Garth Brooks and Trisha Yearwood Recall How Their Wedding Cake Was a Near-Disaster (Exclusive)

Trisha Yearwood may be a talented cook, but her wedding cake was a near failure.

In an exclusive clip ahead of Thursday’s Prime Video documentary episode Friends in Low PlacesYearwood and Garth Brooks share a behind-the-scenes memory of their wedding cake.

“Oh my God – that’s from our wedding,” Brooks said in shock as his wife brought out a modest white cake with red decorations. Yearwood confirmed: “It is! This is the recipe that was served at our wedding.”

The couple married in December 2005 at their home outside Tulsa, Oklahoma. During a private ceremony, the country stars exchanged vows in front of family members just six months after Brooks popped the question in California.

Garth Brooks and Trisha Yearwood in ‘Friends In Low Places’ on Prime Video.

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“My mom made a living making wedding cakes when we were little kids. She always made this cake for her wedding cakes,” Yearwood explained to friends at the table in the clip (above).

“What I loved was that your mom knew exactly what she was going to do and she knew exactly what she wasn’t going to do, and she didn’t want to bake this cake,” Brooks joked of his mother-in-law, Gwen, who died of cancer in 2011.

Garth Brooks and Trisha Yearwood serve their sour cream wedding cake at his bar in Nashville

Of course, Yearwood wanted her mom to make a cake for their big day, but “yes” wasn’t easy. “I said, ‘Would you please make our wedding cake?’ And she said, ‘No,'” Yearwood recalled with a laugh.

But her mom came and made something special for the couple. “I said, ‘We’re just going to be a few people. He will be in the house. You can just do something small, and she said, ‘Okay,'” Yearwood said.

Garth Brooks and Trisha Yearwood in ‘Friends In Low Places’ on Prime Video.

Friends in Low Places/Prime Video

In the end, Brooks revealed that 77 guests showed up, and the cake Gwen made turned out to be huge—it had five tiers.

“Here’s what happened that day, we’re on a farm in Oklahoma and the bottom layer was massive. We put it in the oven and the oven door wouldn’t close,” Brooks and Yearwood recalled together.

Garth Brooks, Trisha Yearwood Chronicle Honky-Tonk Bar Opening in New Documentary Series Friends in Low Places

Fortunately, they had a solution. “We happened to have a friend on the other side of the farm who had a really big oven,” Yearwood said.

“Incredibly [thing] were in an open-top Jeep in the middle of December, going across this farm trying to keep this cake right,” Brooks said with a laugh.

“It was like going back to my childhood carrying a cake in the back of the station wagon,” Yearwood said.

In the end, the cake “turned out perfect,” she added.

The country singers are giving fans an inside look at the opening of their Friends in Low Places Bar & Honky-Tonk in new docuseries. A Nashville eatery showcases Yearwood’s food — and their wedding cake. It’s called “G&T’s Wedding Cake” on the menu.

Garth Brooks and Trisha Yearwood.

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“As you can see by bringing Trisha into this, all of a sudden it’s a family,” Brooks said of Yearwood’s involvement at the bar.

“This was my mom’s recipe. It’s a sour cream cake with just a decorative frosting and it’s a piece of history for us,” Yearwood said on Good morning America earlier this month. “It brings my mom back into the kitchen, too.”

The new bar also serves “amazing” chicken tenders and Food Network star burgers, along with fried pickles and stuffed brownies.

“If you don’t come to Friends in Low Places for cold beer and Honky Tonk and music, there’s Trisha Yearwood’s food,” Brooks said on his Inside Studio G podcast. “That’s pretty cool, man.”

Friends in Low Places airs Thursdays on Prime.

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