Taster Cakes: How To Choose Your Wedding Cake Flavour When You Can't Eat Cake

Uh... What?

You can't eat cake? But you're human shaped.

Oh wait. Ok.

Artistic or Vintage?

I'm very excited to make a winter wonderland cake for my client. I met her while working at the Farmers Market and she has to be the most genuine, happy, excitable and giving gal.

Was that too much?

Who could possibly warrant such kind words from the kitchen bitch witch.

Well I'll tell ya the reasoning for my love for this gal.

She can't eat any of these cake. She's celiac. And she's the only celiac attending her wedding.

So rather than order a gluten-free cake (which I can't actually make; I can only make gluten-friendly goods as there is gluten in my kitchen, but I digress;) she is ordering a cake, of the gluten-full variety, for her fiancee and his family.

No, that's not Black Forest,
But it does have Kirsch

Doesn't that show just how much she loves her hubby? And his family?

Make me think of my love for my in-laws (which I don't call in-laws, cause I love them and saying in-law after everything is annoying exhausting.)

So how do you choose what cake to have when you can't eat them without risking your gut's happiness?

Order three cakelettes for family dinner with the to-be family and let them choose for you.

How nice, right?

This has appeared again.
My Grandma's fav.

She's already embracing all the German. 

Although, I don't think she gets how Germans work.

She picked up the cakes and with the exclamation: "That's too much cake!"

This is enough for 2 G-mans, I don't have the beer displayed.
That costs extra.
And is generally all gluten filled.

I laughed. 

And then I wondered if she knew what she was getting into.

I mean, what German doesn't like food?

Actually what human doesn't like food? 

I can't get enough.

Same with oxygen.

Orange Chocolate with my new frosting

Yeah... I haven't slept much.

Anyways, these 3 cakelettes are counted as my seventh cake.

It's July.

I'm doing alright, I guess.

Blue Cakelette: Ombre Petite Cakes for Mother's Day

Mother's Day was May 10th.

My Mom is about four and a half hour drive away.

It's hard to get there on a weekend. With cake.

Also there's a no gluten thing... I don't get it.

I get it if you're celiac, or trying to be more healthy, but no gluten?

How can you deny this little guy?!

May I introduce you to the Cakelette. Or Petite Cake, but I like Cakelette. 

I think it'll be my substitute for the cupcake.

Not that cupcakes can never happen; they are just over done. 

That's right, Cupcake, you're on your way out.

These were made for the ladies at my work. It had to be later since one only comes in later in the week.

Three inch round chocolate cake with dulce de leche and buttercream. It's splittable between two people, but then you start to eat it and it isn't sharable anymore.

The ombre effect is actually very simple, easy and looks very fancy.

If you need a video to see how click here. Also NicolaBakes is very cute.

Nicola does a cute, simple ringed fringe design on her tutorial, but I figured since this cake is a little over 3 inches across it would look too busy with the texture.

Also I had to top it with a tiny blossom.

Boop!

If you want to learn more about gumpaste flowers I recommend Craftsy. Especially Maggie Austin's Sugar Berries, Leaves & Blossoms. That's what I'm practicing right now. 

Enough free advertising.

Back to what this was actually for...

Happy Mother's Day to all the great mothers out there.

I love you, Mom.