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Wednesday, February 9, 2011

The Cake

When Sweeter and I went up North for me to try on my wedding dress
{i.e. the one I am wearing on our wedding day}
{i.e. not a sample}
{i.e. the most beautiful dress ever}
Sadly, I won't be sharing any wedding dress pictures until after the wedding...

We stopped at a bakery and we tasted cake flavors!

My Madre and I went to taste cakes in December before he got home from his deployment. And when we were tasting the cakes, there was a cake flavor and a filling from another one that we really liked so we asked the bakery to create a new cake for us.
So Sweeter and I went and tasted the new flavor and since we were there I figured that we should try them all and we could pick our flavors then and there!

So we tasted cakes!
Wow!
It was amazing!
We loved it!


The bakery pretty much gives an entire piece of each flavor to try!
What?!
How delicious to they all look!! 
Yummy!

We decided on 3 different flavors.
We also decided that cakes are ridiculously expensive and so we are going to have a small cake for display and to cut in to and the rest of them are going to be sheet cakes. This way it will be a little less expensive.
We decided that the cake that we cut in to will be a coconut cake with a coconut filling (the slice in the middle of the big plate  that is right below the carrot cake) and the other 2 flavors will be in sheet cake form. We decided on a chocolatey and a not so chocolately :-) One will be the one my Madre and I had made {which is the single slice on the lone plate which} it is an almond cake with a chocolate/caramel filling and the other one is a red velvet cake with a hazelnut filling {the one next to the fork on the plate...the one that is most eaten :-)}

All of this is happening so quickly now!
I feel like we have been engaged for so long and we haven't had to rush anything and now all of a sudden we are less than 4 months away!
Yay!
This is all so exciting! 

Invitations are on deck!
I can't wait to share when the designs are finalized!

I wish you all a Tip Top Tuesday! 

15 comments:

ty said...

The sheet cake idea is SO smart. And the red velvet sounds DELICIOUS!

Melissa Jo said...

I love the sheet cake idea. Your taste profile sounds delish too!

Melissa Jo said...

I love the sheet cake idea. Your taste profile sounds delish too!

jeanette from everton terrace said...

Oh my goodness they all sound fabulous. The almond cake is seriously making me drool.

Stacy said...

AGREED! It seems like we've been engaged FOREVER too, and now it's time to rushrushrush everything!
HAPPY PLANNING TO YOU!

Lindsay @ la vita dolce said...

aww so exciting!!!! i am so happy for you and excited. I cannot believe it is so soon. the time will come so fast, make sure you take it all in :)

sara [at] journey of doing said...

Oh man. That sounds SO tasty and looks SO good!! Can't wait to see all the finished products!

Rebekah said...

Yum! I loved cake testing. It was so much fun...and good! Are you guys doing a grooms cake, or is that not really done up here?

Unknown said...

That is exactly what we did at our wedding. Great idea!

Jessica said...

I love the idea of a small display cake and then sheet cakes to serve from. :)

Jamie Leigh said...

YAY for cake tasting. My fiance and I just recently had one, and were thinking of going with the small tier cake and then cupcakes for the guests! Sheet cakes are also a great idea! Your wedding is coming fast, how exciting!

Anonymous said...

im glad everything is coming together!! :)

Crownd Vic said...

Oh we have our cake tasting on Friday! yippee!
what fun :)

Adrienne Gomer said...

Justin and I did the same thing with the cake, ordered 1 to cut and 2 sheet cakes and we ended up with an entire sheet cake left over! Everyone got a piece and only 1 cake was eaten. Oops. It still saves a ton of money that way though.

Crazy Shenanigans-JMO said...

How exciting! I bet that cake tasted soooo good!