Same-Sex Weddings Lead to Same-Sex Wedding Cakes
What kind of wedding cake did the first Supreme Court-approved same-sex couple exchanging wedding vows in San Francisco enjoy earlier this week? A three-layer genoise sponge cake with black pepper-crème fraiche mousse, strawberries, raspberries and rosebud cream, garnished with multicolored Mt. Rainier cherries and wildflowers.
Bay Area chef Elizabeth Falkner, author of Demolition Desserts, was behind the "Love Letter Cake," eaten on Monday after Mayor Gavin Newsome completed the union. Falkner admitted that cake sales at her restaurant and patisserie Citizen Cake, as well as wedding reception bookings at her other spot Orson, have already shot up now that California residents are able to engage in same-sex unions.
Politics aside, bakery owners should consider placing more orders of those same-sex cake-topping figurines.
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Here's a photo of the cake from our "same-sex wedding" 2 years ago in Canada. My partner and I decided to go with fresh flowers over the figurines...we couldn't find any that matched "us" since neither one of us wore a dress. The only figurines for two women that I've seen show at least one of them wearing a dress...oh well. We loved our cake anyway.
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rsmouse at 10:34AM on 06/19/08
In November of 2006 my partner and I celebrated 27 years together by getting married in Ottawa, Canada. My sister-in-law provided the cake but had to send to the UK for a male-male cake topper. I am hoping that they are more easily obtainable now. Coincidentally, we received a card on the front of which was a rendering of the very same cake topper we had on our cake!
RichardCrystal at 10:42AM on 06/19/08
Wait...black pepper? Can someone explain this to me?
fritesandfries at 11:02AM on 06/19/08
I was at that wedding, and I had a piece of that Love Letter cake, and it was DELICIOUS. Made all the more sweeter because of the occasion it was celebrating.
denaluna at 1:52PM on 06/19/08
@denaluna: What was the black pepper-crème fraiche mousse like?!
Erin Zimmer at 2:20PM on 06/19/08
Oh my god, black pepper-crème fraiche mousse with berries? That sounds amazing!
justjoan at 5:30PM on 06/19/08
@Erin Zimmer, it was perfect, somehow. I didn't even know it was black-pepper creme fraiche mousse! But the cake is light, airy, not too sweet....very different from most wedding cakes, which makes it even better.
denaluna at 1:48AM on 11/15/08