Well, our kitchens certainly kept us busy this past weekend. The hot and humid weather sure did not help us out any. So we wanted to share a little reminder to everyone as the summer is about to officially begin (the 90+ degrees for the last two weeks was just spring!).
On Friday morning, our Centreville kitchen started up early to produce a wedding cake to be picked up at 9am. The bride and groom were having a small wedding with about 15 people on Friday afternoon. They chose a two-tier red velvet cake with cream cheese filling and buttercream icing. For the design, they wanted something simple and elegant. They went with a light pink ribbon wrap with scroll work and fresh pink roses on the cake. We had the cake ready for them when we opened at 9:00. That morning, it was already 90 degrees outside, and they weren't serving the cake for another five hours, so we made sure to remind them to refrigerate the cake when they got home.
Well, almost two hours later they walked back into the bakery with the cake box. One of our staff members (Brian) asked what was wrong, and they lowered the cake box. I think Brian's heart may have jumped a little when he saw the remnants of the cake. All the buttercream icing had melted, the cream cheese filling had also melted and the cake was sweating. Brian asked what happened, and our nervous groom admitted he had stopped to run an errand before going straight home, therefore he left the cake in the car by itself, with no air. This happened almost two hours since he left with the cake from the bakery! Since it was over 90 degrees, it meant the inside of the car was like an oven, and the entire cake could not handle the extreme heat.
We were not able to save their original wedding cake due to the melted icing and compromised support structure. We asked them to come back in another 90 minutes so that we could figure out our next step. Luckily, we had some more red velvet cakes for orders that were picking up later that afternoon, so we pulled those cakes and trimmed them for a brand new wedding cake and had the baker start on another batch of red velvet cakes for the later orders. We quickly filled and iced the new cakes, then decorated them to look like the original cake. When the groom returned, he had two cakes - a beautiful wedding cake for his beautiful bride, and a groomscake that was sure to be the talk of the pre-summer heat!
So here is a little rhyme from our desserts so that you will never forget to keep dessert cool:
Our gentle reminder that just like you, please keep us (desserts) cool,
We don't like to sit, unwind or relax by the pool,
For we are not made to stay hot,
And we will try to give it all we've got,
But you may forget about us and go take a dip,
And if you do, we will most certainly drip, and may even strip!
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