Wedding Blog

Due to the bakery’s hectic schedule, we had to book our cake tasting half a month in advance. So when yesterday finally arrived, I was SO unprepared. Usually I am super anal when it comes to vendor meetings, with my mega planning binder in hand and pix galore. But somehow yesterday I showed up completely empty handed! Probably cuz I already knew that since this bakery is contracted through our venue, the cakes that are included in our package price are quite limited. I had seen their binder of included cakes, and so I was rather resigned to just an average cake.

I had spoken to the bakery lady multiple times with questions about what I can/cannot do within my package, and everything I asked for came with the response, “No, that’s an upcharge.” I got this answer multiple times in regards to cupcakes, chocolate ganache instead of buttercream, red velvet cake, mocha mousse…I was frustrated because everything I wanted came with a “NO.” This pissed me off cuz c’mon, at least give me the OPTION of these choices. If I want them badly enough, I’ll PAY for them! But don’t give me that annoying answer every time…Grrr.

So anyways, I was already apprehensive when I went in to meet with this woman. But somehow, it turned out to be the funnest part of planning so far! This is what we got:

YUM!! I was in absolute heaven. We ruled out the devil’s food cake and the plain old white cake… they were too heavy (and the white cake was so dry!!). Luckily, both chiffon cake flavors were light and not too sweet - much like the cakes you find in Asian bakeries. We came up with three different combinations that we looove:

1) Chocolate chiffon cake/hazelnut filling/chocolate mousse (2 tiers)

2) Yellow chiffon cake/cream cheese frosting/rasberry mousse (2 tiers)

3) Yellow chiffon cake/vanilla custard/lemon mousse

I really, really wanted a chocolate ganache cake, but apparently it would tack on an additional $2 per person which we didn’t feel was worth it. This is my dream cake:

(via knottie Carmelbride2006)

But we’ll be getting something along the lines of this cake below. A 5-tier square cake in buttercream (the pic below is done in fondant). The flowers will cascade down the side in a similar fashion:

However, instead of what’s pictured above, our flowers will actually be dainty, dark pink cherry blossoms made of chocolate (like these below), cascading down the side. I didn’t like the way that this cake below looks like it is infested with flowers, hehe.

We aren’t using cherry blossoms anywhere else in our wedding, but oh well, I like the way they look!

Another thing off my checklist. So, YAY! I am a happy camper!!