Wedding Cake

Lonny and I finally went cake testing.
Probably my favorite part of the wedding process other than trying on different dresses!

15 flavor to try!

Coffee in hand we met the owner and bakery chef who will be creating our cake.

Because we have about 150-180 guests we ended up with a four tier cake!

HOLY MOLY!

Since there are four layers we decided we would each pick two flavors.

After tasting 15 different cakes - trust me, it was hard restraining myself from licking the plate - we ended up with our flavors.

You can really see where Lonny and I differ in our taste palette for sweets.

I'm definitely on the lighter side:

Triple Vanilla Cake: Vanilla white cake filled with vanilla Bavarian Cream and frosted iwth vanilla butter-cream.

Strawberry Grand Marnier Cake: Vanilla genoise filled with fresh strawberries and Grand Marnier whipped cream

And Lonny has a very rich deep palette:

Red Velvet Cake: Faintly chocolate flavored cake tined with red food coloring and filled with our sweetened cream cheese filling and finished with vanilla butter-cream.

Devil's Food Cake: Devil food cake with chocolate mousse filling, frosted with vanilla butter-cream.

The bottom layer (one we're cutting) will be the Vanilla - Lonny brought up a good point that vanilla is neutral for those who don't like overly sweet cakes.

 So our guests can have a pick of their flavor but making vanilla the main cut.

Second layer is the Fresh Strawberry Grand Marnier.

Third layer is Red Velvet and the topping is the Devil's Food.

I had saved a couple cake pictures from Pinterest and we both agreed on this cake style.

I sent color swatches of our wedding colors for the cake.

Everything but the center brown swatch. Ombre daffodil to yellow to cream!

A few similar ombre cakes in our colors but the style is not what we're picking. 

I like how the pink ombre cake is smooth.

So with that our cake is set and I'm excited to see the final masterpiece.