My maid of honor's sister has a certified food prep kitchen and bakes weekly for our local farmer's market. She's also done a handful of wedding cakes, and has now agreed to do our cake for just the cost of ingredients (possibly saving our budget in the process, which basically makes her my wedding superhero)!
We've decided that we're just going to do a few 1 or 2-tier cakes and then one center 3-tier cake (we'll have roughly 200 guests) to keep the stacking easy on her, which means we can have a few different flavors out.
What I need help with is this: She is willing to make pretty much any flavor cake we want. She asked us to come up with 4 or 5 combos we would like to try to get started. She'll bake a few for us to taste (and for her to familiarize herself with the recipe) and then we'll choose our favorite 2 or 3! I'm kind of excited about the freedom of choosing whatever we want, but now I'm also stumped by it! We've got about 10 months 'til the wedding, so we're not in a hurry here, but she also wants to practice the ones we choose a couple of times (for parties or just for her family), so she wants us to get started now.
Anyone have a cake flavor combo that was just the best thing ever? The two FI and I have thought of so far (and not even sure they're what we want to try) are some sort of chocolate/coffee combo and white cake with lemon curd filling and lemon buttercream.
What else?! Thanks for any help!