Wedding Cake | Virginia Wedding Photographer

Morning, Lovelies!

Did you miss me yesterday?  I know I’ve been blogging (nearly) every day here, and suddenly, I’m only blogging Monday-Wednesday-Friday.  Welll… you can catch me blogging about interior design and home over on our other blog— http://www.LoveOxido.com on Tuesdays and Thursdays.

Today, I want to tell you about my amazing wedding cake! 

Photography by the AWESOME Marcella Treybrig Photography

I have something to admit to you--- I really don’t like wedding cake.  I know, I know.  As a wedding vendor, it should be as awesome as water, but I’m not a fan.  Most cakes are dry, kind of hard, and the texture is gritty. 

And... wedding cakes need to be.  Wedding cakes need to be firm enough to stand up, unrefrigerated, for several hours.  Many need to withstand the heat.  The lower layers need to be dense and firm enough to hold several tiers and a cake topper.  Nice, firm legos these cakes are.

Yuck.  Okay, but they are pretty.

Somehow I lucked into finding Hasna with Sugar Lips Confectionery.  We were vendors together at several birthdays and a staged wedding… and she was willing to make a small cake that built upon my rustic garden theme.  Small was my request.

My husband doesn’t like sweets.  **At all.** (Weird, right?)  So, I asked Hasna to make the top layer a strawberry shortcake.  Light, airy and the least “sweet” cake I could think of.  The bottom was a chocolate ganache—a cake that is naturally dense

When I put the fondant covered strawberry shortcake in my husband’s mouth at the wedding, my husband was grimacing.  He did not want to eat a sweet and was only doing it out of tradition.  As he closed his mouth, he smiled!  He didn’t kiss me and say, “I love you.”  He kissed me and said, “This is actually… delicious.”

Photography by the AWESOME Marcella Treybig Photography

My bite was buttery smooth, naturally sweet and airy.  We actually ate our slices of wedding cake!

The chocolate lovers oo’ed at gooeyness and flavor of the chocolate ganache layer, and the strawberry shortcake was devoured.

All this, and it’s from a home business.  AND, it was gorg.  Do you see those cake flowers?!!

I’m not being paid for this post, but I will include Hasna as my recommended vendor for wedding cakes.  Beautiful cake, the best tasting cake I’ve ever had, AND a local mom-business?  Done, done, done.