After polishing off the too-small experimental Pepperidge Farm coconut cake, I was back to square one with no cake ideas.
All the cakes I saw online were too fancy or too complicated. I wanted something simple, rustic, and cheap! A wedding featured on Style Me Pretty in early June caught my attention with this beauty:
Simple and lovely, and just the right size for a cutting cake!
Around that same time, I fortuitously recieved an e-mail from Mr. Bunny's sister, offering the services of her mother-in-law, who bakes and decorates cakes for friends and family. A few e-mails later, and ba-da-boom, our cake was taken care of, right?
Well, not quite.
Mama Bunny was insistent that we provide cake to our guests, even though I had planned on a cookie bar instead. We decided that we'd turn to those trusty bakers at Costco to feed our guest list of 170. It's cheap ($16 per half sheet cake), and comes in some great flavors: Chocolate or vanilla cake; vanilla butter cream, chocolate or creamcheese icing; and vanilla cheesecake, chocolate mousse, or strawberry filling.
Neither of us had cake from Costco before, though. What better excuse to order a sheet cake or two than my little bro's high school graduation party?!
We ordered two cakes, each with a different combination of cake and icing flavors.
This did have Brother Bunny's name on it (and my cousin's, since it was a joint graduation party), but I 'shopped them out for privacy.
How did it taste? Magnificent! Our guests raved about the cake, and it was better than any other grocery store cake I've tried.
This kid liked the cake. I did, too.
