CAKE

Sakalicious · June 2014

It's time to AW the cakes. Right nao.
We alternated layers: 2 chocolate with raspberry buttercream, 2 yellow with chocolate ganache. The bakery made a fresh top layer for our first anniversary, which was really nice!

[Deleted User] · June 2014

We absolutely loved our cake. We alternated layers as well. The first and the third layers were white amaretto cake with white chocolate mousse and raspberry filling. The second and fourth layers were dark chocolate cake with baileys chocolate mousse and chocolate ganache filling. YUM! We still have our top layer in our freezer for 5 more months : )

Swazzle · June 2014

I have no recollection of what flavors my cake was. My caterer sucked and the cake arrived pretty fucked up which I was informed of right after doing the first-look. I politely told them they could throw it in the trash if they wanted because I was too happy to care. My florist did her best to make it more presentable.

KeptInStitches · June 2014

I don't know what the cake will look like yet. It has to travel an hour in my parents' car (because my baker is cool and is letting us pick it up a day early), so it has to be something that travels well. It has to serve 112. Maybe cupcakes? Flavors are also up in the air since I haven't gone to the tasting yet. Looking forward to getting a lot of inspiration from this thread!

ShallowSeas · June 2014

This was our cake inspiration pic, only ours will be 3 layers and no flowers. The layers will be spice cake, white almond, and I think marble...I can't remember. Also, I was thinking about maybe making the little bead thingies mint to match the cake topper but can't decide if I want to do that or leave it all white...thoughts? opinions?

Dignity100 · June 2014

This is what my cake will look like.

Anybody want to help me out with flavors (I took a few options out that we already had vetoed)? The following are our choices: I was thinking of doing 1 tier of Chocolate cake w/peanut butter cup filling and 1 tier of marble w/ caramel milk chocolate filling. Is that too much chocolate though (or are both options too rich)?? A lot of people on the various Disney sites rave about an almond cake with the amaretto crunch filling.

Wedding Cake Flavors

Yellow
Chocolate
Marble
Almond

Wedding Cake Fillings

White Chocolate Mousse
Dark Chocolate Mousse
Milk Chocolate Mousse
Raspberry Mousse
Amaretto Mousse
Amaretto Mousse with Almond Crunch
Strawberry Mousse
Tropical Mousse (pineapple, passion fruit-mango, and lime mixed)
Caramel Milk Chocolate Mousse
Buttercream
Cream Cheese
Peanut Butter Cream Cheese
Peanut Butter Cup (dark chocolate and peanut butter cream cheese mousses layered together)
Bavarian Cream
Bailey’s Mousse
Mocha Mousse

lmcooper86 · June 2014

@severmilli12 - If you're keeping the rest of the decoration the same as the inspiration pic, then I would vote mint; give the cake a bit of pop.

I love looking at cake and thinking about cake but have no idea what kind of wedding cake we will have. The only thing I DO know is that I have to get a small fruitcake tier or my mother will disown me. Seriously, we've been having this fight since I was 16; she thinks that wedding cake should only be fruitcake and I think that I should actually want to eat my wedding cake. I've been telling her for like 10 years that she will get a small fruitcake tier and that's as far as I'm budging lol

doubleSS07 · June 2014

CAKE! Actually our cake was the one think I wanted to spend the least on. We were having a bunch of mini desserts and with about 80 people and a semi destination, I didn't want it to go to waste. We ended up getting it from Whole Foods for $50. It had buttercream frosting and a mixed berry filling with white cake. it was so yummy! We plan on having a small one replicated for our anniversary.

Sakalicious · June 2014

@doubleSS07 since we didn't go on our HM right away, they boxed up all the leftover cake for us. All. the. cake.

doubleSS07 · June 2014

I really wish we could have enjoyed more of our cake

We had traveled from TX to CA then flew out to the Dominican Republic the next day and then home to TX from there. H's family got all.the.cake.

cu97tiger · June 2014

@severmilli12 - personally I think the all white/cream color looks really elegant, so I'd keep it like that (or add colored flowers on the top instead of white/cream?).

