Cakes! Yum yum.

So, I was watching Ace of Cakes and I thought to myself, "MAN, wouldn't it be awesome to have an excuse to order an awesome insane cake?" Unfortunately, the only time I'm liable to have a reason to buy a complex cake is... well, a wedding cake? So here we go....

First off, jeez, wedding cakes can be expensive. The cheap ones appear to be $5... a serving. And a wedding cake is something like 150 servings. So cheap is what? $750? I guess that's okay. But I'm sorry. Like I saw one cake, $13.50 a serving ($2000!), that was dusted with pearl dust. The place that I saw the most pretty cakes, http://somethingsweetbymichelle.com/ , they don't even post the prices on the website!! (If you have to ask, you can't afford it?)

How much can you really justify paying for something that you eat in one evening, that's the question. I read a tip regarding this: make everything except one layer cardboard that's beeniced, and then just give out sheet cake to everyone else except the bride and groom. And thereally short cakes just kinda look pathetic. I think I'd rather have a fake cake, haha. This one to the left is pretty cool though, as short cakes go.

There are some really cool cakes out there. I mean, really. I saw a beehive cake on Amazing Wedding Cakes (although I don't think that would be such a good choice for a wedding cake). And some of the more wedding themed ones are very fun looking, even modern. I seem to have a pretty classic taste though. I prefer them to be predominantly white or beige or gold or light pink, and my favorite decoration is flowers. There are some other rather pretty ones, but anything with black is too dark ( in my opinion) for a wedding!!

And then there's this "Groom's Cake" thing that all these shows seem to suggest that I've never heard of before this. WHAT'S UP WITH THAT?! Haha. The cakes are kind of crazy, maybe pretty fun though. I think it'd only be a good idea for a bachelor's party or maybe the rehersal dinner? But I don't think it'd be worth spending a lot of money, and it looks like they typically use a bunch of fondant (fondant being the more expensive, slicker/harder icing...). I realy don't know anything about them, besides the fact that those are usually the more interesting (interesting vs. beautiful) cakes.