Mmmmmm......cake!!

Last night was our first cake meeting. It's the part Mr. Bart has looked forward to the most and we were not disappointed. We met with Covenant Cakes in Independence. Interestingly enough, their showroom is located in the basement of an old church built in the same style as Hawthorn B&B. Mary, the baker, was extremely nice and very patient with this waffling bride. Her work has been featured in KC Weddings Magazine and is surprisingly affordable. After an hour or so we came to a design that features our favorite elements of these two cakes from Martha Stewart.



The shape will be that of the yellow cake but the pattern will be similar to the eyelet design. The top tier will have a disk under it like in the eyelet cake so the the scalloped edge will be set off. In my mind it looks something like this...




Note the blank layer. The pattern is yet to be decided. Perhaps it will match the yellow and eyelet flower girl dress or maybe it will be the lace pattern on my dress. We'll just have to wait and see.

Also, instead of the "crown" on top of the eyelet cake we'll have this cake topper. I should probably get around to ordering it, huh?


Best of all, she will be able to use my recent purchase from Crate & Barrel to display the cake! (Thanks Shirley, it was part of my Christmas gift from you and Chris!)


The main cake will serve approximately 74 and we'll have a grooms cake as well. The rest we'll have to fill in with either sheet cake, or depending on the budget, we may make 2 smaller and less elaborate cakes to coordinate with the larger one. Right now it's sheet cake, but depending on where the flowers end up we may get the mini-cakes. The result being along these lines: