What flavors are you using??

pandabear322

We picked our flavors and fillings! 

1st Tier- Red Velvet with Cream Cheese Filling (My mother is unhappy about this =] )

2nd Tier- Strawberry Cake with Cherry Filling
 
Top Tier - Red Velvet with Cream Cheese Filling


Can you tell we love the red velvet and cream cheese??? lol

janedoe1113a

Yay!  Very exciting!

Bottom tier -- Yellow cake with raspberry filling

Middle tier -- Yellow cake with buttercream filling

Top tier -- Yellow cake with rapsberry filling

The entire cake will be covered in buttercream frosting.  We're going to be saving the top tier for our anniversary.

angel2210

All three tiers are going to be chocolate with peanut butter filling. Chocolate cake was the one and only thing I wouldn't budge on. However, because I know some people don't like chocolate or are allergic to peanuts, I'll be ordering a groom's cake. Not sure on the flavor of that though.

aubreyalise

all 3 tiers are actually going to be key lime. it's a "light" key lime so hopefully it's neutral enough for everyone. it is our cake lady's signature flavor and delicious!

my grooms cake will be chocolate, although i don't know if that'll be at the ceremony or the RD. my original plan was the RD, but the details on that keep changing so i may just opt for the ceremony.

future-mrs

So far we're doing pumpkin cupcakes and  red velvet cupcakes with cream cheese frosting.  We're doing a chocolate peanut butter groom's cake with a WoW theme.  And then mom and I have discussed doing a small 2-tiered vanilla cake for those that don't like a bunch of different things...not sure about that though. 

Either way, FI and I love our sweets!!!!

Robinischo

All four tiers are Lemon-Lemon Chiffon with Fresh Lemon Syrup, Homemade Lemon Curd, and Italian Buttercream. We tried 3 kinds.  The others were kind of blah, but this one was amazing!   We're saving our top tier for our 1-year anniversary even though they advised us against it.  We're also looking into getting some sort of cheesecake bites.

katymarie101

My brother is doing our cake for free the only thing is I don't get a say in it at all. But I do know that the grooms cake is  Chocolat and in the shape of a Top Hat.

meredithl618

I had really wanted to do different flavors for the different tiers but our cake baker talked us out of it. She said that we would need to increase the number of servings because people always see other flavors they want and have to go back and get that flavor. 

I don't want to have to deal with that so we're doing white cake with french vanilla mousse and fresh strawberries. It's soo delish and refreshing!  For the top tier though, we're going to do almond pound cake for ourselves.... yum!

luckyme502

bottom tier is lemon cake with raspberry filling, the second and third tier are red velvelt cake. 

debdebdol

I think we are going with Lemon Meyer, red velvet and chocolate.

We haven't done any cake tasings yet (other than at bridal shows we have been to).  Is it premature to contact bakeries to do a cake tasting if we have 7-1/2 months til the big day?

Alley2b

My mom, her two sisters, and I are making the wedding cake ourselves (yes, we practice... I promise) After several taste testings and test bakes, we decided on...

Cream Cheese Frosting

Lemon Cake (on all 4 tiers) 

Raspberry Cream Cheese Filling (with real raspberries!) 

We've made several of these cakes for bake sales and parties, and everyone loves this the best! 

Yum!

Dana H. 

cukimerrydoll

We haven't decided yet... but I know at least part will be red velvet.  It's the only kind of cake that I really like!  And it's amazing!

ashleylacour

We are doing French vanilla with mascarpone cheese filling for the main tier, fresh strawberry with cream cheese filling for the second, pina colada with cocunut filling for the third, and chocolate pistachio with espresso filling for the forth.  We did a tasting and I must admit I was obsessed with all of them. She has like 16 different options and they were all amazing.

jma1983

We are doing Chocolate on the bottome tier, White for the middle tier and Lemon with Raspberry filling for the top tier.  And it'll all be in almond buttercream frosting.  Then the grooms cake will be white cake with regular buttercream.  As I'm reading all of these, that red velvet sure sounds good.  Maybe I'll switch out my middle tier for red velvet since we'll have white on the groom's cake. 

