Tasting Cakes

Raspberry, Apricot, Hazelnut, Chocolate, Oreo Cookie, Mint, Pistachio, Maple, Dark Chocolate, Dulce be leche, Baileys, Lemon Ginger, Raspberry Seedless, Lavender, Vanilla Butter creams, ganache, filling, and icing – who knew there were so many kinds of cakes! Last night we tasted cakes, many cakes, over 30 different flavors of cakes --- what a mouthful! It was a pretty comical event! Try and imagine: we were sitting side by side on the couch, with Stanley (our dog) at our feet with ten different types of cake. Each cake was numbered with detailed descriptions of the type of cake, icing, filling, butter cream, and ganache!

You may be asking yourself – where did the cakes come from? The cakes were baked in Ludlow, Vermont by Irene Maston and she packed them up and shipped them to us via Fedex! It was a little unnerving when we came home to a Fedex note that read, "could not deliver" and then spent the next 2 hours back and forth to Fedex tracking the box down.

So, here we were with our box of cakes, drooling dog, water glass on the table, multiple plates for the cakes with a pen and paper for note taking. Adam’s job was to unwrap the cakes while I carefully read each description so we knew exactly what we tasted. Forkful after forkful we stopped to discuss how we felt about each flavor, filling, icing, butter cream, and ganache. There were some that we X’d right away, some that were definitely worth taking notes about, and some that deserved multiple tastes.

The process was hysterical, hands down the most comical event in our wedding planning. The cakes were so yummy, and the abundance of flavors a little overwhelming. We did pick our cake, and our filling, and our icing. Looking forward to sharing our wedding cake with you on August 21st! :)