Wednesday, May 20, 2009

And then there were 10...days.

Hello friends,

I know, I've been awful about posting lately. Things have been a little crazy, but here's an update on what's going on:

1. Nikkiehippie's big day is 10 days from now. Yikes! I've had my share of cupcake related nightmares lately, and I'm sure that I haven't seen the last of them.

2. I am officially back in Massachusetts until after the wedding. It was great to get to work sorting through the boxes of baking materials that I had shipped to my parents' house. Luckily, everything had arrived safe and sound. Well, everything except for the cupcake tree.

3. The cupcake tree that I ordered at the beginning of April never shipped and I didn't realize it until last Friday. No big deal, it's only what I had planned on displaying the entire wedding cupcake project and bride/groom mini cake on! And it arrives in corregated cardboard, and therefore needs to be decorated. I almost had a heart attack. Luckily, I spoke to the people at cupcaketree.com on Monday and they were absolutely wonderful about it and sent me one right away which arrived today. I'm currently staring at it at wondering whether my original idea for decorating it will work. More on that later! Oh, and it's way bigger than I anticipated. Definitely big enough to hold everything.

4. A week before departing Chicago for Boston, I managed to conquer my fear of Swiss Buttercream. Risky, maybe, but it's probably the one of the best baking decisions I've made. It was by far the best tasting frosting I've ever made. Oh, and I finally managed to make it red thanks to powdered food coloring!

So now, the time has come to really start preparing for the big day. I'm hoping to have the cupcake tree painted, embellished, and ready to go by the weekend, then it's on to baking and freezing the layers for the mini cake, making and refrigerating several tons of swiss buttercream in three flavors, baking 18 dozen cupcakes, preparing fondant decorations for mini cake, frosting and decorating everything, and then finding a way to store then transport it all to Jaffrey, NH (two hours away). No biggie, right? Oh and I'm a bridesmaid.

Speaking of which, I'm off to take care of some official bridesmaid business in preparation for the upcoming bachelorette party. I plan on blogging the rest of the progress for operation cupcake in case anyone else out there is thinking of doing the same thing (if you are out there, don't listen to all of the people telling you that you're insane. at least not yet). Hopefully the hiccups will be few and far between, but I'm sure there will be some. Who wants to be bored, anyway?

I'll leave you with this Metric acoustis cover of Elliot Smith's Between the Bars, mostly because I'm in love with Emily Haines. What? It's no secret.