I have attended so many weddings in Singapore to know that the cake-cutting part of the ceremony is a prop cake. When I was young, I often waited and waited for the waiters to serve to cake during dessert but the cakes never came. So when I boldly asked one day, where is the freaking cake?! and got returned with "the cake is a fake, my dear," I knew I had to have REAL cake during my wedding.
Googled for a list of wedding cake bakers and from the last time I updated, the prices of wedding cakes range from $1,000 to $1,650 and some have yet to even include delivery fees and deposit of $150 for the tier supporters which we have to return!
All this hustle just for a freaking cake!?
Then it struck me, I can always look for blog-bakers, those who does freelance baking. I have ordered from these bakers many times and their standard of cakes are definitely on par with those from the boutique bakeries.
So I wrote to Hazel and Lucille. Hazel was quick to get back and I am so happy that she remembers me from these years that I have ordered from her. She has won a lot of awards for her creativity and when I asked her for this favour, she proceeded to give me some advice and how it is not right to copy the designs that I got from google images. I roger that and gave her the go ahead for redesigning the cake for me. Meantime though, she needs to do her math and work out a quote for me. Fingers crossed it doesn't cost me a crazy amount. I only set aside $200 for this in the initial budgeting.
I asked Ah lau if eventually, we would have to drop one, would be prefer the cake or the band. He said the cake while I went for the band. Although I really do want to have both, I guess when we finally do come to it, I am sure Ah lau will definitely give in to me and let me have the cake. After all, it has always been my dream to have a wedding cake during my wedding.
I found some beautiful pictures of turquoise wedding cakes on google images and I must say that they are all SOOOOOO gorgeous! I can't decided on which designs I want Hazel (if not her, then Lucille) to work on. Ah lau and I looked through a few and our eyes were dazzled by the variety. We can't wait to sink our teeth into everyone of them.
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Initially, I have decided on a plain turquoise 3 tier cake with pink flowers since we will be having pink roses for our wedding as well. I think the first one is really pretty and simple just like the one I had in mind. We are also opened to just turquoise with various of white add-ons like butterflies or sea-shells (which I later think would be more suitable for a beach themed wedding)
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During our search, I was asking Ah lau if he wants a vanilla sponge cake or are there any favours he would like our wedding cake to be.When he came up with chocolate, we found turquoise cakes that are decorated with chocolate colour rather than the conventional vanilla. We find that it would be interesting to cut the cake open and see chocolate sponge instead of white and it will definitely be a wonderful dessert for our guests!
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