THE cake

I haven't been doing much baking myself the past couple weeks due to wedding and honeymoon, but since this is a blog about baking, I had to dedicate one post to the most amazing wedding cake I have ever tasted, thanks to Pawley's Island Bakery!

When I originally went for the cake tasting, I thought I was pretty much going to have to pick one flavor of cake and one flavor of icing.  As much as I love cake, that was going to be pretty tough.  Since Trevor couldn't go tasting with me, I was going to have to rely on knowing what he likes, my discerning sweet tooth, and my mom's help (and her favorite is raspberry, the one flavor Trev ruled out!).

When we got there, we were told that not only could we pick a different flavor of cake for each tier, but we could pick three different flavors of filling for each cake flavor.  This made it even more exciting, but no less challenging!  All of the flavors were delicious, and here are the combinations I finally narrowed it down to:

Bottom Tier:  Chocolate Cake with Chocolate Ganache, Strawberry Mousse with Fresh Strawberries, and Chocolate Mousse

Middle Tier:  Lemon Cake with Peach Mousse, White Chocolate Mousse, and more Peach Mousse

Top Tier:  Carrot Cake with Cream Cheese Filling, Lemon Mousse, and Cream Cheese Filling

Needless to say, I continued to dream about the cake in the months between the tasting and the wedding, building it up to an expectation no average cake would be able to fulfill.  However, this cake was anything but average and it turned out even better than I expected!  Even if I almost had a heart attack when I saw it being delivered 5 minutes before the wedding instead of the planned two hours before (apparently everybody else knew it was arriving late but didn't want me to stress out). 

And it turned out beautiful too, exactly how I had pictured - and even decorated with the extra flowers from the ones I made for the bouquets.  Can't wait till our first anniversary when we get to eat it again! (Well, the peach layer at least!) I highly recommend picking a bakery who will make you an extra anniversary cake so that you don't have to worry about trying to save any during the wedding.

The obligatory feeding-each-other-cake picture! 



My mom cutting the cake...she's getting to be an expert!