Hooray, Cake!

The baker of my choice, DBBC, is staying in the business! They are even renovating their store so that they can focus on baked goods, breads, and specialty cakes. I’m so glad! Of the three bakers I met with, DBBC was my top choice. The owner/baker was just so fun, and I liked that the delivery cost was included. I went to see him on Saturday and placed my order. He was very intrigued and excited by what RoyBoy and I want, because it’s not your standard wedding cake…
Like I said in a previous post, RoyBoy and I liked what EC&TC did for their dessert: Several cakes, different types. RoyBoy and I are doing something similar. We are going to have two 10 inch cakes: One will be Red Velvet (hopefully with cream cheese frosting) with the fancy, swirly frosting all over it and one will be a Devil’s Food cake with chocolate shavings. Oooo decadent.
Then we will also have a cake that we will cut into: A two-tier yellow cake with raspberry filling and a smooth vanilla frosting. There will be little frosting dots on the bottom of the first tier and on the “seam” between the two tiers: One line will be yellow, one will be orange. There will also be little pink dots all over the tiers. The cake topper is going to be amazing: It will be a biplane. I sent him pictures of the WWI Fokker biplanes, and RoyBoy will be in the gunner’s position while a little me will be the pilot! I am so excited for this. It’s so cute, and so unique to us. I love biplanes and the role they played in WWI and then the Barnstorming era. I really like the Fokkers because I did a report on them and the Red Baron in my high school Aerospace Studies class. RoyBoy and I are also of German heritage, so that works as well.
For the rehearsal dinner, RoyBoy requested a German Chocolate cake. These days the Groom’s Cake is something special that incorporates their hobbies. DBBCOwner and I thought that we would make a stack of books with rocket-themed titles… but when I talked to RoyBoy, he mentioned that part of what he really liked about German Chocolate cake was the frosting, with its caramel-like taste and the toasted coconut. You can’t make book titles with that. Since RoyBoy is really not a cake fan, but he does like this kind, I think that he should have a cake that makes him happy. It was a great idea… but now we have the biplane topper, so I’ll be satisfied with that.
Hooray, Cake!