January 15, 2010

I'm Torn!

Hokay.  So.  When I last left you, Mr. Dachshund and I had already decided to go with a three-layer cake, and we had a super-awesome design drawn up by Liz at Creme de la Cake.   As soon as we left the bakery, however, I started to have second thoughts.  This had nothing to do with anything other than the fact that I second guess everything.  I am guilty of doubting every decision I've made thus far concerning this wedding.  With the exception of Mr. Dachshund; I know I'm doing the right thing there.

This is the design that Liz and I came up with during our consultation:

Liz did a fantastic job of pulling details from all of my inspiration cakes and putting them together to make one, cohesive cake design.

Layer One: Red velvet cake (because it was delicious and will look great when we cut into it), is covered in white fondant, a red fondant band rolled to mimic grosgrain ribbon, and a line of stitching-like dots.
Layer Two: Vanilla bean cake with chocolate malted buttercream (swoooon), covered in dark aqua fondant with a quilted design pressed into it.  Red dots at each intersection.
Layer Three:  Vanilla bean cake with key lime filling, light aqua fondant topped with red and white sugar flowers.

And because the hand drawing might be hard to interpret, I drew this in Illustrator:


I do really like it, but I'm still drawn to the look of a two-layer cake.  Plus, this cake has a lot going on...  I think I imagined something a little simpler.  Mr. Dachshund definitely wanted something simpler, but he gave all designing rights to me on the condition that he had a say on the flavors.

Using my favorite detail of the above cake, I toyed with some other design ideas and came up with this:

I added in a cake topper from Lollipop Workshop, because I'd really like to have one for our cake.  I'm not sure I would like it on top of the three-layer cake, though, as the top layer is pretty small.

What do you think, Hive?  I can't decide between the two!  Knowing that I no longer need to freeze a layer for our anniversary cake, should I go with the original three-layer design, or my version of a two-layer cake?

3 comments:

  1. I like the three layers but maybe the middle one should be white with the quilting. Its a lot of white on the bottom.

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  2. Your two layer design is better! I Love it ...besides...three flavours ..so many choices for us old farts...cake service will take forever...lol

    Auntie Robyn

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  3. We decided to go with the two layer! It's just much more similar to what I had in mind. Thanks for your input :D

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