Our Final Vendor

April 14th, 2008 @ 11:18 am by Mrs. Hydrangea

Several weeks ago, after our first bakery trial wasn’t a 100% go in our book, we went to visit another. I decided to stray from the norm and I went to a local bakery that I knew made some really awesome cakes.

We arrived at Lakeview Bakery on a Friday afternoon and were happy to see some amazing samples in the show room and a comfy couch to sit on while we sampled these:

The cakes were REALLY yummy and we couldn’t believe how awesome some of their cakes are.

For the bride’s cake, we decided on an almond cake with a cream cheese frosting and Italian cream cake with a cream cheese frosting. We were going to try different flavors for each tier, but the owner made a good point by saying the more flavors you have, the more times your guests will want to go and try the cake, so the bigger cake you would need.

For the groom’s cake we weren’t totally sold on the two chocolate options they gave us, so they offered to make us another little cake of chocolate with caramel frosting to pick up the next week. We did, and we demolished the thing in one night (so fast that we couldn’t even take a pic)!

The bride’s cake will be 4 round tiers of white fondant with black fondant ribbon and our monogram. The groom’s cake will be a 2 tiered black fondant hexagonal cake with white fondant ribbon and white monogram. The monogram is slightly different then the one on our save the dates, as it will now have our last initial as well!

The tiers on the bride’s cake will be of varying heights similar to this April Reed cake on Miss Sundae’s post, only wider around:

Now all we have to do is find two cake stands that fit with our black and white theme, and can hold 40lbs of weight. Does anyone have any ideas???

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6 Responses to “Our Final Vendor”

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suzanno (message) 2,694 posts, Sugar bee

I am kind of intrigued by your baker’s assertion that you would need a lot more cake if you had more than one kind of cake, especially since its pretty common to have several kinds. We are having three different kinds, and all our baker did was to advise us on the appropriate ratios of the flavors, based on her experience of what goes first.

My sister had three different kinds of cake at her reception, and had no problem. While I know that some people had more than one serving, I also know that some people (as always happens) had none at all, and some people shared between them to get to taste all the flavors. I really don’t think that anybody is going to get three pieces of cake just because you have three kinds.

4/14/08 @ 11:39 am (reply)

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elizabeth

My first suggestion would be a restaurant supply store. You’ll get a good price and the folks working there will know what they’re talking about. Go where the pros go!

4/14/08 @ 11:52 am (reply)

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brendalynn (message) 154 posts, Blushing bee

just wanted to say that I like how you’ve incorporated the monograms with & without your (future) joint last names–how very elegant & proper of you! And I think they’re going to look awesome in reverse on the B&W cakes…

4/14/08 @ 3:24 pm (reply)

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Miss Chickadee (message) 208 posts, Helper bee

Miss H, I’m on the lookout for a cake stand like that too! Actually, that’s our inspiration cake! Gotta love April Reed I’m sending my mom out into the wide world of the Dallas metroplex with that cake stand in mind…I’ll let you know if she finds anything!