Our cake alternated flavors: white almond cake with white almond infused buttercream for two, and red velvet with cream cheese filling for the other two.

Here's me sticking my head out from the 'getting ready' room.

During the reception

[Deleted User] · June 2014

my cake was alternating layers of chocolate/raspberry swirl with chocolate ganache filling and then chocolate cake with raspberry filling, and a chocolate buttercream icing. we decorated it ourselves after they delivered it. H's cake was a tres leches cake!

beanbot2002 · June 2014

I'm gonna AW one of Bean's birthday cakes since I don't have wedding cake to contribute. CAUSE I WANNA JOIN THE CAKE PARTY DAMMIT!

Sakalicious · June 2014

@swazzle my recollection of your cake is that it was delicious! SwazzleCake

buddysmom80 · June 2014

We have our cake tasting in August so for flavors I have no idea. I know there won't be chocolate because FI hates chocolate. I think one layer might be a fruit filling with a ganache and maybe another layer of just a chocolate filling because I love chocolate, I don't know, if there's too many choices I start getting overhwhelmed.

Here are some inspiration pictures of what we want:

We're ordering this topper and having it match us and our fur babies:

LINK

[Deleted User] · June 2014

Our cake was a Lemon Blueberry Cake with Vanilla Bean Butter Cream. Yum! I wanted something really simple/rustic and I didn't want to pay a ton for flowers. The succulents were fakes from Hobby Lobby and our birdies were from the Save On Crafts website. I love our birdies...they're actually on our baker's rack in the kitchen right now!

labro · June 2014

We're doing alternating layers - the first and third tier will be almond cake with raspberry filling and buttercream frosting. The second and fourth tiers will be spice cake with cream cheese and toffee candy filling and buttercream frosting. We're going for a naturally iced look and a cascade of fresh sahara roses provided by our florist.

Cake inspiration:

eilis1228 · June 2014

Man, I'm so hungry after looking at these. I may or may not be drooling at my desk...

Also, I had no clue you could do alternating layers! Mind is blown right now.

lilacck28 · June 2014

this is my dream cake. With little love birds on the top as a topper. Or maybe this one, since, buttercream, yum, but again, moving the top flowers down to the bottom layer and leaving room for a birdy topper:

lilacck28 · June 2014

@cu97tiger

Omg the quilting on your cake is fabulous! I was just talking about fondant quilting with my friend. He's really into baking and his mom just sent him an expensive piping set which he's very excited for.

Dignity100 · June 2014

If I stop home from work and buy cupcakes, I'm blaming ALL OF YOU GUYS (myself included)!!!!

BreMR · June 2014

@weewittlewizabeth I had no idea about the alternating layers either!! That's so cool!! I also had no idea there were so many cake options for wedding cake! I thought you got chocolate, vanilla, or marble mostly

eilis1228 · June 2014

BreMR said:

@weewittlewizabeth I had no idea about the alternating layers either!! That's so cool!! I also had no idea there were so many cake options for wedding cake! I thought you got chocolate, vanilla, or marble mostly

Me too! I can see why cake tastings are so important!

lennonkdc · June 2014

We are doing 3 flavors, white with raspberry, lemon with raspberry and a dark chocolate with chocolate ganache, all with a mascarpone buttercream, and our baker will make us a reproduction of the top layer for our anniversary! This is our inspiration, ours will only be 3 levels with our monogram on the top layer, with ribbons to decorate it instead of flowers.

Pepperally · June 2014

We just stopped into a bakery yesterday...me and FMIL...she wants to pay for the cake and edible favors. We're going back for a tasting next Wednesday. I wanted to eat cake!!! We're definitely trying the almond cake with raspberry filling...that seems to be what FMIL wants, and frankly I hate deciding on that...because, well, I would be happy with just about any flavors. They will give us a few other things to sample as well.

Here's an inspiration cake, mine will be much smaller with only 45 guests!

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