My wife and I decided to make our own wedding cake for our DIY wedding. We also smoked pork butts and made lasagna for rehearsal dinner and reception and much more. I posted a pic in comments of an r/food thread and there were lots of recipe requests so figured I'd post here and link everyone. This recipe is enough for a standard size middle tier, we multiplied times 7 and had enough batter for 2 large, 2 middle and 2 small tiers for stacking. Got pants from Bed, Bath and Beyond.
Ingredients
- 6 cups cake flour sifted
- 2 tablespoons baking powder
- 1 cup butter, softened
- 1/2 cup bacon grease (cooled, soft)
- 1 cups granulated sugar
- 1 cups brown sugar
- 2 cups pure maple syrup
- 2 cups milk
- 1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
- 12 egg whites
Makes
12 cups of cake batter.
Directions
step 1
Preheat oven to 325°F. Grease bottom of pans and line with waxed paper or parchment paper or just grease well with butter. Cook bacon, save grease and chop into small chunks.
step 2
Sift together flour and baking powder. Set aside. Cream butter and sugar together until light and fluffy mix in bacon grease. Set aside. Beat egg whites until stiff, but not dry. Set aside. With mixer at slow speed, add flour mixture to butter mixture, alternately with milk. Beat well after each addition. Beat in vanilla extract and maple syrup. Gently fold egg whites into batter followed by bacon chunks. Pour into prepared pans. Bake until toothpick inserted into center comes out clean (around 60 minutes).
options
We chose to make a simple cream cheese based frosting with maple syrup in it as well, you can get bulk 100% maple for a good price on amazon
We also chose to make a sweetened puree out of black berries and one out of nectarines that we used between cake layers and then decorated with the fruits as well. I've never seen so little of a wedding cake left after a wedding. This thing was a huge hit and soooooo delicious.
I know it's not the prettiest cake, we've never decorated a wedding cake before, but it was just what we wanted and it served it's purpose.
Original unaltered recipe we started with: http://ift.tt/1YKaO3M
bon appetit
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