Yesterday, I decided to try out another version of the whole wheat pancakes I posted about last time. This time, though, I added a bit of water, some cinnamon, and some vanilla to make these yummy crepes!
As you can see, I added my favorite PB2 on top, this time mixed with water, cinnamon, and agave nectar. If you still haven't tried PB2, seriously, what are you waiting for?
Chad and I met in Homewood to start looking around at some different apartments. It's still really too early to make any decisions, but we just wanted to go out and get some ideas rather than continue looking at apartments online. We quickly discovered at the first place that we visited that online photos of apartments are veeeeeeery deceiving. But we visited some very nice ones in Inverness that are definitely number one on my list so far. We also stuffed ourselves at Saw's BBQ in Homewood, and I wish I had gotten a picture of my lunch because it was so much food and it was so delicious. Definitely not clean, but I believe in a good cheat day every now and then!
Now for the best part... cake! We visited Olexa's in Homewood to plan out our wedding cakes. If you've never been to Olexa's, you must go there. Their menu is great, but it's their desserts that make this place so fabulous. You all know how much I love cake and that I take pride in my own baking, so you know I would never recommend a place so strongly unless I absolutely loved their stuff.
We sat down and started looking at a few books, and when our consultation started, I mentioned that I wanted several different flavors at the reception instead of the old standard vanilla and chocolate only. Boring. I like variety! So, she brought out four flavors for us to try: vanilla, chocolate, strawberry, and carrot.
Let me start by saying that the vanilla cake is the best I've ever had, and their frosting is by far the best in Birmingham. But...that carrot cake...I could eat it every day of my life. It's that good. I asked for it initially because my mom loves carrot cake, and I wanted her to have something there that she would be excited about. But when I tried it, it quickly became my favorite flavor of them all. Chad's favorite has always been their strawberry cake, so he went with that for his cake, but chose to have the vanilla frosting instead of the strawberry frosting on his.
As far as design goes, this was the image from Pinterest that I brought in as my starting point:
I love that stucco style frosting texture. I think it's just simple and beautiful. I did decide to pass on the flowers, though. I don't really care to have flowers on my food. Anyway, we started with that, and I chose to go with mint colored frosting to match the color theme. The three-tiered cake is going to be vanilla, and the other two smaller cakes will be chocolate and carrot, all of them with buttercream frosting. I was very pleased with all of the decisions we made!
I feel like Chad's might need to be more of a surprise...he's super excited about his cake, and it is definitely all him. Very fitting for the man that I love :)
Now my job will be hunting down cake toppers on Etsy. I've seen a lot of wonderful things, and I hope that I can get something soon. I'm also on the hunt for mint colored cloth napkins to monogram. But my next step is definitely sending out save the dates, which cost less than $20 by using the Makr app I wrote about a few months ago and getting them printed somewhere that we had discounts and connections!
But until then, I'm just going to be over here eating cake...
Happy wedding planning!
Andrea
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