Setting it up in a frenzy at the site
Being admired by the beautiful bride and handsome groom :)
From the designing of each little label and wrapper, to the crafting of little pink candy-filled paper bags and such, to the search all over Singapore for just the right type of containers or bottles, to the intense baking and freezing and chopping and churning and frosting and packing, to the frenzy of setting up the table itself just before the guests streamed out of the church ... perhaps the loveliest present we could have given to the brother and our new sister!
Photos of the table are all tinged with a nasty green due to the reflection from the green roof, so green that no amount of photoshopping could remove the tinge, but perhaps the professional photographers would have some nicer shots.
On the dessert menu, we have ...
Hot chocolate for two: chunks of Valrhona chocolate, cocoa, and sugar to be stirred into hot milk and topped with a homemade (best ever!!) peppermint marshmallow
Hand-wrapped dark chocolate squares
Banana cupcakes with a decadent semi-sweet chocolate frosting
Strawberry cupcakes with a strawberry cream cheese frosting
Walnut brownie squares, which we pierced with toothpick flags
Perhaps the tastiest cake I’ve ever had (not biased): a two-layered “pink lemonade” cake with lemon curd filling and the most amazingly fluffy grand marnier lemon frosting
Also, caramel popcorn in cones;
rose macarons and coffee chocolate macarons;
candy goodie bags with pink ribbons hanging from the centerpiece plant;
strawberry and chocolate almond pocky sticks for the young ’uns;
a little bowl of pink homemade peppermint marshmallows;
and cranberry lemon cookies and rosemary walnut cookies in giant cookie jars.
Certainly the most amount of baking I’ve ever done in terms of both variety and quantity, the most amount of detail and effort put into decorating and labeling and presenting, and possibly the most fun and satisfaction I’ve ever had.
It was perhaps the largest family stealth project the Chan’s have ever accomplished (the brother knew we were making a dessert table but didn’t know any of the details) hahaha. Just thinking about how blessed we are as a family makes me all warm and fuzzy. Sure, we have our little fits and arguments, but I could not dream of having a more supportive, more loving, more fabulous family. And! I’m so thrilled to welcome another “sister” into the family! :) :) :)