Our first official taste of cake

Initially, we didn't want to have a wedding cake, even though that stance earned us some funny looks from people who know how much we love our desserts. But then The Backyard Mom unearthed the wedding cake topper she and The Backyard Dad had at their wedding 43 years ago. Here is a refresher photo:


The bell has suffered some wear-and-tear over four decades, so The Backyard Mom and I will try to replace it, but otherwise it's pretty well preserved. Once we found this, I started to understand why it might be nice to have a small wedding cake.

Since The Backyard Groom's mom and grandma will be making our other desserts we figured it would probably be best to buy a cake. And thus we went on our first official vendor visit for our first official cake tasting.

The Backyard Groom's mom found Mary Ann with The Frosting on a recommendation from her hair stylist. We went down for our tasting yesterday, and Mary Ann had made us two(!) entire cakes - one with butter cake and her specialty buttercream icing and another with french vanilla cake with marshmallow icing. I snapped a photo of the butter cake (our favorite) with my phone (so please excuse the poor picture quality):

Yum. Mary Ann suggested that we get a two-tier cake with a six-inch tier and a 10-inch tier. She said that would feed 50 with small slices or 25 with big slices. We're big slice kind of people.

Aside from the cake topper, I'm really indifferent about decorations. I'd just prefer it to be as simple as possible. Mary Ann suggested an ivory cake to match my dress with small polka dots as decorations. I found a picture of a small two-tier cake and another photo of a cake covered with polka dots.

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Mary Ann's prices were really reasonable, and her cake was good. We've got another tasting coming up with Blue Note Bakery and I'd like to schedule a third with Lone Star Bakery, home of the famous Round Rock Donuts.