Inspiration cake from Project Wedding
My good friend Markianna is getting married in August and she has asked me to make her wedding cake. I’m very excited and have been making all kinds of plans and doing wedding cake research – how to stack it, decorate it, move it, cut it… It’s a small wedding (only about 55 people) and the “inspiration cake” (above) is quite simple and rustic, so baking and decorating it should be fairly straight-forward.
It’s not like I have to make a 7-tiered cake to feed 360 (really, Martha has DIY instructions for this!):
Or paint a stained glass design on it:
Or pipe swirls and grape clusters all over it:
(This one is made by Margaret Braun, who is a cake superstar. I have her book. It is AMAZING.)
Thank goodness for that.
No, for me, the overwhelming part is not the making or decorating of the cake. The overwhelming part is deciding on what kind of cake to make. The bride and groom have given me free-reign in the flavour department (one less thing for them to worry about, and apparently I’m “the expert”), but of course now I am paralysed with indecision about what flavours to choose. So, people of the internet, I am relying on you: please tell what kind of cake I should make!
Keeping in mind that I want the cake to look pretty when sliced (ie, colour contrast) and also that I want the outer layer of frosting to be white (I think!), the combinations that I have come up with are as follows:
1) Lemon cake with raspberry compote filling and cream cheese frosting (or plain white buttercream?)
2) Butter cake with caramel and chocolate fillings and vanilla buttercream frosting (or maybe chocolate?)
3) Coconut cake with chocolate filling and white buttercream frosting (or 7-minute frosting?), decorated with shredded coconut curls
4) Chocolate cake with mocha filling and vanilla buttercream frosting (or maybe chocolate?)
So which one should I make? Please leave your feedback in the comments!
#2.
Definitely option 1!!!
I think the stain glass looks really neat!
I know, isn’t it beautiful? The other cakes that she (Maggie Austin) does are equally gorgeous.
I’d go with the lemon-raspberry combo. How great that Markianna wants you to make her cake. So cool. She’s got good taste!! 🙂 You’ll do a fantastic job, I just know it! XO
the chocolate one!
They all sound wonderful. Lemon is so summery though.
I’m voting lemon too.
Haha, this is awesome. This post made my day.
Also… I’m sorry about the paralyzing you with indecision! I thought I was being the cool, easy going bride 😉
I’m so stoked to eat this cake on my wedding day, whichever flavor it ends up being 🙂
Like James Barber said, “cooking is the simplest way of saying I love you.”
x
Pfft, don’t be sorry, it’s my problem that I can’t make a decision! You are being cool and easy going – I’m just being ridiculous 😛
Love that quote!
Hey! So I realize I’m a little late to the party, but my vote would definitely go for #3 – for no reason other than the selfish one that I’m a coconut fiend. Yum!
However, it probably doesn’t matter too much in a way, because they all sound really freaking amazing!