Wedding Fridays | Let’s Talk About Cake Baby

Yummy! I could talk about cakes all day long as I have quite the sweet tooth however I will try to keep this short and sweet. Craig doesn’t have nearly the affection for cake goodness so he is leaving this decision in my hands. Muhaha. ;) When it comes to our wedding cake I want to keep it simple and on the smaller side. Since our wedding will be backyard, handmade chic and casual, I don’t think a 5 tier cake will look fitting. I really like the look of just 2 or 3  round tiers that are uneven in height but not slanted like the Ace of Cake type kinds. Classic and yummy and smashed in Craig’s face! (Oh yeah there will be cake face smashing!)

I do like the look of both butter cream frosting and fondant and have heard that fondant can taste pretty good. However to save costs we will just stick with butter cream.  I like when the butter cream is applied in a pattern like the two cakes below.  I am really in love with the top left cake in the picture below.  I could just picture our cake with red dahlia flowers and pretty ribbon to match the ribbon through out the event.

For the cake stand I like the look of a simple glass or milk glass stand.  The two below are 11.5 inches in diameter and would look so lovely with a ribbon tied around the base.  Since our cake will be on the smaller size I think this is doable.  From what I have read a 3 tier cake will feed about 50-75 people so that is a bit on the small size for our wedding of about 100-120 guests.  My plan is to have a sheet cake in the back for extra cake.  It won’t necessarily save us money because it will be the same kind of cake but will help me stick to my small cake vision.  My family, like me, are big sweets lovers so I am sure there will be little leftover.

We won’t need to save the top tier because a lot of bakeries offer fresh cakes on your one year anniversary.  I have heard that one year old cakes are never as yummy as you think.  I have made a few appointments with local bakeries in the next few weeks to go cake tasting and get pricing.  I haven’t even thought about cake flavors and fillings but I am not a big chocolate fan so our cake will most likely be other flavors.  I will be sure to update you all when we have booked a vendor and finalize cake flavors and the design.  I just love checking off wedding to dos and getting vendors booked.

image credits: Josh Goleman Photography | Maggie Austin Cake | Isabel Lawrence Photographers | SMS Photography | Crate and Barrel | Barking Sands Vintage