{"id":27,"date":"2006-08-21T20:19:00","date_gmt":"2006-08-22T00:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nancyoster.com\/?p=27"},"modified":"2006-08-21T20:19:00","modified_gmt":"2006-08-22T00:19:00","slug":"lavender-rose-petal-cake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nancyoster.com\/?p=27","title":{"rendered":"Lavender Rose Petal Cake"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/235\/2066\/1600\/Lavender%20Rose%20Petal.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;\" src=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/235\/2066\/320\/Lavender%20Rose%20Petal.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>This cake is  light pink with white borders. The rose petals on top were picked from Kris&#8217; mom&#8217;s garden, brushed tenderly with egg white and lightly dipped in superfine sugar. Then they were dried until crisp as a rose petal potato chip.<\/p>\n<p>I woke up the morning of the wedding worried that the mousseline filling would soften and leak out through the Italian buttercream sides. So I took what was left of the taster cake out of the refrigerator and let it sit on the counter for 4 hours to reassure myself that this would not happen. It didn&#8217;t and the buttery cake with the buttery filling and buttery frosting was&#8230; well, exquisitely delicious.<\/p>\n<p>Kris said this looked like a fairy princess cake. I carefully placed flecks of real gold leaf on the rose petals, lavender buds, and border, for a magical touch of fairy dust. (You can see it if you click on the photo and then click again on the enlarged image.)<\/p>\n<p>Adam chose the tiles these cakes are placed on. They made an elegant presentation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This cake is light pink with white borders. The rose petals on top were picked from Kris&#8217; mom&#8217;s garden, brushed tenderly with egg white and lightly dipped in superfine sugar. Then they were dried until&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nancyoster.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nancyoster.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nancyoster.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nancyoster.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nancyoster.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nancyoster.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nancyoster.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nancyoster.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nancyoster.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}