So my friend (the bride) cares about the treatment of animals. She has very recently decided that she will only get eggs and meat from a local farmer who (I assume) treats his animals humanely (before ending their lives).
What does this mean for me?? NO BUTTER or MILK in the wedding cake and the eggs that I use must be acquired from said farmer. I hope he has a LOT of chickens, because we're planning to make about 7 cakes.
So after getting over the initial ingredient shift panic, I calmed down enough to realize that I could be creative with the cakes. Instead of milk I used coconut milk, and in lieu of butter - crisco! So while the cake now makes the cut, my arteries hate me. My "sample" pieces are getting smaller and smaller...which is arguably a good thing anyway.
So in summary - this cake was still quite delicious, and I even subbed the coconut milk and crisco into the frosting. Both parts turned out great, though I used the "butter flavored" crisco, which really just tinted the frosting slightly yellow. Oh well, the whole cake still disappeared quickly once I brought it in to work. (Surprise!)
