Cake Tasting Time!! (woot woot!!!) ;)

Palermo's Bakery, Pastry Shop; Ridgefield Park, NJ

Chip & I have been looking forward to our "cake planning" meeting at Palermo's Bakery for a while! When we first arrived at Palermo Bakery's Ridgefield Park shop, we were confronted with a wall of incredibly fantastic cakes.  Some looked like Louis Vuitton & Chanel bags, others like Cinderella's castle, all the way down to the most extravagant wedding cakes with rhinestones and feathers....it was amazing! After we picked our jaws up off the floor, we got down to business. *wink wink*  Our first task: decide on a cake design.

We looked through a ton of designs.  Eventually, we decided on one that would match the feel and style of the wedding.  The one we picked (see photo below) is traditional and elegant.  Instead of the cream background with white trim, we will have a white background with light blue trim (we avoided dark blue to avoid blue tongues at the wedding! haha). The flowers will be white and light blue with green leaves to match the blue and green color theme of the wedding, as well.

After the design came the hard part: taste testing!!! Woot woot! The part we were looking forward to the most!  For the cake tasting they served us ten (10) pieces of cake.  Five (5) were vanilla and 5 were chocolate cake, each filled with different things. I could only imagine that this was how Charlie must have felt in Willy Wonka's Chocolate Factory! :). It was SO great!  The owner of Perona Farms (the reception venue owner) told us that all we needed to do was to try all 10 pieces, then tell them that "we didn't like any of cake we tried" and then have them bring out 10 more! Hahaha Well, we tried, but after 10 pieces of cake we couldn't eat any more.  Instead of Charlie in the Chocolate factory, I felt more like the blueberry girl that blew-up and had to be roll-out of the store. hahaha

Anyways, enough with Willy Wonka! hahaha  After we tried all 10 pieces, we decided on the vanilla cake with vanilla buttercream frosting on the outside and French Cream with fresh raspberries between the layers on the inside... It should taste perfectly refreshing and sunny in June.

Below are pictures of our cake design and the tasting.... Mmmm! :)

Palermo's Bakery Store Front, Ridgefield Park, NJ

Palermo's impressive wall of cakes!
(I forgot to take pictures of the Louis Vuitton/Chanel bags & Cinderella cakes. :(  )

Cake Tasting Time!!
(Our cake will look like the vanilla piece in the center of the front row. Only we have replaced the raspberry preserves, with fresh raspberries. Yum!)

We couldn't eat all 10 pieces of cake!! So we brought the chocolate pieces home for Chip's family to try.
John devoured the chocolate Oreo cake piece in one fell swoop! lol! Reminds me of another brother I know ... :D

Our wedding cake design ...only not the correct color (except for the leaves)...

Let me know if you love cake like we do!!

Tah tah for now...