Wedding Blog

I love cake. There is nothing better than a great little bit of it. Moist pastry, creamy icing, just sweet enough to satisfy but not rot your teeth - it’s the perfect dessert!

As I’ve mentioned previously, with Mr. Hummingbird being a bit of a Star Wars geek and me wanting to show off some personality in our wedding, we decided to have our cake as an Ewok Village cake, complete with a Han Solo and Leia topper.

Originally, when we first started planning, I saw a great picture of a tree trunk cake and thought that, with our outdoor location, this would be the perfect choice for us, especially were we to get two little birdy toppers. However, the more time went on, the more I really wanted Mr. Hummingbird to have something he could be excited about too, so I thought it would be cool to kind of change up the tree trunk cake idea into an Endor Village, complete with Han, Leia and a gaggle of Ewoks* (Do you call a gathering of Ewoks a gaggle? I’m not sure what the term is for a group of them).

However, again this idea was changed slightly when we had our engagement party and realized that our massive cakes ended up going to waste. So instead, we’ve decided to go the cupcake tree route. Because the servings won’t be as massive (the pieces of cake for our engagement were seriously too big), we’re hoping that we’ll have less left over and, if we do our cake as cupcakes, we might be able to do more than one flavour to satisfy our guests.

Anyway, as a wedding present, my Man of Honour Greg has agreed to make our cake(s) for us and we’re preparing to do a “demo cake” when I go home for Christmas, but I realized the other day when we were having a discussion about it that I’m not quite sure how I want to set things up in terms of our cupcake tree.

So, it is with much excitement that I present my possible cupcake tree diagrams! I do not have an arts background and therefore did them with MS Paint, so please don’t make too much fun of how crappily I draw.**

Option 1: The Single Stander - The option displays three tiers of cupcakes and features a small cake on top for cutting purposes.

Option 2: The Double Dose - This option would not only increase cupcake space, but would include a little rope bridge between the two towers. (Though I have not pictured them, Leia and Han would either be on the table in between the two columns or on the bridge depending on how big it was)

Option 3: The Double Dose Deluxe - You get the two towers, the bridge and the cutting cake from the Single Stander.

Option 4: The Split Level Stander - This encorporates the cutting cake back onto the tiered towers and but its asymmetry looks a little less conventional than some of the other cake pictures.

So ladies, what option would you go for?

1) The Single Stander
2) The Double Dose
3) The Double Dose Deluxe
4) The Split Level Stander

I am going to make the cake stands myself so I’m crossing my fingers (such as they are) that they’ll turn out okay!

* The Ewoks are not accounted for in the illustrations as we are currently on the hunt for Ewok figurines.
** I am not expecting complete mercy as I do realize how ghetto these looks.