We are so happy to have gotten to make our first official out of town wedding cake! I made this very special beach themed wedding cake for my brother-in-laws (and now new sister-in-laws) beach wedding on beautiful Cape Cod in Provincetown, MA. This was such a fun cake to make and our first cake we had to assemble on site so far away from NYC. It was a fun and exciting challenge and such a pleasure to make for such a special couple! 
This cake has a lot of fun stuff going on. First off, each tier was a totally different flavor. The bottom tier was our decadent chocolate cake with vanilla buttercream filling with dark chocolate crunchies. The middle tier was yellow cake with cannoli filling and the top tier was yellow cake with fresh strawberries and whipped cream (the grooms favorite! ). The whole cake is iced with “sand colored” vanilla buttercream, all the shells are made of fondant, and the “sand” is crushed graham cracker crumbs. Almost everything was edible except the fences and the two cute little chairs on top. And i also found a cute plastic bunny rabbit to put on one of their chairs to represent their pet bunny Caeri. The bunny was my favorite little detail, it’s just too cute!
Since this was our first out of town cake there was a lot pf prep work before hand. We baked all the layers before we left, and we also made all the icing, fillings (except the strawberries and whipped cream), and fondant shells before hand. And then we packed it up for the cape. Happily, i have to say everything traveled the 6 hour drive really well (yay for plastic wrapping well and heavy duty coolers!). Granted i had extra of everything except i forgot a sweatshirt for me and a few other clothing items lol. Extra icing check, all cake supplies check, clothing… oh who needs extra of that…lol. Thanks to my great mother in law and my cousin Molly for loaning me theirs all weekend…lol. But i am happy to say the cake assembly went pretty smoothly. It took a full day, but i was very excited since i was able to assemble the cake in a gorgeous modern cape cod kitchen (in an equally jaw dropping house). And in addition, it had incredible views of both the dunes and the ocean. You can’t beat that!
And since i had brought so much extra just in case, i was able to make them 2 additional 7 inch cakes (one cannoli, one strawberry). They were staying for a week with a large group, so i doubt any extra cake went to waste….hehe. In addition to the main cake and extras, i also made a small matching “smash cake” as a surprise for the bride. When she saw the last smash cake i made, she loved it so much and said she never had one, so the groom thought it would be a fun surprise. And she loved it! Pics coming soon of the quite awesome smashing as well as the cake cutting. You can check out the smash cake in the fridge pics below!
Closeup of the two little chairs and the bunny
Side view closeup of one of the fondant starfishes and other shells. All the shells were dusted with edible colored petal dust to give them color and shading.
The cake on the table with some of the flowers around it
The super cute bride and groom!
The fabulous cape cod kitchen i got to assemble the cake in
The absolutely beautiful panoramic views from the kitchen windows
Fitting the cake layers in a side by side fridge was definitely tight but we did it! I’m so glad we got the measurements ahead of time before we started baking..lol
The finished cake after we moved it into the second fridge, yes another side by side fridge…lol. (You can see the smash cake on the middle shelf)
We are happy to report that Scott & Heather LOVED the cake and it was a hit at the amazingly beautiful and super fun wedding!!! We were sad to leave the gorgeous cape cod beaches, but were so happy Heather and Scott had such a great wedding weekend and that we could be a part of it!
Congratulations Scott and Heather!
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Cupcakes perfect for the Summer! I had seen these a while ago in a cupcake book while browsing the cookbooks in Barnes and Noble (one of my favorite sections of that store…so easy to get lost there…lol) And i never got around to trying them. But since i had some supplies left over from the beach wedding cake, i thought oooo i can finally give it a go!
