Miss Cupcake, Philadelphia
Age and Occupation: 27, Graphic Designer
Fiance's Age and Occupation: 29, Construction Project Manager
Engagement Date: February 10, 2007
Wedding Date: September, 2008
Blogging Since: December 7, 2007
Venue: The Desmond Hotel in Malvern, PA
About Me: Mr. Cupcake and I hit it off at a Halloween party and immediately began a long-distance relationship. After two years, he moved to my neck of the woods, and a year and a half after that, he proposed at the “place we fell in love.” I am a true perfectionist who enjoys designing and creating more work for myself, so wedding planning is my perfect outlet. Mr. Cupcake and I are both old souls, and we hope to weave that aspect of our personalities into our wedding day.
Cake, Revisited
July 18th, 2008 @ 9:29 am by Miss Cupcake
Let’s face it: the cake is pretty much the most fun part of wedding planning. I mean, what about the wedding cake isn’t fun? It’s pretty, it’s yummy, and it has two of my favorite ingredients: sugar and butter. Mmm.
A while back I had posted about the fabulousness that is Sweet Jazmine’s, and our desire for a cake that looks like a hybrid of these two:
by April Reed
by Papillon
But then, my constant need for something unique got the best of me, and I decided that I wanted to use these cakes as inspiration for creating our own one-of-a-kind cake design.
So with a lot of thought and a quick little rendering in Adobe Illustrator, I came up with this cake design:
The quilting effect on the bottom and top tiers emulate a design detail on our invitations (which you will see soon, I promise! :)), while the middle tier with the teal ribbon accent and the “seal” with our names is a cute little personalized detail. I know that monograms tend to be all the rage these days, but I wanted to do something a little different (shocker, I know!) and I think our names look cute. The middle tier pays homage to the April Reed cake design, which was the one detail that Mr. Cupcake really liked and wanted to keep. The cake will also be topped with a cluster of white flowers, which I didn’t think were necessary to illustrate 
Kim and Brooke, the lovely ladies at Sweet Jazmine’s, liked my little sketch (or, at least, if they thought it was OCD of me, they didn’t let on one bit). They will use it as a guide for creating our uber-delicious lemon delight cake, which will be two layers of lemon pound cake and one layer of lemon curd and lemon buttercream.
Are you having your baker copy a cake design that you love, or are you using your favorite cake designs as inspiration for something unique?
8 Responses to “Cake, Revisited”
Your cake is going to be so beautiful! And I love the “seal” with your names detail
I love your cake design!! What material would the seal be made out of? Paper or fondant?
Love it! Simple and sweet and can’t wait to bite into that yumminess!
I love it! I really like the seal as well. Are they going to hand paint the names or make some sort of transfer for the fondant or are you doing it out of something like paper, ceramic, etc. so that you could keep it?
I had a black and white scrolly-print kleenex box in my office. When I started designing my cake, I realized it was the exact design I wanted. I deconstructed the box and gave a piece to the baker and my wedding planner. :0)
Very very cute!
@Carolyn: Haha - I love that you got your cake inspiration from a Kleenex box! That’s awesome!
lovely! we’re going with something simple and organic in design, so i suppose it’s unique in that way, but we’re definitely primarily focused on the deliciousness. that said, i love your inspiration pics - the second shot made me consider giving over my staunch opposition to fondant… *sigh*
