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A cake for our ceremony
Next Saturday, my partner David and I will be celebrating our civil partnership: another two gay men recording our love and commitment to each other. Nothing that should alarm any sane person. Yet, while the politicians and church debate that “this isn’t a marriage” with a degree of hate-mongering rhetoric knocking about, equally it’s clear to me that old wedding traditions don’t apply either.
A skype camera at Wandsworth town hall will film the event so Mum and Dad can watch in Australia, as no religion is involved the words will be our own, and the food afterwards will be simply what we want to eat. So as much as I admire the traditional iced fruit cake in the abstract, when it’s our ceremony I can think of many other cakes I’d rather choose.
So I thought I'd share the recipe for our cake with you, in this Saturday’s Guardian Weekend Magazine, 23rd June 2012. It's a coconut layer cake with a mascapone frosting
A cake for our ceremony
Next Saturday, my partner David and I will be celebrating our civil partnership: another two gay men recording our love and commitment to each other. Nothing that should alarm any sane person. Yet, while the politicians and church debate that “this isn’t a marriage” with a degree of hate-mongering rhetoric knocking about, equally it’s clear to me that old wedding traditions don’t apply either.
A skype camera at Wandsworth town hall will film the event so Mum and Dad can watch in Australia, as no religion is involved the words will be our own, and the food afterwards will be simply what we want to eat. So as much as I admire the traditional iced fruit cake in the abstract, when it’s our ceremony I can think of many other cakes I’d rather choose.
So I thought I'd share the recipe for our cake with you, in this Saturday’s Guardian Weekend Magazine, 23rd June 2012. It's a coconut layer cake with a mascapone frosting