This is sort of piggy-backing off of the cake topper thread, but who doesn't love to talk about cake/desserts?
Are you having a cake? Cupcakes? some other featured dessert?
What flavors are you doing?
How big is it, or how many will it serve?
Are you having it as your only dessert or do you have other desserts as well?
How will it be decorated? Show us some inspiration pics!
Re: All things cake...
I guess I should start?
We're having white almond cake with raspberry jam filling. Iced with Italian buttercream. It's going to have that spackled effect to it with a little bit of iced beading where the tiers meet. It will serve 60 but we're only having around 45 or less so they will get decent sized slices. The cake is going to be our dessert. We are giving wrapped, cinnamon swirl mini-loafs as a favor, but the cake is the only dessert being served.
Here's how my cake will look, except with the spackled icing texture and the flowers at the top will be some ivory hydrangea and a purple dahlia. It will also be three tiers like the pic.
Champagne cake with strawberry filling
Chocolate cake with chocolate mousse filling
Spice cake with cream cheese
And just in case that isn't enough, my FI loves cookies so we are going to fore-go the groom's cake and have a cookie bar instead.
The cake will serve 135 people (we're inviting 150). It's a simple design - frosted layers of butter-cream with flowers placed around and flowers on top. Our colors are berry, soft pink, and ivory with hints of gold.
I'm still deciding in between flavors - here is what I've narrowed it down to:
Almond w/Amaretto Crunch Mousse filling
Chocolate w/ Peanut Butter Mousse filling
Chocolate w/Milk Chocolate Caramel Mousse filling (or maybe marble cake)
We will be having a dessert party. I have to talk to my planner on this, but these are what I would like for my desserts:
Tiramisu
Chocolate Peanut Butter Marshmallow Bars
School Bread (sweet bread roll injected w/vanilla pudding)
Fresh Fruit Tray
There are a few others, but those are the ones I'm excited about!
We are having a 3 tier round cake, buttercream frosting and strawberry banana filling. yum!
Wow, lots of great flavor combinations and cake-alternatives! I think pies are very "fall" to me so that sounds awesome!
@Dignity100 - you have quite a tough decision with those flavors!!!
To be honest, I preferred the flavor of vanilla cake with a dulce de leche caramel filling, I thought it was more "fall", but FI and FMIL were really set on the white almond w/ raspberry. I like both so it wasn't too big of a deal, but felt what we chose is more "typical" or expected.
@beachyone15 - Spice cake is definitely fall! I thought about pumpkin loafs as our favor but I thought cinnamon had a little bit more universal appeal. Plus sometimes in the fall EVERYTHING is pumpkin flavored...coffee, muffins, etc., so I just went for cinnamon.
@kebebb - I LOVE SNICKERDOODLES!!!! I almost thought about doing those as favors...a snickerdoodle and a peanut butter blossom...my favorite + his favorite cookies.
@wajohnson09 - now that is quite interesting and unique...strawberry banana. I've never even seen that as a choice with the bakeries I've looked at.
We are so also having a candy Bar of Halloween candy with our evening buffet
FI and his family used to own a bakery, so FI is making tarts for dessert - apple, strawberry, and rhubarb. We're on the fence about doing cake cutting pictures, since we're not having cake for dessert, but it's a tradition in my family for my aunt to make wedding cakes (she's amazing). We might have her do a non-edible one just for presentation. Tarts all the way!