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It was a teenage wedding and the old folks wished ‘em well

My dear university friend Sarah is a volcanologist studying Vulcans in Alaska with her paramour Silvio, a fellow volcanologist from Rome. This pair of Vesuvius-loving geekazoids got hitched on Saturday in London and held the reception at a Moroccan-themed restaurant.

Between Alaska, Rome, Morocco, visitors flying in from Italy, Australia, Switzerland and America, it was a somewhat multicultural event, so naturally for their wedding cake they requested…an olde English country cottage wedding style sponge cake.

And I was tasked with baking it!

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