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| - Simple Elegance is the reason I had not one but TWO dreams before the big day about eating my wedding cake. The first involved me clawing at the cake and stuffing the handfuls into my mouth. The second was, of course, me diving into the cake and eating my way out. I feel like these dreams alone could be a sufficient review, but if not, I'll further clarify...
I was convinced I wanted nothing to do with fondant. I don't care how nice it looks or how even it covers, I was determined to have a cake that didn't taste like it was coated with wax. And Dane was kind enough to entertain my preconceived notion so long as I just tasted a bite of his homemade fondant. Huh, what do you know... it's good! I was sold... fondant, it was!
The flavor combinations that Dane comes up with are simply brilliant. For our wedding cake, we had white cake with amaretto and white chocolate chips and some sort of champagne/amaretto filling layered with the most wonderful chocolate decadence cake with Kahlua and ganache. My photographer had a heyday taking pictures of our cake cutting because of how over-the-top excited I was and how I practically made my pre-wedding cake dreams come true. What can I say, I was really excited about getting to eat this phenomenal cake!!
Due to such a wonderful experience with our wedding cake, my mom ordered a golf-themed cake from Dane for my dad and husband's birthdays (1 day apart, only a month after our wedding). This time we got the same chocolate layer as in my wedding cake but for the second layer, we went with the Nutty Irishman - unbelievably delicious. We had a bit of a delivery snafu that was quickly resolved, and it wasn't anything to interrupt our joy in eating the cake.
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