Let them eat cake
Revised, shorter version...
M and I went cake tasting, and found ourselves in the sticky situation of trying to incorporate all the delicious flavors we tried into our future cake! One of the ones I really wanted to try wasn't available today, so we're having it made up as a birthday cake for me (Yay!) this coming July.
Long story short, the local bakery near our venue is amazing. We had a nice afternoon of driving up to the mountains, hanging out in town, and chatting with the lively, bon vivant baker and tasting his wares.
We priced out our cake, put down a deposit, and have been gleefully tap-dancing all evening over finding an awesome baker whose quote came in at roughly half of our allotted budget. Yippee!
6 comments:
oh, the wonders of tiered cakes. get each tier a different flavor! =D
Mommy likes cake. Can I come to your birthday party?
For flavors, we're thinking:
Chocolate chiffon cake with hazelnut cream and raspberry
White chiffon cake with Belgian chocolate mousse, vanilla custard, and a thin spread of raspberry
And either
A) White chiffon cake with lemon cream (and a thin spread of raspberry)
or
B) White chiffon cake with Grand Marnier cream
B is more expensive, and we haven't tried it yet. But A is excellent. If we go with A, then all of our flavors will be house cakes (yay, no extra cost).
Mmm, tasty. M's not even a cake person, and he's looking forward to the wedding cake.
mmm....it all sounds tasty. i approve of anything with the words chocolate, chiffon, hazelnut, and raspberry. *nods*
sounds good to me, too!
Should I try to coordinate my summer visit to coincide with our birthdays, then?
I still try to keep my birthday really small and quiet, so if you're visiting around then don't expect me to have a big party with a lot of people at our place. This year has been especially busy, stressful, and is planned out way in advance. I'd really like something low key, that doesn't require me to coordinate a lot of people, details, or menus or hurry to clean up the house so we can host a party.
And since it's 6 months away, I feel I've given ample notice to all parties involved.
But I'd be happy to hand out the bakery info to anyone who wants their very own pre-wedding cake to try. If not, you've got about nine months to wait until the wedding. That's plenty of time to build up unrealistic expectations of pastry excellence! ;)
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