Book Talk 20th Anniversary Cake. (January 2002)

This cake was for the 20th Anniversary of the Library book club, called Book Talk. I was honored that they chose me to make their cake. It's the largest cake I've ever done. And talk about pressure--both my former and current bosses were going to be there!

	The final cake, in its final resting place, at the library. I was SO glad to have it finally out of my hands.
	The layers, baked and wrapped in plastic until they're ready to be iced
	Making white chocolate roses. The circles on the mat will become petals. The semi-pyramid looking things are the base that will hold the petals.
	Me, putting the roses together. It took forEVER.
	Me, holding up a finished rose. Note that I cheated on this one and only put 3 outer petals instead of 5.
	The royal icing stars, drying on bamboo skewers on waxed paper. Traced over a pencil drawing of the stars.
	The stars, icing is dry, freshly painted with edible gold paint.
	The gold stars, complete. The big one is for the center of the cake. The others go around it. In the end, I only used 5 stars total, but I took the extras with me just in case.
	Some of the roses, drying on a platter.
	The bottom layer, sliced in half and filled with light-purple buttercream icing. Mmmmmmmm. Purple.
	Bottom layer, filled and crumb coated.
	a closeup of the finished cake.
	The finished cake (except for the gold stars) from the top.
	I didn't have any boxes big enough to carry this cake, so Dan built one for me! :) Thanks, Dan!

a b/w photograph from the Penn Current. Caption read: "helping celebrate are four of the founding members: Lee Pugh (standing center front) from the Van Pelt-Dietrich Library; (standing next to Pugh going left to right) Julie Vick from Career Services; Jean Farrington, wife of former Engineering School Dean Greg Farrington; and (seated, far right) Jane Bryan, formerly from the Library."