In my last Post, I talked about the cake tasting disasters. But now on to tasting #3 and our cake!
Tasting #3:
I had done some research and found a tiny bakery about 45 minutes away from our venue. The place did wedding cakes but they were mostly a catering company/bakery in the heart of Annapolis, MD, called Palate Pleasers. When we walked in the owner created us with a huge smile and FINALLY I was excited about our cake. I had brought some pics to show him, giving him a rough idea of what we wanted.
Idea #1:
For the colors
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CAKE – Of course we’re having a wedding cake. CC’s favorite dessert is yellow cake with chocolate frosting, so it was a no brainer that there would be cake at our reception. But, it’s not all about the groom – I’m the bride! (Jeez, that sounded a bit bridezilla, heehee.) As much as I like yellow cake with chocolate frosting, I’ve eaten a lifetime’s worth in the last 6 months, since I’ve moved in with CC (I seem to bake one every other week for him.). I definitely didn’t want that to be our only wedding cake.
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I ♥ carrot cake with cream cheese frosting… yum. I’ve also been really into baking lately, so I figured baking our own wedding cakes, and having a variety of them, would be a great way to save money and make it interesting. Not everyone thought it was such a great idea, however. I would have a lot going on that last week before the wedding, which may have helped my mentor and his wife decide to kindly offer to gift us our wedding cakes. Of course we said yes, one less thing for us to have to worry about! My mentor already had a baker in mind. He teaches with a talented man, Peter Dumont, who is going to create 3 wonderful cakes for our wedding.
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I have a confession to make… those beautiful cakes featured on TheKnot.com, Ace of Cakes, and the like…do nothing for us…Being that wedding cakes are expensive and generally covered in Fondant, also known as disgusting paste (to us), we were happy to “drop the cake” as it were...
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We went into our first catering meeting with two thought bubbles… his was Tiramisu and mine was the song of the south known as Bread Pudding. Wouldn’t you know it- both were on their menu. In fact, both were on their menu and were included in the quoted price per guest. Eureka! But who would win? The Bride or the Groom?!?! We looked at each other and then back at the caterer…. “Can we have both?” we asked almost in unison. Ask and ye shall receive….
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We loved our cake so much. Our vendor — Bob’s Bunz — was awesome. It tasted great, looked beautiful, and arrived in plenty of time. Each slice had one layer of key lime cake, one layer of chocolate cake, raspberry filling and key lime buttercream icing.
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Last weekend Periwinkle Dude and I attended a beautiful wedding. After 11 months of engagement, our friends “E” and “B” tied the knot and we were so happy to be there to celebrate with them! The ceremony and reception were held at the Sea Oaks Country Club, near the Jersey Shore. The country club was a bright and open airy space, with windows that looked out onto the pristine golf course below. Here is a shot of the ballroom from Sea Oak’s website:
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By far my favorite part of all of this is choosing the wedding cake! I have to admit I have a huge sweet tooth, and can’t wait to sink my teeth into that yummy goodness at the wedding! Now though, I have to figure out how I want it decorated! Here is what we know:
1.) We want buttercream icing…I mean seriously, you can’t go wrong with butter…and cream!
2.) We are fairly simple folks…
3.) It’s not going to be a big cake as we won’t have more than 60-70 people there.
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My love is not only focused on to do lists. There is actually another passion and that’s cake. I love the taste, art, design, concept, etc. Anything that involves cake, I love. This was actually one of my favorite things to do during our research and planning process. Who would be the baker and cake decorator for our wedding?
When I was able to answer that question we needed to determine what we wanted on our cake. Therefore, I started looking at pictures. The following images are from The Knot.
We knew we wanted a decorator with great piping skills.
Our baker should have an artistic point of view…
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When it came to the kind of cake that we should have at our wedding, only 1 choice seemed right: carrot cake! We met at a potluck over my homemade carrot cake, which is the only cake Calla Lily Dude likes.
The tricky part was that I am very picky about carrot cake and rarely eat carrot cake that I did not make myself. I have tried carrot cake from several bakeries, and didn’t like any, so I decided it to take on my wedding cake as a DIY project…
This seemed out right crazy, so I decided to recruit a few gal pals and make an event out of it a few days before my wedding and the DIY Cupcake Bake Party idea was born.
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The wedding cake was very hard for me to decide on. I had actually written blogs about cake searching and ended up not posting them because I still wasn’t keen on having a plain wedding cake and groom’s cake. I originally wanted a famous little diner in my hometown to make pies. I wanted to design a Pie Stand out of thick barbed wire that held three or four different size pies and tier it like a cake. I had it all planned out and was going to have my Dad help me build it. But everyone I talked to (mostly my mom) convinced me that I would regret not having a cake. Plus the Dude’s favorite dessert is cake.
If you weren’t aware, the Dude is from Texas, and I am from California. In the South, it is tradition to have a Groom’s Cake. A groom’s cake can come in all different shapes, sizes, colors and flavors. Most of them I’ve seen are chocolate or fruit filled usually depicting something of importance to the groom like his favorite sports team, hobby, family crest, or alma mater. Even though the Dude is from the South, I was going to let him bring it up if he wanted one, I wasn’t making any suggestions. I didn’t want one of these next to the wedding cake…
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One cost I am trying to keep under control for my wedding is my cake. Typically with bakers in my area, a 3 tiered cake will serve about 150 guests and cost between $550-$750. To serve my 200 guests I would be looking at a cake close to $1,000.
At first I was determined to make my own wedding cake. But then I came back to reality and realized it would be way too much for me to take on before my wedding. I love to be hands on with everything weddings, but sometimes I have to step back and realize that I’m not planning a wedding for a client, and that there is a lot more to focus on when its your own wedding.
So I thought instead of worrying about baking and then decorating the perfect cake, I would instead take inspiration from the cakes I see set up at the bridal shows: for display purposes they create fake cakes out of styrofoam and fondant.
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