Let there be CAKE!!.. ((& cupcakes!!))

Over the past month and a half Dan and I have discovered many exciting activities that come along with wedding planning. Recently I discovered that cake tasting was among my favorites!

Dan and I decided we wanted to do the traditional "cake cutting" at our wedding, but what we really wanted was mini cupcakes. So we decided on a cupcake tower with a small cake at the top and mini cupcakes on the tiers. I began searching the Internet for bakeries that had mini cupcakes and did wedding cakes as well, but to no avail.

Then one day I remembered that about a year and a half ago (maybe a little longer) I really started getting into cooking and LOVED looking at cooking blogs. I added a few to the side bar on my blog page, one of them being My Sweet and Saucy. The baker/blog writer, Melody, didn't have recipes for me to try like my other cooking blogs but she had picture upon picture of gorgeous cakes and cupcakes and mini pies and cake ball pops and candies and cookies etc. So to gather some more ideas, I decided to go to her website and get some ideas on some cakes and cupcakes for our wedding.

I began looking through post after post on her blog and got some really good ideas and saw a few things I really liked. Then I saw a tab at the top that said Sweet and Saucy Shop! I clicked it wondering if maybe they could ship or something?? I didn't expect that at all, just high hopes I guess. So once in there I hit the contact button to see where they were located, and about jumped up and down and all around when I saw LONG BEACH, CA!! If you're not to familiar with So Cal, it is neighbors with Huntington Beach. The shop was only about 15-20 min from my house! I text Dan and emailed them right away. They got back to me with an appointment time to come in for a TASTING! ((this is the fun, and VERY yummy part))

I already knew I loved Melody's work, we just wanted to make sure it tasted good too. (and who can really turn up a chance of eating cupcake upon cupcake with the thought that you NEED to be doing this right now for the benefit of you wedding?) So we drove down there and met with her assitant, Hayley, who gave us about 8 different cupcakes to try. There were so many flavors and icings and designs to choose from and taste. We found many that we loved, and some.. not so much. Dan's favorites were.. well if you know Dan, you know his favorites were any that had chocolate. Mine was the Candy Bar and the Red Velvet! They were sooo delicious! The Candy Bar was by far the best! ((I won't tell you all of the flavors we chose but I will say if you come to our wedding, you will be able to try the candy bar cupcake))

After all of the fun of devouring the cupcakes and trying all of the flavors we got to talk about the design for the cake. She had a fun ipad i got to play with and look through pictures and tell her exactly what I want so they could start coming up with sketches for my cake! It was all so much fun and very delicious! I think about our little cupcakes often and get very excited for our wedding day, just to eat more of those amazing little treats!