Donut Skimp on the Sweets!
A donut wall & a cake made by our best friend & baking extraordinaire: going all out for desserts!
Let’s talk SWEETS.
I'm a dessert-before-dinner person and Ivy has a major sweet tooth. That combination means we went donuts to the walls for our wedding dessert spread! (Get it? Our donuts will be displayed on a peg wall...)
When thinking about the flow of our big day and how we’d hit the dance floor pretty immediately after any cake cutting, we knew we wanted something bite size so our guests could snack while shaking their groove thang – no one wants to have to choose between a plate of dessert and ABBA – right?!
So we decided donuts and a cake to cut ceremonially (okay, maybe we just want to feed each other cake) was the perfect combination! So we found a donut shop and called up our dear friend and baking extraordinaire for the cake. Scroll to see all the deets!
Duck Donuts – A Few Rounds of Sweets
I’m all about sweet and savory flavor combos, so when we decided on donuts I just had to have a maple bacon donut. And a sprinkle donut. Oh, and of course a chocolate one!
Plus, if we’re being totally honest: donut peg board displays are really just so cute and we wanted to get in on the fun! We know, we know – trendy. But if having a donut wall is wrong then we don’t want to be right! (Shout-out to our friends at American Party Rentals for this donut peg board -pictured above - that we’ll be using.)
As for the actual sweets – Duck Donuts offers endless amounts of flavors to cover our delicious donut dreams and more. These donuts are all made to order – meaning you can create any flavor you want. A-glaze-ing.
Here are the flavors we selected!
Maple Bacon
Blueberry Lemonade
Original Glazed
Chocolate Explosion
Chocolate Covered Strawberry
Made to Order: Vanilla Glazed with Rainbow Sprinkles
Photo Credit: Angela Zion Photography
Photo Credit: J.P. Lord Photography
Photo Credit: Angela Zion Photography
Desserts by Snackg1rl
Though @snackg1rl is better known to us as Tacie – one of Ivy’s best friends from college – she’s a rockstar Bay Area baker who serves both amazing TikTok (cake) lewks AND the most delicious cakes (and sweet treats) around.
Like many things in our wedding planning process, we told Tacie all our hopes and dreams about our cake for 30 minutes, and she perfectly summarized and started creating deliciousness from all our rambling.
In summary, we wanted a small cake that was tart yet sweet, with rustic icing/design. For flavors, we said raspberry, lemon, and vanilla – and let Tacie’s baking imagination run wild.
Will it be a lemon cake with raspberry jam between layers? Or a vanilla cake with lemon curd and raspberries on top? When asked these questions, we told Tacie to do her thing. We trust her. And when is cake ever not good?
Anyway – here are a few snapshots of this hobby turned passionate mini side hustle. I mean, she can bake and knows how to find the right light when taking pictures. How did we get so lucky?!
Photo Credit: Snackg1rl
Photo Credit: Snackg1rl
Photo Credit: Snackg1rl