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| - This cake was the biggest source of stress of my whole wedding. I had to contact three different bakeries before finally securing this ordering with Las Vegas Custom Cakes ONE WEEK before my wedding. I was so grateful that they were able to accept my order on such short notice due to the intricacy and time that was needed to complete something this detailed.
I called and spoke to Cristina. Then I emailed her a photo of what I wanted, along with the specific modifications. This was to be a two-tiered peacock wedding cake. The tiers were not connected and instead of just one peacock, I needed two- one in white, the other in blue- to symbolize the female and male in a relationship. Each feather was to be individually rolled out, designed, painted and sprayed. It was a lot of work. I was expecting a gorgeous replica of a peacock cake that I found online but modified to my wedding theme. I was so nervous about whether or not LVCC could even do this cake because I had hit so many roadblocks and brick walls with this cake that I almost scrapped it altogether a week before my reception.
The cake was nothing short of breath-taking. Everyone was amazed by it. They couldn't believe how gorgeous it was. Our reception was held in a private room at Bouchon at The Venetian. I was told by the dining events manager that his baking team was so impressed by it that they were all taking photos of it as well.
It was delivered and set up beautifully about an hour before the reception began. This was well worth the money. Believe me, it was a pretty large chunk of change but it was actually cheaper than if I went with a different bakery that gave me a larger quote for a less intricate version that included only one peacock.
The top tier was a triple-layered white cake with thick Bavarian cream filling. I'm not a big Bavarian cream fan; my husband loves it. But guess what? Simply heaven. The cake tasted absolutely perfect. I ate about half that entire top tier myself. The bottom tier was a dark chocolate cake with a Bailey's Irish cream drizzled chocolate mousse and a thin sliver of ganache. My chocolate-loving friends about died eating it. They loved it. Even one of my besties who doesn't like cake thought it was delicious. The only thing I didn't like was the fondant- never liked fondant, never will. Las Vegas Custom Cakes' fondant tasted even stranger than any other I've had in the past, with a strange chemical aftertaste. Maybe it's because I requested marshmallow fondant? I was told by a really good baker that marshmallow fondant actually tastes good and better than regular fondant. If that's what it's supposed to taste like, I think it's actually worse.
So after all this, why the four-stars and not five? Three reasons:
1). Both peacocks ended up white. Maybe they misread the email or misunderstood what I wanted. I'm copying and pasting exactly what I wrote in my email to them regarding the two birds, "...a pair of peacocks- a white female and a blue male... I would like the pair of white and blue peacocks on top of the cake with the female looking more plain and the male fancier (like real life peacocks)." The only thing they did was spray the upper portion of the male peacock's feather with some blue. Otherwise, it was the same color as the female.
2). They left a giant piece of paper towel in the female peacock's feather. I could tell that it was there to keep the feathers separated while they dried. I'm assuming that they removed all the other pieces of paper towel and just forgot that one because it sort of blended in with the feathers.
3). They used Q-Tips/cotton swabs in the cake. This one disgusted me out a little bit. They cut the cotton swabs in half and used them as little support beams to reinforce the feathers' structure. It was from the top where the feathers began to about halfway down the feathers' design. I'm not sure if this is common practice in the cake design world. I'm leaning on the side of "No." The reason this was so gross was because I wouldn't have noticed them except it looked like someone had left light colored hair or pieces of lint in my cake- that's how I found them. I was giving a big slice of it to a friend who missed the reception. Right before I handed the plate over to her, I was casually looking the cake over to admire the work again and saw some hairlike pieces throughout the cake and started to panic. As I moved the feathers over to pull them out the bits of fiber, I started finding all the cotton swabs.
If it weren't for those three things, then I would give LVCC more than five stars if I could. I'll upload a picture of the paper towel in the cake but I don't have any of the cotton swabs. I paid $900 for this cake, on top of a $50 delivery fee; I really didn't expect some of the strange things that I found in the cake. That still would have been mildly disturbing even if I didn't spend that much money on it.
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