Marsarah

The bottom layer is lemon creme (like the lemon creme cake from the Olive Garden). The second layer is chocolate with green mint creme, and the top layer is chocolate with chocolate fudge. I'm making banana chocolate macadamia nut biscotti for wedding favors. We're aren't saving the top layer because we are doing a destination wedding. The whole cake will have vanilla buttercream frosting, and each tier will be covered in fresh blackberries, blueberries, raspberries and strawberries. I can hardly wait!

mflowers929

My actual bottom layer will be a dummy cake, the first edible bottom layer will be carrot cake, I haven't decided on the middle layer yet, and the top layer will be vanilla which will be frozen for our anniversary
We'll be doing it all in a buttercream (with the exception of the carrot cake layer which will be cream cheese icing) since I hate the texture of fondant.

samanthabowmen

OMG I love the peanut butter idea mentioned above... wish i had thought of that! only thing is some guests may have allergies...

jelata

We're doing while cake with cream cheese mousse for the bottom tier because it was really light and should please the masses. Then we're going with white chocolate with rasberry mousse for the second which was my FI favorite and we loved that it was fresh rasberrys but none of the seeds. And the top tier is going to be spice cake with cinnamon apple filling which I loved. I agree that buttercream frosting for the whole cake is the way to go, even marshmallow fondant just feels like eating playdoh.

hmr2001

We are doing cupcakes and we get to choose four flavors.  We're trying to narrow it down from: italian butter rum, chocolate cappucino, chocolate kahlua, lemon citrus, carrot cake, and chocolate decadence.  They all have cream cheese frosting.  The italian butter rum is a winner--by far the best cake I've ever tasted.

anna.oskar

We did white cake with a butterscotch-buttercream filling, buttercream icing and fondant accents.

beccastu06

Bottom tier - white almond sour cream cake with key lime filing, with one layer of seedless raspberry

middle tier - strawberry cake (pink) with bavarian vanilla filling

top tier (to freeze & save) - half of each!

Buttercream on the outside, no fondant.

it's a kinda crazy combo, but we love it!  :-)  can't WAIT!!!

jinky04605

We are doing the top and bottom tier with white cake and raspberry filling and the middle tier marble cake with raspberry filling.  It will have white buttercream frosting on it. 

Future.Mrs.Carter

In general I'm not a cake person, so I wasn't so excited about the cake tastings. However our baker is amazing. At the tasting she said "You know they say never to trust a skinny baker!" (she's a little plump but none the less gorgeous)

Here's what she's whipping up for us:

Vanilla Butter Cake with Strawberry Filling

Chocolate Butter Cake with Raspberry Filling

Both with Cream Cheese Frosting

Her cake is to die for if you're getting hitched in Portland like we are go check Wendi out. (http://www.eatsweetreats.com/)

zbritgirl

I LOVE Red velvet and cream cheese too!

1 tier - Choc w/ choc mousse (because we are having the same for the grooms cake we decided to make this the smallest)

2 tier - White Cake with Rasp and french pastry cream filling

3 tier - Red velvet with cream cheese

It took us FOREVER to find a baker who did red velvet! Very excited

We aren't going to save our top tier because our baker gives us a free anniversary cake!

zbritgirl

No Way! Our baker recommended that we come in 8 months before to do the tasting, but we booked them 1 year in advance.

latashaphillips81

we are doing a square 4 tier cake with buttercream icing and cream cheese filling (i dont even like cream cheese) but when we for our cake testing it was soooo delicious  and for my FI's cake we are using the german chocolate buttercream with chocolate icing!! he absolutely loved it too

gldylocks01

We aren't using flavored fillings. We decided to keep it simple, and the cost down! However, we are having chocolate cake, frosting, then yellow cake for each layer. That way, when you get a piece of cake you can choose which kind you want to eat, or both!

snoangel79

Going on Saturday to the tasting
But, I know she has chocolate with peanut butter and that will probably be a front runner for us considering we both love reese's!

Future-Mrs. from Kansas City, what an idea a wow groom cake hahaha I may have to steal that, my fiance is borderline obsessed with that game.

rgeddy

french vanilla w/ espresso filling. w/ buttercream

JMU_Bride09

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[QUOTE]We picked our flavors and fillings!  1st Tier- Red Velvet with Cream Cheese Filling (My mother is unhappy about this =] ) 2nd Tier- Strawberry Cake with Cherry Filling   Top Tier - Red Velvet with Cream Cheese Filling Can you tell we love the red velvet and cream cheese??? lol
Posted by pandabear322[/QUOTE]

It amuses me that you have a smily face after "my mother is unhappy about this" haha

Rita092010

Mmmm...we are doing champagne cupcakes with chocolate buttercream frosting...yummy!