Mama Says: "You won't believe what we found."

Yesterday, Dave and I celebrated our seventh wedding anniversary. And this is what we had for dessert. Tastefully wrapped in this trash bag is the top layer of our wedding cake—from seven years ago. When we were planning our wedding, the one thing I knew for sure was that I wanted Jan Moon to make one of her Dream Cakes for the bride's table. Jan's cakes are out of this world. (And because we must've been livin' right, my friend Mary Allen Perry, who created a gazillion Christmas cover cakes for Southern Living, GAVE us a whole groom's table full of chocolate wonders, for which we could never thank her enough.) Our guests devoured all of the above while we were still in the receiving line. Write this down: Don't put food in front of a bunch of Baptists if you don't want it gone. Mother saved the top layer of the cake and froze it so we could have it on our first anniversary. We forgot. On our second anniversary, when I asked about the cake, she said, "You got that already." For years, we have argued about the wedding cake, with Mama insisting she didn't have it while I insisted she did.

Well. Last week she called. She and Daddy were cleaning out "the deep freeze." And there it was, carefully wrapped in layers and layers of plastic wrap and then wrapped again in a white kitchen garbage bag. I brought it home, and we thawed it yesterday. After supper, we broke out the champagne flutes with silver hearts on them—another wedding present—and had a bite of cake and an anniversary toast. (We thought it best not to eat an entire seven-year-old dessert—but we were tempted.) Now, the fondant was a little worse for wear in places, and Jan's beautiful decorations had gotten smudged a little, but y'all, that cake smelled DIVINE and tasted great. It was still moist even. And if I wanted to get all philosophical about it, I could say that marriage is a lot like that cake. Sure, your icing might start to sag a little over the years, but if you start with quality ingredients and handle it with care . . . it's pretty sweet.

Comments

[Nancy Dorman-Hickson]

Terrific post. But it made me hungry for wedding cake and they don't have a bakery within 50 miles of this beach house. Somehow having an Oreo just isn't the same thing at all.

[valerieluesse]

No, but having 12 Oreos might do it . . .:)

[Joberta Wells]

LOVE it!

[valerieluesse]

Thanks, Joberta!