This weekend's double cake-tasting ended well with a cake design/decision and bakery booking. Michael and I started at J & S Watkins on Route 9 in Clifton Park. We had a 10 AM appointment with the cake-maker. She was very informative and professional. We left with a "sample cake", which was a box with a slice of every cake flavor they offer. Mike and I already knew we wanted carrot cake, but then we started considering having more than one flavor to offer our guests. We brought the "sample" cake to my Parents' house and tried the carrot cake with cream cheese filling and white cake with lemon filling with my Mom. Yummy. Then all three of us went to Coccadott's on Central Ave. in Albany for an 11:30 AM appointment. We tasted their carrot cake and lemon cake. We were able to try both butter cream frosting and fondant. (Fondant isn't that bad folks, it's marshmallowy) Their lemon cake was awesome! It had a raspberry filling and was so flavorful. After some discussion on the price and the details, we decided to go with them. We found both bakeries to be pretty similar in their pricing. Here is our final decision:
A 4-tier, hexagon cake, bottom two layers carrot cake with cream cheese filling, top two layers lemon cake with raspberry filling, entire cake frosted in butter cream, smoothed out, beaded frosting around the base of each tier, periwinkle frosting scrolling decoration banded around each tier, room on the top for the cake topper that our florist, DK, will be providing, made to match the wedding flowers. Yay!
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love it!! who says you have to have plain old white cake at a wedding...carrot cake all the way!!
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