I seriously cannot think of anything about our wedding I care about less than how our wedding cake looks. This presents a problem, as we have our wedding cake tasting (yay) and design (boo) meeting on October 11th.
Our bakery is kind of a unique situation. Our cake is included in our reception package because the restaurant has a contract with a certain bakery. From what I understand, they have a book of cake designs we can choose from, so we can’t design our own (not that I would want to do that). We can customize colors, but the design is standard. They only have a few options up on their website, and they look just fine. When I think about it, if I have to form an opinion on this, I guess I want something sophisticated and not boring. Yup. I don’t care if it’s square or round, or if it’s colored or white. I think T is going to be making a lot of these decisions because I cannot muster up the energy to form violently passionate opinions about this. Here are a couple of ones from their website I like.
Classic but a little boring:
I like this aside from the obnoxious bow:
Again, like it except for the ribbon. People, step away from the fondant bows:
So, yeah, someone needs to form an opinion about this, because I don’t have one.
Taste is a different matter. I love cake. When I was little, my mom baked and sold beautiful cakes out of our house–mostly birthday cakes, but I have lots of fond memories of “helping” my mom bake and frost cakes. I still love to do it, and she recently gave me her cake decorating kit. It makes me a little bit sad that I live somewhere where I don’t have friends to make cakes for birthdays and showers and whatnot to play with it! Sigh.
T and I are both BIG chocolate cake fans. I hate white cake and T does not see the point in cake that is not chocolate. I like yellow cake with chocolate frosting, and pound cake, and red velvet cake. We’ve eaten this place’s cake before, and it’s fab. I am super excited to pick this out. Here are our options:
Cake flavors
- Marble chiffon
- Vanilla chiffon
- Chocolate chiffon
- White cake
- Double devil’s food
- Pound cake
- Almond pound cake
- Lemon pound cake
- Banana cake
- Carrot cake
Fillings:
- Vanilla custard
- Chocolate custard
- Lemon custard
- Strawberry jam
- Raspberry jam
- Apricot jam
- Vanilla buttercream
- Chocolate buttercream
- Hazelnut buttercream
- Mocha buttercream
- Lemon buttercream
- Raspberry buttercream
- Strawberry buttercream
- White chocolate mousse
- Chocolate mousse
- Raspberry mousse
- Strawberry mousse
- Irish cream mousse
- Lemon mousse
- Tiramisu mousse
- Fresh strawberry
- Fresh banana
- Seasonal fruit
- Fudge
- Ganache
- Cream cheese
Frostings:
- Fondant
- White chocolate ganache
- Dark chocolate ganache
- Wedding buttercream
PHEW. I will bring my camera and blog about all this, but wow. Talk about a lot of choices! I think this might be the part of wedding planning I am most excited for. We’ll probably avoid the jams, because I’m not a fan of jam fillings in cake, but fresh strawberries and bananas sound pretty good. And cream cheese? And ganache? Oh man. I am way excited for this, but the sheer amount of decisions involved will be a bit overwhelming. We’ll probably have 3 or 4 tiers based on our number of guests, so we’ll probably have different flavors in each.
What’s your favorite kind of cake? Best wedding cake you’ve ever had?
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Ahhhh! I just found your blog! I remember you from NROL4W on TDP! HI!
Um. I love cake. Lemon is my favorite. Or carrot cake. Only if it has cream cheese frosting though. And I’m sorry, but Tiramisu mousse filling sounds divine! I am recently engaged and we are deciding on the cake this weekend, sans a tasting b/c we are doing a destination sort of wedding in LAS VEGAS!
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Ganache is awesome on cakes. I love cream cheese frosting.
Only get the buttercream if it is really made with butter and not any shortening – that kind is nasty.
I worked in a bakery for a while that did the most divine cakes for weddings. Italian cream cake with buttercream icing was my favorite!
I love chocolate ribbon cake, which I think has chocolate as the base and a cream cheese frosting. They all sound pretty good though!!
Carrot cake + cream cheese frosting all the way. Sooo good, and tends to end up moister than the other ones.
I agree with Marina carrot cake and cream cheese frosting yummo! this blog is so cute. I just found it and i’m excited!!
I am a fan of red velvet cake with cream cheese icing. The tiramisu filling and the ganache sounds wonderful! OMG and the Irish Creme!
I love cake #2 but without the bow. For real, what’s with the big bows?
Well, if it was just ME eating the wedding cake, I would go for carrot with cream cheese frosting. Complete with little frosting carrots on top
But chocolate is probably the best way to go. With chocolate fudge filling. And dark chocolate icing. Yumm 
White cake with an Amaretto soak with custard filling is probably the best wedding cake I’ve ever had. I’m a cake lover too, so deciding on flavors would prove to be difficult for me too! I have to agree with the others…Can’t go wrong with chocolate! Plus, chocolate ganache is just divine.