Weddingbee

I’m sorry I’ve been MIA lately—I’m in a last minute scramble for wedding stuff and I will have many things (programs, favors, escort cards) to share in the near future. In the meantime, I’ll give you some visuals of fantastical wedding cakes that make me hungry every time I see them.

Choosing our wedding cake was quite the process. My Mom used to bake/decorate cakes in Sri Lanka so she is obsessed with having an elaborate cake for the wedding. I think she’d make it herself if she wasn’t doing a zillion other things before the wedding. Our inspiration cakes were all elaborate and sari-like:

I have no idea where this image came from- let me know if it’s yours!

Sari Cake from Sugar Cakes

Image courtesy of Amy Squires

We went on over six of tastings but I’ll spare everyone a review of all of them. Let Them Eat Cake located in Costa Mesa, California was one of the bakeries that really stood out. They are food network challenge winners, and make beautiful cakes that also taste delicious. Mr. Margarita was floored with their cakes and didn’t believe they were real. He even took pictures on his cell and sent them to his parents. Their cakes were so gorgeous but pricey for the design we wanted, so we explored other options.

Geisha Cake

Wicked Witch Cake

After all the cake tastings, we ended up choosing Erica O’Brien Cake Designs based in Long Beach, California. Erica bakes all her cakes with only the best ingredients and will work with your budget. She completely customizes everything for you from design to flavors and will pretty much make anything you can dream of.

Some of Erica’s work courtesy of her website:

How cute is this cherry cake!

That’s a handmade sugar peony flower

You can choose three cake flavors so we picked vanilla bean, chocolate and almond (they even come in easy to eat cupcake form). You also get to choose five fillings to sample, and choose three from those. I mentioned that my mom loves toffee, so Erica experimented and created a delicious toffee filling just for her. In addition to the toffee, we choose chai butter cream, passion fruit, mango, and vanilla bean. The cake and the fillings were delicious and her mock drawing of our cake was just what we wanted. We decided on a cake with an orange background (like the Amy Squires picture above) and design lifted from our wedding invitation and my sari pattern. We ended up choosing the toffee, chai and mango fillings.

Did anyone else choose unusual cake flavors?

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