocookthat-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/miniature-wedding-cake-howtocookthat-768x1024.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>To make your own miniature wedding cake you will need:<\/p>\n<p><strong>My Vanilla cake recipe baked in a small cake ring<\/strong> (a small round cookie cutter will do)<br \/>\nThis makes enough for one 8&#8243; round cake tin<br \/>\n400g (14.11 ounces) caster sugar<br \/>\n195g (6.88 ounces) butter or margarine<br \/>\n200g (7.05 ounces) plain flour<br \/>\n60g (2.12 ounces) potato stach<br \/>\n1 1\/2 tsp baking powder<br \/>\n1 tsp salt<br \/>\n250mL (8.45 fluid ounces) or 1 cup milk<br \/>\n2 tablespoon brandy<br \/>\n1 Tblspn vanilla essence<br \/>\n4 eggs<\/p>\n<p><strong>Buttercream:<\/strong><br \/>\n30g (1.06 ounces) or 1\/8 cup butter<br \/>\n2\/3 cup or 75g (2.65 ounces) icing sugar (icing mixture is fine-it does not have to be pure icing sugar)<\/p>\n<p>Other:<br \/>\n100g (3.53 ounces) Fondant<br \/>\n50g (1.76 ounces) black fondant<br \/>\npink food colouring<br \/>\ngreen food colouring (to colour the fondant for the leaves)<br \/>\nmini cake board<br \/>\nmini cake stand (I made mine).<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\/public_html\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/miniature-dollhouse-wedding-cake-ann-reardon-550x413.jpg\" alt=\"mini wedding cake dollhouse\" width=\"550\" height=\"413\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-77440\" data-wp-pid=\"77440\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/miniature-dollhouse-wedding-cake-ann-reardon-550x413.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/miniature-dollhouse-wedding-cake-ann-reardon-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/miniature-dollhouse-wedding-cake-ann-reardon-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/miniature-dollhouse-wedding-cake-ann-reardon-400x300.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/miniature-dollhouse-wedding-cake-ann-reardon-1200x900-cropped.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/div>\n \n<h4 align=center>My Cookbook<\/h4>\n<p align=center>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\/public_html\/cook-crazy-sweet-creations-cookbook-ann-reardon\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"40%\" src=\"https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/hardcover-book-mockup-of-a-woman-reading-3409-el1.png\" alt=\"ann reardon crazy sweet creations cookbook\" title=\"Crazy Sweet Creations Cookbook\" style=\"opacity: 0.8; -moz-opacity: 0.8;\" class=\"fade\" \/><\/a>\n<\/br>\nStores that sell my book listed by country:  \n<a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/ARcookbook\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/bit.ly\/ARcookbook<\/a>\n<\/br>\nAll recipe quantities in the book are in grams, ounces and cups.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\/public_html\/miniature-wedding-cake-valentines-day\/\"><img width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/miniature-dollhouse-wedding-cake-ann-reardon-150x150.jpg\" class=\"alignleft tfe wp-post-image\" alt=\"mini wedding cake dollhouse\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/miniature-dollhouse-wedding-cake-ann-reardon-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/miniature-dollhouse-wedding-cake-ann-reardon-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/miniature-dollhouse-wedding-cake-ann-reardon-400x400.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/miniature-dollhouse-wedding-cake-ann-reardon-1200x1200-cropped.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" data-wp-pid=\"77440\" \/><\/a><p>Happy Valentine&#8217;s Day for Feb 14th! Dave and I also just celebrated our wedding anniversary and had a lovely night out at a restaurant overlooking the city and, afterwards, we even went to the drive-in to watch a movie! Yes, drive-ins still exist. Friends of ours looked after our kids for the evening, what a blessing. A miniature wedding cake seemed perfect to mark the occasion. I also wanted to include a snippet from our<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":77440,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[142,1652,748,3031],"tags":[2954,31,2952,1630,2775,175,952,163,2950,2951,2953,2870],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\/public_html\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77436"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\/public_html\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\/public_html\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\/public_html\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\/public_html\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77436"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\/public_html\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77436\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77509,"href":"https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\/public_html\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77436\/revisions\/77509"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\/public_html\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/77440"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\/public_html\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\/public_html\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\/public_html\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}