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I’m starting to think I’m a hog. No, not a pig, but a hogger of things. Take the remote, for instance. Although I try to put on shows I think Mr. Kiwi and I will both like, he seems to think that I’m a remote hogger. Well! It’s not my fault I get home first. He also seems to think I hog the couch. Hey - it’s more comfortable in the middle!
So, this brings me to our cake tasting. I love cake. Especially chocolate cake with buttercream. Mr. Kiwi isn’t a cake fan, and seems to like fresh fruit in his cakes. He has asked me to do the cake tasting by myself (well, technically with his mom who is a cake connoisseur), and to just decide what we’re having.
If there are good parts to wedding planning, this is definitely it- I get to taste a variety of cakes! How cool is that? So, with a few designs run by Mr. Kiwi, this cake is my creation. I can have the chocolate cake with chocolate chip filling, and white buttercream. Or maybe a marble cake with chocolate mousse filling… Or, I could be the greatest wife to be and get the white cake with strawberries and whipped cream. 
Even if he was coming to the cake tasting, Mr. Kiwi has said from the start- the cake is MY thing. My favorite part of weddings is the cake, seeing what interesting combinations other couples have come up with. At weddings, Mr. Kiwi says this about the cake “Man, there is too much icing.” That is cake blasphemy! If it’s good buttercream, there is no such thing as too much icing (of course, sometimes a glass of milk would taste a lot better than the champagne!).
Now that weddings are becoming more personalized, cakes are starting to veer from the plain white on white to the elaborate. Fillings are becoming more gourmet, and the actual cake itself is straying from the norm. I am ecstatic- I can finally have the chocolate cake people said “just wasn’t done in weddings”. Now, my little cake love, I can taste with abandon. Mr. Kiwi, on the other hand, thinks it’ll be too much cake to eat. This makes me wonder, out of your relationship, who cares more about the cake?
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We started out in the same “the cake is your thing, honey” phase… but, before long he just couldn’t resist.
We went from a wedding cake only (he said he did not care about a groom’s cake)… to a wedding cake AND and groom’s cake (b/c he saw one shaped like a football helmet that he just couldn’t resist)… to back to only a wedding cake (where we compromised on the tiers being some flavors that I like and some that he likes).
One tier of butter almond with fresh strawberry filling (mine)
One tier of butter almond with fresh raspberry filling (mine)
Two tiers of chocolate cake with chocolate fudge filling (his)
All with a yummy buttercream icing!
In the end, I think it will turn out perfect! I am happy with our choices, and I can’t wait to taste it! 
I care more. But that doesn’t stop him from EATING more!
From the very beginning, neither of us were crazy about the cake-thing. For one, my aunt was suppose to bake the cake like she has done for all her neices. But, apparently driving 300 miles across the desert in August isn’t good for a cake–who knew?
So, we did the tasting thing. Aside from a lime filling, we were rather unimpressed with everything that touched our lips… UNTIL we decided that what we LOVE is chocolate. Chocolate everything. So… that’s what we’re doing. Chocolate cake w/chocolate frosting. If Betty Crocker was in the Pacific Northwest, she’d be our vendor!! It’s a little untraditional, but WE LOVE IT.
How true AMK!
i’m definitely the cake fiend in the relationship…the only downer is he doesn’t eat chocolate so that cuts out like, half of our choices. but we did find a middle ground by having alternating layers with our cake of choice. because marriage is all about compromise!
My fiance could care less about the dessert as long as he gets prime rib for the main course! He’s a meat & potatoes guy and that’s what he craves, and I have a horrific sweet tooth so the cake is my thing. We’ll both be happy in the end. I haven’t done cake tastings yet but I’m thinking of different flavours in every tier, one will be white chocolate cake with raspberry filling and one will hopefully be chocolate with caramel filling. Not sure about the third tier. Maybe something with a custard filling. The possibilities make my mouth water. I cannot wait for the tasting.
To answer the question, we both love desserts and therefore both went along to the cake tastings. My honey can’t pass up a good hunk o’cake! But when it came down to the look, that was all me. But he has a strawberry groom’s cake, shaped like a drum, and that’s ALL him.
So I have a cake question of my own … are any of y’all running into the “we can only make bottom layers out of pound cake” phenomenon? Cause that’s ALL I hear where I am, way down in the South, and they say it’s because the other cakes aren’t heavy enough to hold layers. Maybe it’s a regional thing, but every stinkin baker tells me that, and I don’t recall ever eating pound cake wedding cake growing up in the midwest. So… our cake will be five layers, the three bottom ones being vanilla pound cake with raspberry filling and the top two being chocolate, all with buttercream, and we’re also getting two half sheet cakes, in chocolate. We will have a TON of cake!! (Which is important, cause we’re just having a cake reception.)
KDN, I know pound cakes are popular wedding cakes, but I don’t think I’ve heard of HAVING to have it. Hm…
Anyone else?
just have to say this: i don’t know about anywhere else but i LOVE the JJ Bakery / Diamond Bakery chains in l.a. i don’t think they’ll fit your ammo but for fresh strawberry cake with creammmmmm, they are the best.
also, i never knew chocolate cake wasn’t very “traditional”. cake is cake! go for it and make it your own!
hm…and between me and bf, i think we’re about even on how much we’d care about the cake. as long as it’s good and affordable. 
Neither of us is all that concerned with it…which is why a friend is making cupcakes.
My FI dutifully came with me to all the other vendor meetings but pointedly warned me not to do any cake tastings without him. He also asked that we take our time with the cake tastings so that he can have seconds….I guess the cake fiend would be him.
We’re really trying to accommodate a lot of our guests’ tastes, rather than letting either of us serve only our own tastes (lucky for me, because his dream cake would probably involve a lot of tamarind). As a result, we’re doing a fairly straightforward white cake with a berry filling and buttercream frosting. BUT we’re making it interesting and personal and what-have-you by having the groom himself make a chocolate sauce to be served on the side.
You’re wondering why this sounds familiar. I slightly stole the idea from the end of When Harry Met Sally.
Neither one of us is super into the cake, but we love it none the less. Once FI tasted a sample of our cake, he became more into it. FI likes cake…period. No cares about flavor or anything; he just likes it. So, it was me and my mom who picked out the flavors (we are having four!!) and design. I’m also planning his groom’s cake as a complete surprise!
I advanced the first ideas about our cake (we’re actually doing cupcakes instead), but he took over swiftly when he found a vendor that we like. Although we haven’t gone in for the official tasting and meeting, we stop by every once in a while to pick up some cupcakes just for us, and he always raves about it. It’s the one thing about the wedding that he’s been very clear about.
For the cake, I asked the baker what her most popular/successful flavors were and what ratio to make of each. That was it.
who cares. what a retarded question
My husband HAD to have cheesecake for our wedding cake - it was a must! To this day he still complains that all he got to eat was the small piece that I fed him.
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Mrs. Kiwi, Los Angeles
Age and Occupation in 06: 27, Bookkeeper
Fiance's Age and Occupation: 27, P.E. Teach/Coach @ private schools in LA
Engagement Date: March 31, 2006
Wedding Date: November 3, 2007
Venue: Radisson Hotel
About Me: I'm a bookkeeper who failed high school algebra. I'm currently living in Los Angeles, literally a street over from where I grew up with Mr. Kiwi, my honey of three years. We have a jumbo mini-dachshund (seriously, he's huuuuge), and we're planning an autumn themed wedding on a shoestring, paid for by ourselves. The wedding date is my late grandma's birthday, I needed her there somehow, and that seemed like the best way for us. I can't believe I'm a Bee! I couldn't be more proud!
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