A couple of weekends ago, FMIL Pudding threw me the most wonderful wedding shower. It was literally the sweetest shower ever – so sweet in fact, that I need to break up my recollection of the event into two posts in fear of spiking your blood sugar levels.
So, I want to start with the setup. As you know, the shower took the form of a cake tasting, since FMIL Pudding is baking our wedding cake. And let me just say: We ate cake! Don’t believe me? Take a look:
FMIL Pudding really outdid herself – she made a total of 8 cakes! Here’s a list of what we were tasting (try not to drool all over your keyboard):
Starting with the cake in the top left corner:
- Raspberry Dew: Sponge cake with almond pastry, raspberry filling and raspberry buttercream.
- Chocolate Eclipse: German chocolate cake with coconut, pecan, and caramel filling and chocolate ganache.
- Caught in the Rain:Coconut cake with pineapple filling, toasted coconut dacquoise and cream cheese and white chocolate filling.
- Moon over Mansfield:Maple butter cake, walnut pastry and maple buttercream.
- Bella Noche:Tiramisu cake with white chocolate and cream cheese filling, Kahlua and espresso syrup and bittersweet chocolate.
- Blueberry Zinger: Lemon cake with blueberry filling and lemon buttercream.
- Poppy Sunrise: Orange poppy seed cake with orange buttercream filling and marmalade glaze.
- Midnight Express: Golden sponge cake with mocha buttercream, chocolate meringue and ganache.
All the cakes were delicious, but there were definitely a few stand outs. In the end, we decided on two cakes: one for the main wedding cake, and one for a sheet cake that will be served as dessert. Before I give you a play by play of the shower, and reveal the big winners, any guesses on the cakes that we chose? Which flavor would you choose?
This article was originally posted onWeddingbee.
