Wedding Blog

My ultimate goal for my wedding cake is to have three different flavors for the three layers of cake, but gosh durnit, I plan to LOVE each and every one. In an effort to achieve this, yesterday kicked off the first in a series of cake flavor tests!!

Because I would not, by any means, consider myself to be a baker, I decided that the best plan of attack would be to supplement boxed cake mixes with other ingredients. This resulted in the following three “recipes” (pay attention because they’re difficult):

1. Apple Cider Spice Cake

I mean it - are you paying attention? This is a toughy. To make this cake, you’ll need to start with a box of spice cake.. THEN follow the recipe on the back of the cake box. HOWEVER, rather than adding 1 1/3 cups of water, you’ll instead add 1 1/3 cups of apple cider (see? soooo not easy). This idea came to me upon sampling Vermont’s finest cider donuts, annnnnnnd I happen to love it.

2. White Chocolate Raspberry Cake

To make this cake, start with the regular french vanilla cake mix, following the directions on the back of the box. You’ll then want to add the following concoction:

To make this fiery bowl of goo, you’ll want to microwave 1.5 cups each of frozen raspberries and white chocolate chips for about 1-2 minutes. Once hot, smash up the raspberries and stir so that the chocolate chips melt completely.

3. Cinnamon Fudge Cake

Start with the dark chocolate fudge cake mix and follow the directions on the back. Add 1/2 tbsp cinnamon. DONE!

Once the cakes were made, Mr. Bubblegum and I tried each and decided which we liked. I then created a platter of cakes for each of us to bring to work:

The top left is the white chocolate raspberry, the right is the apple cider spice, and the bottom is (as if you couldn’t tell) the cinnamon chocolate.

People were voting on these ALL day, and to tell you the truth, different people just really loved different kinds (who knew?)! I had some people that were adamant that the white chocolate raspberry was the best while others literally told me that they hated it (hey, it’s a taste test, but I have feelings). Overall, the experience was great, because I learned that: 1) the white chocolate/raspberry cake was extremely dense and moist because of the added goo 2) I just really don’t care for chocolate cake.. probably mostly because I have trouble making a moist one 3) cinnamon does not stand a chance to be tasted against dark chocolate 4) apple cider creates cakey miracles.

And the winnnnner issssss………..

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APPLE CIDER SPICE CAKKKKKKKE!!!!

Which one do you think you’d like the best???