The biggest perk of getting married: going to a cake tasting!! Many of the wedding planning decisions have been hugely stressful and confusing, but lemme tell ya, the cake tasting was awesome. Okay, so maybe it was a little rich, and I kinda went into a sugar coma afterwards, but it was totally worth it.
Cake #1: white cake with vanilla buttercream and chocolate ganache.
Cake #2: white cake with praline buttercream and chocolate ganache.
Cake #3: white cake w/ raspberry cream and (you guessed it) chocolate ganache.
Cake #4: carrot cake with cream cheese frosting.

OMG, they were all amazing. (wish we’d taken pictures!) The cake lady brought us each our own plate with 1/2 a mini cake in each flavor. Do you have any idea how many calories that probably was? I don’t, and I plan on keeping it that way–but I will be hitting the gym a little harder than usual this week to make up for it!

We were instructed to eat them in order of density, so we began with the vanilla, then praline, then raspberry, then carrot. The praline was kinda gross. I had suggested Nutella to the cake lady, but she countered with the praline, and it’s just not the same. (If you’ve never had Nutella before, smear some on a piece of crusty baguette and you’ll think you’ve died and gone to heaven.) The raspberry was good (and a very pretty pink color), but too sweet and a little tart. The carrot cake was uh-mazing, but probably too heavy for our June wedding. Plus, Andy’s favorite part of the carrot cake was the fruit, and I am very anti-raisins in cake. I was mostly into the spices and cream cheese frosting.
So we decided on vanilla with chocolate ganache. Does that sound too boring? I mean, I don’t want to freak out all our guests with some crazy passion fruit, pistachio combo with champagne cream filling… or do I? kidding!

But all in all it ROCKED! I’ve been excited about the cake tasting for weeks and it totally lived up the the hype. Maybe I should postpone the wedding so we can keep going on cake tastings!

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