Weddings and cake

My brother who is getting married asked me to sponsor him a wedding cake and I said OK. Browsed the internet to a order a wedding cake ideally Batu Pahat based. Found a few and asked for a quotation. I even googled on wedding cake designs and here are some of my favourites (all from the Internet. Sorry to owner of pictures as I forgot to copy your links ;-(

This is what I call simple and sweet

This is also simple & sweet. Cute with the dots

I first attracted to the polka dots contrast with the shape of the cake

This is what I call simple and sophisticated. I assume people will eat the chocolate frosting instead of scrapping it. Nothing goes to waste thus money well spent.

Love the colour!

The blue is refreshing but I know I won't be able to get that colour

Idea to combine cake and cupcake

I often see wedding cakes are impressive to look at with its grandeur presence but always left uneaten after the 1st taste. Wedding cakes are sometimes not nice at all with overfrosting that makes you feel immediately fat after eating it. Usually people just scrap the frosting off the cake because it looks too 'fattening'.

My original plan was to order a 3 tier (so it will look grand) delicious chocolate indulgence cakes (to ensure money is well spent) but that was before I knew wedding cakes are expensive. Cakes that fulfill my wishlist costs from RM500 to RM2,000! My budget is not even RM400. I have to choose either taste or grandeur. After some queries, possibilities and budget constraint, finally I decided to scale down to 2 tier and combine 7' pandan layer cake and a 10' chocolate cake. Decorated with steamed buttercream with swirls and sugarpaste flower/butterflies cam dlm gambar nih (well, not exactly). Nanti kita tengok hasilnya ya.....

And I ordered the cake from Lovelycakes based in Batu Pahat. A colour combination I like from the blog is as below:

Fingers crossed!

3 Jan 2013

This is the cake made by Lovely Cakes. I picked up the cake myself (the baker was a young lovely lady). I was so happy with the outcome, couldn't stop taking pictures of it (not my camera though). I think I would be so happy to receive this cake if I were the bride. So sweet & pretty!

Nothing went to waste. The icing was edible (not too sweet) complimenting the chocolate cake.

  

Don't know why the pic just doesn't want to rotate....