After months of preparation, this weekend we held a surprise wedding shower for my cousin’s wife-to-be. There was plenty of decorating, and of course, FOOD involved. I also made a wedding shower cake, and I will be making their wedding cake in a few weeks time, as well. I thought I would share with you a little of what was served that night.
The spread: curried asparagus bites, tapenade tomatoes, prosciutto-fig roll ups, stuffed mushrooms, goat cheese-peppercorn potatoes, asian noodle salad, mexican salad, spinach salad, orzo salad, roast beef bunwiches, tortellini skewers, chicken wings, smoked salmon crackers, shrimp on melba toast, tomato tart, bacon wrapped water chestnuts, and a big veggie platter
The cake was a white cake layered with raspberry curd and chocolate ganache, with plenty of white chocolate Italian Buttercream.
Inside shot:
Look how surprised the bride was when she turned that corner and we all shouted surprise! (She thought she was coming over for a BBQ with my brother and I)
And my mama and I:
Hello food lovers paradise!
Everything looks mouth watering good and your cake is gorgeous.
I look forward to seeing the one you make for the wedding.
Morning!
I have to do a vegan b-day cake this weekend…any suggestions??? It also had to be nut free.
btw I <3 the dress you are wearing in the picture with your mom, it's gorgeous!
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Hi Koko – Thanks for such a wonderful afternoon. It was a ton of fun, all your hard work paid off and gave Gen a fabulous day. The food was amazing, all I could think of Sunday was how much I would love to be filling another plateful of all the tasty treats! Love Lynda
Wow, what a nice surprise party…and everything sure looks awesome
You look so cute in your yellow dress, Koko. That was very sweet of you all to throw such a party and all the food looks great.
What a great feast!
(P.S. I love your dress!)
Thanks Cara!
THanks Auntie Lynda!
Thanks Juliana!
Thanks Xiaolu! Yellow is my fav colour.
Thank you Jennifer!
Everything tasted so good! You are so talented!
That picture of me coming in is hilarious, but slightly emmbarassing… Hehe.
The cake was so good! Megan asked me of she could eat the whole chunk you gave me to take home. Haha.
Thanks again for the suprise and all your hard work!
Gen- haha sorry, had to post the pic!! That’s hilarious about Megan…that piece was HUGE! lol
AmandaP- sorry it’s taken me a while to get to your comment, it went into my spam filter for some reason. If it’s not too late, for a vanilla cake I like this recipe http://www.culinate.com/books/collections/all_books/Vegan+Cupcakes+Take+Over+the+World/Golden+Vanilla+Cupcakes but I just cook it for slightly longer until a toothpick comes out clean. For chocolate, this one is quite good http://www.chow.com/recipes/10794-basic-vegan-chocolate-cupcake. Hope this helps!! (And thanks, about my dress! I just loooove yellow.)
Waw,..you did a great job preparing this georgous arrangement of food!!
The bride to be was surely surprised!! yeah!!
The cake looks absolutely FABULOUS too! And the inside layers as well!
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