Cake Tasting

We had our cake tasting today.  My mom and I went and we had so much fun!  My co-workers girlfriend is a pastry chef and she makes them out of her house.

Her cakes were amazing and her prices were so reasonable! 

I'm relieved to have yet another thing checked off of the list.

I think this was probably the most fun planning meeting we've had so far!



We're going to have a footie cake for my fiance!
I was thinking of having a traditional wedding cake for him, but I don't know that we could find someone here to make it the right way.

Sounds like fun! What flavors are your cake? How is it decorated??   

Sadly, I won't be doing a cake tasting.  As the DF is the sweet-tooth more so that me, I've told him that he can choose the cake.  As a Brit, he has chosen the traditional fruit cake.  Which makes me happy...I was fearful he would chose my least-liked flavor of chocholate....

I'm happy that you have your cake chosen though...isn't it amazing all the little things you have to decided on???

That stuff is so much fun!

Yah, tell us flavor and decoration and tiers!

Cheers,
Jen

Oooh, now I can just sit back and enjoy hearing about everyone else's plans! Do tell how your cake is going to be decorated!

We're positively swimming in wedding cake - we had SO much left over it's not even funny. My compromise with my very traditionally minded husband was to have fruit cake for the bottom and sponge for the top two. We actually ordered the rounds from M&S and one of my best friends made a silk flower topper and some smaller silk flower thingy-s for the middle. It turned out really, really pretty for being such a budget deal!

I was determined to make a traditional English fruitcake for our wedding (kind of as the groom's cake...we had a traditional sponge cake as the wedding cake).  I spent (or rather my mom and stepdad spent!) over $150 for the ingredients--it was a big cake!

I started months before the wedding and carefully tended to the cake, soaking it in brandy every so often . I took up loads of my grandmother's kitchen and pantry space with layers and layers of fruitcake!  A few days before the wedding, I carefully assembled the three tier behemoth (it must have weighed 30 pounds!) and covered it in marzipan and royal icing, piped the decorations, and stuck our little Union Jack and US flags on top.

Then we forgot to take the damn thing to the reception venue.      

Ohhh, I never got to have a cake tasting, which I would have LOVED! However, in just A WEEK AND A HALF, (omg  ) we'll be picking up our wedding cake to take over to the hotel....we are having an English tradtional fruit cake covered with white fondant and marzipan layer underneath, just like a lot of you ladies.  Then, for our AMERICAN wedding in December, we had ordered a 3 tier pound cake with butter cream icing, cascading burgundy roses with silver foiled leaves and our little Edwardian bride and groom will be doing double duty, atop BOTH cakes    yayee!

All the cakes sound very lovely! We have not decided what our filling will be yet. I do want it decorated with a seashell motif since we will have our ceremony on the ocean beach and the reception is in a place right on the beach. An easy walk from the ceremony to the party!

I really love cannoli filling... And fresh fruit too. Hmmm?!   

Just got back from visiting the fiance & family in the UK.  Only gone a week... not long enough!  Boo!

Anyhow... we're having a two tier brides cake -- it is a white cake with chambord cream & fresh raspberries with a buttercream icing on top.  It is going to have little pink flowers made of royal icing dotted all over it, and little green vines on the bottom.

The grooms cake will be -- get this --  chocolate cake with hazelnut cream & fresh strawberry filling with chocolate buttercream frosting with a layer of dark chocolate ganache over it and fresh chocolate covered strawberries on the side -- YIKES!!!   The grooms cake will have yellow and blue ribbon trail off the back, the Portsmouth Football Club crest in the middle and little chocolate fooballs worked in here and there -- I can't wait to see this one... mostly I can't wait for the fiance to see this one!

Zenmomma~ Your cakes sound so beautiful and yummy. Im drooling into my keyboard right now!