- Can I blue sky anything I want, pictures for examples, or do I have to go with whatever the designer offers me?
Yes. They don't really have anything standard, so it always helps to have ideas of your own.
- Basically, what parameters do I need to know about before I go all wild, coming up with ideas?
The more hand-work you want, the higher the price will be. So if you want quilted fondant with hidden Mickeys in every join or a bunch of decor pieces created by hand from fondant or modeling chocolate, the price will be higher than if you just want ombre buttercream, for example.
- Will they deliver a custom cake to California Grill? Monsieur Paul?
The Contemporary's pastry team only serves the Contemporary, Fort Wilderness and Wilderness Lodge. Monsieur Paul is owned by an outside vendor that uses a partner bakery to produce standard, supermarket-style cakes only.
My plan is to have MY bday at Cali Grill, and my MIL at M. Paul. I feel like I would be rude if I had a cake for both of us on MY birthday, and nothing on her birthday. I was thinking of doing the big cake on my bday (since it's the BIG 40, but not a milestone for her), and a smaller cake on her bday. Is that rude? I'm trying to not be rude!
Thank you guys so much!
If you don't want to just give her a standard Monsieur Paul cake, you could have the Disney resort where you are staying make her a cake to be delivered to her room on her birthday. Or have a mini-cake delivered to her on your birthday at California Grill.
We got our cake tonight at Chef Mickey’s and love it but aren’t ready to eat it. Does it need to be refrigerated? Vanilla cake with chocolate buttercream. Also, roughly how long do the cakes keep for?
If it's just buttercream, not a mousse filling, you don't have to refrigerate it. And how long cakes keep depends on how much you like the taste of stale cake!
View attachment 355896 Just found a pic of the amazing cake I had for my daughter last Christmas. The yacht club steakhouse.
I also just ordered a cake for my hubby for the end of October also at the Yacht Club.
Sorry I can’t remember the cost. Probably close to $100
That is amazing! If you turn up any more shots of it, I'd love to see them!
Do you get AP or DVC discount if the cake is delivered to the restaurant and added to your bill?
If it's added to your bill, the discount applies to the whole bill, so yes.
Thank you for your feedback, ladies! I'm not savvy enough to know how to quote you both but hopefully you'll see this! I definitely do not just want printed screens so that's helpful. I got bored today and played around with a sketch and came up with this...I have the little plastic toppers so I sketched those in, too. Thoughts?
I think the sketch is FABULOUS! It communicates everything really clearly!
One way you might be able to save money is if they use their white chocolate mold for the monorail and have it rest on the layer below instead of being fondant applied to the sides. Also, having them create the balloons individually out of fondant or modeling chocolate is going to be very expensive. That might be a place to have them do screen prints on white chocolate, if they can cut out around the shapes of the balloons. Another idea that might be cool is if the fondant stripes continued at the bottom and radiated out like notched tails (like you do when you tie a ribbon around a gift) on the cake plate, kind of the way the ribbons in the pavilion were swagged at the ceiling.