Katie sent me a bunch of photos from The Knot of cakes she likes. I asked her to narrow them down to 3 and she narrowed them down to...8. Haha. These are just ideas and I'm still not sure what route I want to take.
KATIE'S FAVES:
She thinks the cutest is the one with orange flowers in the bottom left corner.
LIZ'S FAVES (Not that what I think matters when it is her wedding!)
I like both the first one and the bottom one with buttercream the most.
So many ideas are swirling in my head. The cake will be either 1 or 2 tiers. I am leaning toward 2 small tiers. I am also one of Katie's bridesmaids, so that is the main reason I don't want to take on more than I can handle. I'm not sure if I want to do a finished-looking all frosting cake or attempt fondant.
When I saw Katie's dress it gave me an idea for the cake that would mimic her dress. The cake would be an all shimmery champagne color on the bottom layer and the top would be ivory and mimic lace. Just an idea.
What do you think? Which cakes do you like? Do you have any cool ideas or amazing cakes you've seen that would be good inspiration?
In other cake/cupcake news:
- Using one of my many Michael's gift cards, I signed up for a beginning cake decorating class. It was kind of a process because I had to wait for them to print out all of the documents. I just kind of assumed the class was on Tuesday or Wednesday. When I got home I looked at the flier and the class is on Fridays from 6:30 to 8:30 pm. I am not going to take 4 classes on a Friday night! Boo!
- My friend Sarah had a gathering for high school friends a couple weeks ago. She recently made her own kitchen island (crazy awesome) and joked about it being an Island Party. I took this as a reason to make island-themed cupcakes. I was also filled with longing for Hawaii at the time. Check out the results on Sarah's blog. Here is a photo Justin took:
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4 comments:
What a neat post! Thank you for sharing!
I like the last one of your picks and the first one of Katie's picks. What an exciting project!
I agree with Jill about liking the first of Katie's picks, but not sure I like the last of yours--at least not if you are only doing a couple of tiers. I think you need to look at shape if you are only going to do two tiers. Round doesn"t necessarily work for that , but the square does--and you can offset the shapes.
Who is going to do the rest of the cake if you're only doing the presentation cake?
Better get those classes done! LOL. Actually, they are a lot of fun. I made a volkswagen bug for one of mine.
Love the island cupcakes!!! I also like the first one of your picks.
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