The Cake

I’m envisioning it now… square, three layers, lots of chocolate, dragonflies, and Japanese cherry blossoms. Or something like that. Keep in mind that the cake is something I haven’t crossed off my list yet—I haven’t even met with a baker or anything. I’m merely in the process of brainstorming at this point in time.

My ideas stem from a cake I saw about a year ago while flipping through a bridal magazine. Check it out:

But imagine this as a much smaller square cake. And the colors would be something like this: white for the base color, green for the ribbon-looking thingies, and orange for the middle of the cherry blossoms. I’m also interested in adding button-like shapes around the bottom edges of the cake, as seen on this cake:

This cake is actually made at Homeland, and for a pretty decent price, I might add. After I saw this in their bakery catalogue, Homeland made my list of contenders for the cake. Although I do like this design, I think it’s both a bit too simple for me and a bit too flowery. I also like their cake topper, but Keegan and I have already picked one out.

As some of you may know, Coheed & Cambria is mine and Keegan’s favorite band. And Keegan owns just about every big preorder package that Coheed has released. In one of the packages was a dragonfly—one of Coheed’s major logos. It’s a pretty good size and is made of some kind of impressive metal (ask Keegan—he’s the one with the chemistry degree). All that to say, I really wanted to incorporate some kind of dragonfly design into the cake. And when Keegan suggested Coheed’s dragonfly as our cake topper, I thought this would be the perfect way to do it. 

Thanks to Keegan for taking this photo

So I guess if I were to combine all of the ideas I’ve told you about, it would look something like this (again, please forgive my crude drawing skills—or lack thereof):

Of course that’s not exactly how the dragonfly will actually look, but because of my lack of artistic skills, I just did the best I could at drawing my own version of a dragonfly. Of course it’s also not drawn to scale. And the cake doesn’t have to turn out exactly like this, but this is the idea that I was able to translate from my brain onto paper in the best way I could.

If you have any suggestions or cool new ideas, let me know. I’m happy to hear your opinion!

-Paige