Let them eat cake!

{cake!}

Well, yesterday was Easter with Adam's family...and after stuffing our faces with ham, potatoes, broccoli casserole, and "bunny-rolls," Adam and I got to do our official cake-testing! 

Adam's aunt, Cheryl, kindly offered to make our wedding cake. Seeing as cake-making has been a profession of hers for 27 years (her first creation being her own wedding cake!), and she is family, we couldn't turn down the offer. 

A few posts back I had expressed my desire for cupcakes---I loved the look of the cupcake tree, and enjoyed the cute'ness of just-right eating portions, but was told cupcakes were too much work. So Adam and I, despite being the not-too-into-cake people that we are, decided to just go the easy route and opt for a friggin' cake. Being all together at Aunty Cheryl's place yesterday made it the perfect time to talk about the numerous possibilities, our likes / dislikes, check out Cheryl's photo albums o' cakes she has made in the past,  and decide which flavor we'd most enjoy. 

Decided a three-tier cake is as big as we wanna go----the bottom layer being 12" in diameter, the second layer being 8" and the third layer being 6". Also made it quite clear that we're not big on frosting and do NOT want big glob'like roses, trim, etc. Looking to have a nice, clean-looking cake; simple. Less is more, after all. Maybe a little dot-frosting border, maybe an orange ribbon.....still searching for pictures o' inspiration. 

One thing that is for certain: we shall be stuffing delicious lemon'y goodness into our faces come our wedding night! I had immediately dismissed the basic vanilla, chocolate, or marble cake options because....well....those options are boring, and very birthday party'esque. So we tried the following:

*Carrot Cake--yummy; thick; moist; lots of texture. I liked it, but wasn't sure about having it as a wedding cake. Plus it had a lot of different ingredients in it, including carrots (duh), spices, and shards of coconut. "Less is more" is obviously one of my favorite mantras, and this cake didn't quite fit in.

* Spice Cake--very yummy; reminded me of autumn / Thanksgiving. I wouldn't have minded having this as our cake, but Adam liked the carrot cake better than this one, and the overall thing was that it was much more of a autumnal choice. If we were having a wedding in, say, October, then we perhaps would have gone with this one.

*Lemon Cake--delicious; light and summery; had the right amount of tangy and sweet. Plus it's yellow, so it matches. Ha! This is the winner!!!