Weddingbee Blog

I hate cake.  I always have. No, I’m not worried about bodily expansion, and it has nothing to do with the wrath of the dentist. It’s the texture – so spongy and dry. Don’t get me wrong, I love desserts. But my poisons are pies (especially pecan and marionberry!) ice cream, dark chocolate, and my very favorite: cookies. I am particularly drawn to big, squishy cookies, and, well, when the Girl Scouts start showing up with boxes of Tagalongs at my local grocery store, I have a very hard time walking past.

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At a very young age, my mom realized that I would turn my nose up at any birthday cake presented to me.

She quickly figured out a cookie-cake was the way to go – they’re pizza-sized cookies, iced with birthday wishes. I had often thought about how to handle the cake dilemma on my wedding day, long before I ever met Mr. Husky. I’d considered stacking several cookie-cakes together, and then icing them. But even I, a diehard cookie lover, didn’t like the thought of a cake-sized slice of pure, solid cookies. Once we became engaged, I became engrossed in wedding blogs, and began seeing card boxes created to look like cake replicas (see Miss Cola’s and Mrs Lamb’s).

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So we decided to have Cookie Cake v2.0. We ordered a set of nesting hat boxes from Consumer Crafts, and we’ll stack three of them to fill with cookies. The outside will be iced, just like your everyday cake, and then the inside will be filled with a variety of baked goodness. Back when the Girl Scouts were torturing me every time I tried to grocery shop, I purchased fifteen boxes of tagalongs – and immediately stashed them in my parents’ garage freezer so I don’t have to look at them!

So now I have the fillers for the top tier, but what about the other two? What are your favorite kinds of cookies? Would you be disappointed if there was no cake at a wedding you attended?