Cake...everybody loves cake...

So everybody loves cake...but deciding on a cake design/flavour is rather difficult...

Flavours...it is traditional to have a fruit cake...apparently it symbolizes fertility or something along those lines?!? so I have pretty much decided that regardless of the rest at very least the smallest top layer should be a fruit cake.

Having attended a few wedding fairs I am blown away by the flavour selections...Vanilla, chocolate, Banana cake, Red Velvet, Lemon, Marble Cake, Rainbow Cake, Carrot Cake...too much choice.

Then shape...circular, hexagonal, square, cupcakes, mini cakes, tiered, separates - its also very 'in fashion' to have a 'dessert table' and have a selection of cakes and French 'petit fours' type confectionary rather than just the one cake.

Check my pinterest...I have pinned LOADS of ideas... http://www.pinterest.com/missdragonflyj/wedding-brain-storming/

Well...I have hit upon the idea of these adorable 3 tier 'tea/cake stands' - as we are having an afternoon tea party rather than a traditional wedding breakfast. I figured these tea stands will link in with the tea party theme...

I am pretty much decided that the one below is the chosen one. The bottom stand holds a 12" cake, middle is 10" and top is 8".

I am thinking fairly simple cakes...but maybe 3 flavours...so the top 8" cake will be the traditional fruit cake. Then deciding on the other 2...vanilla sponge with jam? I'm kinda favouring a carrot cake...but I tastes a Banana cake at a wedding fair and it was lush...so was the red velvet cake...for now I think we'll come back to the flavours...

So decoration...well I'm toying with the idea of these button moulds, but rather than popping chocolate in them (like the pic) you could use them to shape coloured icing...

 

 

Then just pop a line of buttons around the base of each cake. Purple is the theme...so if you had plain white iced cakes with a line of purple buttons that could have quite and impact...or you could ice the cakes with purple icing and pop white icing buttons on? Or a combination? So have it white-purple-white varying per cake tier...

 

I also found these button moulds...the ones above would give a nice uniform line of buttons the same shape...if you use the ones below it would add a lovely rustic, vintage feel with all 'higgledy piggledy' buttons...

 



Or if we forget the button idea I do have a bit of a 'lace' undertone to the wedding theme...I could just simply pop some ribbon and lace around the base of each tier...

...hmmm....too much to decide!