We Can Have Our Cake and Eat It Too

A wedding cake is a very special addition at any wedding. It is the centerpiece of the wedding even with glamorous table decorations abound and a beautiful couple waiting to take center stage. I want the only thing my guest ooh and ah about to my new husband and I.

Granted, I still want my cake to be elegant, cheque, and simple. As a bridezilla on a budget, I also want it covered in calla lilies real or edible. The love of my life left everything in my hands on two stipulations: one he prefers cream cheese icing or butter cream icing and two that the cake topper be a traditional bride and groom. No problem. Right? Wrong! We are an interracial couple and I am a very picky person when it comes to details and finding the perfect interracial cake topper is a pain in my slimming derriere.

Growing up I loved to watch cake shows like Cake Boss, Amazing Wedding Cakes, and more. I even met Buddy from Cake Boss. He was really nice. Reality hit when I discovered that some of those cakes price could range into the thousands. I love cake just as much as the next person, but budget being set there’s no way I will be spending that much on a cake most people would rather look at than eat.

So, we decided that we wanted to do a spin on the traditional wedding cake and have a two tier centerpiece cake with cupcakes from the Cupcake Shoppe in Raleigh, NC surrounding it. Those cupcakes with by paired with another wedding favor(calla lily picture frames) for guests to take home if they like. I love the cupcakes at the Cupcake Shoppe, especially the “You Mocha Me Crazy.”

Cinda’s Creative Cakes may have stolen the win from the Cupcake Shoppe. I wish I could share a piece of their cake with the audience, so they could understand the decadence of those small samples I had at the North Hills Wedding Affair. The cinnamon swirl cake was so moist it....left me speechless as I devoured the rest of the sample. My aunt took her first bite, her eyes bulged and all she could say was “This is so good. I need to get this recipe.” The icing was sweet and spicy, but not too overpowering for those with sensitive taste buds.

This is the perfect example of my wedding cake.

My mother, aunt Pattie, and I sampled all the flavors available and just fell head over heels in love with the bakers at Cinda’s Creative Cake. I won’t admit this to my aunt, but the cake was better than her world famous “Shock-it to Me Cake.” Best of all they met the my Reuben’s desire for buttercream icing. I browsed Cinda's Creative Cake's gallery and found the perfect cake. All you have to do is change the green to lapis, loose the roses, add a black girl on top, and that's my cake.

Then there was the issue with finding interracial cake toppers that didn’t make either of us look like a chocolate bar or a piece of chalk respectively. After searching high and low I found the perfect wedding toppers at thatsmytopper.com. Although, I think I will invest in some acrylic paint after my favorite supervisor jokingly suggested, “You should just take a crayon and add to it.” Not a bad suggestion in my book, I have a steady hand and love making things unique. Plus, Thatsmytopper offers mix and match cake toppers that make it easy to choose exactly what you desire.

Mix and Match Cake Toppers

I want this one.