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Getting Married-- Cake?

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Hello all! I'm planning to get married in Pittsburgh next year. I'm newly gluten free (three weeks now!) and still adjusting. We're having a very informal, picnic wedding. I will probably be teaming up with friends and relatives (and my husband-to-be, an extremely talented cook who is taking up the gluten-free challenge admirably) to do most of the cooking, but I'd really love to have a pretty, gluten-free and (oh yeah) delicious wedding cake that everyone can enjoy. I'm a celiac and so is a friend of the family, but all of the other guests are civilians, so to speak. This is in the Pittsburgh area.

I should add that we're on a super-tight budget-- I expect the cake to be one of the larger expenses, but we can't go crazy. Anyone from the 'Burgh or nearby have suggestions?

Also, any other celiac bride-related advice would be most welcome! I'm sure lots of you have been through this, but it isn't exactly covered in the "so you're getting married" literature.

Thank you!!

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Mireille has a hummingbird cake in her best of Mireille that one of the other ladies used as a wedding cake. It is delicious. You can find the recipe on www.delphiforums.com click on health and wellness and then click on Celiac Disease On-Line Support Group Click on gluten-free recipes. See at the top of the page click on Advanced search. Type in “Hummingbird cake” and click search. :lol:

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Annalise Roberts one of the food philosopher sisters created a wedding cake recipe for me to use for my college graduation. It is awesome!!! I adapted it a bit from her recipe and I had people (civilians :lol: )(loved that you used that term) BEGGING me for the recipe!!! I have the recipe that I use posted on my website USASillyYaks. If you want the orig recipe you might try contacting Annalise for hers...here is her email from her website foodph@foodphilosopher.com She doesn't have the cake recipe posted on her site, but does have a few other recipes Open Original Shared Link

-Jessica :rolleyes:

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Ignore that previous post by me, it is a recipe for cookies.

Sorry...

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Carol Fenster, Ph.D book Special Diet Celebrations has a number of gluten free wedding cake recipes in. Carol also gives menu ideas for wedding reception dinner, breakfast and buffet. ;)

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My son just got married at the end of June. My daughter and I are both gluten-intolerant (another son with positive tTg got his results a week later!), so I made a wee little cake for the 2 of us with a recipe from Betty Hagman's Fast and Healty book. I froze it and it was delivered to the cake decorator. She frosted it for us and frankly, it was delicious. We didn't feel deprived in the least and it was wonderful to be able to enjoy without feeling left out. None of the "civilians" who begged a taste could tell any difference.

All that to say that gluten-free cakes can taste wonderful. Just make sure that you instruct your decorator to make sure there are no regular crumbs in the frosting or on her supplies.

Happy wedding,

Barbara

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Sarah,

I just moved from Pittsburgh in the past few months and was never able to find a gluten-free bakery there, if that is what you're looking for :(, although maybe one has appeared recently. Given that, it might be best to try to bake it on your own or assemble it from the various kinds of mail order cakes you can get from places like Mr. Ritts that deliver to da 'burgh.

The idea of a regular decorator is a good one, but depending on how sensitive you are, you might want to seriously consider the possible cross contamination risk of having a gluten-free cake hanging out in a floury bakery for an extended period of time. Would hate for you to be sick on your big day (I spent mine VERY ill 6 mos. prior to going gluten-free, so trust me on this one!).

One thing that might be simple yet very pretty might be to place some edible flowers on your cake... that way you would only have to frost it simply and arrange the flowers and you'd be done.

best wishes with your wedding!

H

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