Cake talk!!!!

alright, ladies. It's crunch time. Time to figure out what flavor of cake you would love to smoosh into one another's faces.




Cake Flavors:
Vanilla
Lemon
Chocolate
Mocha
Champagne
Margarita


Fillings/ Curds:
Lemon Curd
Lime Curd (key limes, probably)
Orange Curd
Mango Curd
strawberry curd

Fillings/ pastry cremes:
Vanilla
Chocolate
Caramel
Mocha

Fillings/ Fruit:
Strawberry
Raspberry
Banana


Here are some things to keep in mind-- we are icing the whole thing in a Swiss Meringue Buttercream, which will leave us with a TON of egg yolks. In that vein, it makes the most sense to incorporate them into some kind of curd filling. However, each tier of the cake will have 4 layers, so all the layers don't need to be filled with the same filling. For example, we could do a champagne cake with alternating layers of orange curd and vanilla pastry cream for a mimosa-esque experience. Or we could do a margarita cake with layers of lime curd and strawberry fruit filling.

We'll get more bang for out buck by making a curd, too. 

It will be easier to choose just one cake flavor and one filling flavor. But its your freakin' wedding, so shoot for the moon, ladies.

once we have the flavors picked out, I'll put together the ingredients list and we'll price the whole thing out. Get ready, we're going to go through a few dozen eggs and several pounds of butter.... also, if you can track down a stand mixer (or two) this whole thing will go a lot faster. We'll touch base on Saturday.

Flowers!

For the buying of wholesale flowers, the best prices seem to be on Wedding Flowers of America
and Costco.


Ultimately, we are looking to make the centerpieces and the bridal bouquets as round "puff ball" style arrangements with blue accents.

hydrangeas already grow in puff ball form

The white puffball base can be constructed from white carnations, white roses, or white hydrangea, whichever we can find the best price for.

but you can get a similar effect with enough carnations

or roses, if you can get a good price on them

For the blue accents, delphinium are dependable, but I saw anemones available in blue on the WFA site that I think could be gorgeous. They didn't have a color swatch available on the site, but I imagine they would look something like this

Then, for the bridesmaids flowers, we grab some white football mums, or peonies.

Cake

Ok. So here's what I think would be the simplest and most elegant. Especially since you two are going with a black dress and a white dress (which is very chic)

Buttercream frosted chocolate cake, black satin ribbon

White frosting, black satin ribbon.

But yours will be 3 tiers:

and we can add flowers (imagine that these are blue, not white):

 

Considering that this is just a white cake, too, and not something too crazy, we could probably do a fondant (like the center picture) that we could easily make out of marshmallows.

What do you think for cake toppers?

If we do just a simple white cake with black ribbon at the bottom of each tier, and some of your blue flowers, I think it would be very elegant to do the cake topper as two love birds.

or blue birds.

 

Or Blue Love Birds.

these can be painted your shade of blue

Then we have some built in themes for centerpieces/ favors:

Like this from Martha Stewart. But these could be done as part of your centerpieces, rather than having one at each place setting. 

Even if you don't do the nests, I like the birds : ) --mk