Weddingbee Blog

A couple of weekends ago, FMIL Pudding threw me the most wonderful wedding shower. It was literally the sweetest shower ever - so sweet in fact, that I need to break up my recollection of the event into two posts in fear of spiking your blood sugar levels.

So, I want to start with the setup. As you know, the shower took the form of a cake tasting, since FMIL Pudding is baking our wedding cake. And let me just say: We ate cake! Don’t believe me? Take a look:

FMIL Pudding really outdid herself - she made a total of 8 cakes! Here’s a list of what we were tasting (try not to drool all over your keyboard):

Starting with the cake in the top left corner:

• Raspberry Dew: Sponge cake with almond pastry, raspberry filling and raspberry buttercream.
• Chocolate Eclipse: German chocolate cake with coconut, pecan, and caramel filling and chocolate ganache.
• Caught in the Rain:Coconut cake with pineapple filling, toasted coconut dacquoise and cream cheese and white chocolate filling.
• Moon over Mansfield:Maple butter cake, walnut pastry and maple buttercream.
• Bella Noche:Tiramisu cake with white chocolate and cream cheese filling, Kahlua and espresso syrup and bittersweet chocolate.
• Blueberry Zinger: Lemon cake with blueberry filling and lemon buttercream.
• Poppy Sunrise: Orange poppy seed cake with orange buttercream filling and marmalade glaze.
• Midnight Express: Golden sponge cake with mocha buttercream, chocolate meringue and ganache.

All the cakes were delicious, but there were definitely a few stand outs. In the end, we decided on two cakes: one for the main wedding cake, and one for a sheet cake that will be served as dessert. Before I give you a play by play of the shower, and reveal the big winners, any guesses on the cakes that we chose? Which flavor would you choose?