Cake, cake and more cake

These are the four 'practice' wedding cakes I made Chick and Steve.  The very back dark chocolate one, is just that, all chocolate with a chocolate syrup over the cake, and dark chocolate ganach frosting, called 'chocolate passion wedding cake.  This was chosen unanimously for the grooms cake.  The other back cake was a yellow cake with raspberry mousseline buttercream center and vanilla mousseline frosting.  The cake itself had too much syrup (something to keep them moist if not eating them in the next two days, and I made these ahead and froze them).  The front left is a Grand Marnier Cake.  Yellow cake with chocolate chips (Valrhona chocolate 'les perles') and a milk chocolate ganache.  The deccorations are the chocolate 'les perles' and the rose I made from candied orange peel.  The front right is a lemon/almond cake with lemon/white chocolate butter cream frosting, and filling for one layer, I torted the two main layers and put a lemon custard between those half layers. It had a candied lemon peel rose. It was all so good. The decision, at this point, was to make all the cakes with the same recipe as the lemon/almond cake, but only flavor one tier lemon with lemon filling and lemon mousseline buttercream (it has a plain butter cream in this picture, a much heavier frosting), the others will be without flavor (so they will be just yellow cakes) and filled with raspberry mousseline filling, and one tier will have the chocolate les perles (a chocolate chip cake), all with a vanilla mousseline buttercream.  That could change, but I'll practice those for now, unless I hear different from Steve and Chicky.

The funny part was, we barely ate any of the cakes they are so filling, plus we follwed them after a great homemade pizza and salad dinner Chicky made, there was tons of cake left.  Dad and I forgot to take some with us, and got to Montana last night, and had left over frosted weight watchers ice cream, because it was all we had in the house!!