i hate cake...or do i?

if you know me, you know i pretty much HATE cake.  
i'm sure you have a question or two about that.


Q. did i have a wedding cake?  
A. yes. chocolate with raspberry filling. fondant with swiss dots and real cascading flowers {from our lovely florist.}
{photos of that beautiful thing will come in the mail soon from our lovely photographer.}


Q. did i eat any of it?
A.  yes/no.  yes--we "cut the cake" and i had my first bite of cake as mrs. hopper while steven had his.  no--that's the only bite i had.


Q. did you enjoy it?
A.  yes. my bite was a little cake and a lot of filling, so it was nice and moist and good.


Q. so, what did you eat if you didn't have cake?
A. we had a bunch of different kinds of cheesecakes at the reception. i had raspberry.


Q. why do you hate cake?
A. i hate the "cakiness" of it. and i hate frosting. and it's just not good enough for me to eat.


Q. but, haven't you been to the sweet tooth fairy and had a cupcake there?  and enjoyed it?
A. yes. i have. and yes. i enjoyed it. but, it wasn't really a cupcake. {remember? see here.} but, as previously explained, there's really only one kind of cake i like, and that is carrot cake. because it is so super moist and dense that it is like bread. carrot raisin bread is even better {like at mimi's cafe. yum.} so, at the sweet tooth fairy, they have pumpkin cupcakes in the fall. but it's just a pumpkin muffin or pumpkin bread in a cupcake tin with frosting on it.  they also have other flavors like it that are a bread or muffin with frosting on it. in fact, i called them out on it {me: isn't this just a muffin...with frosting on it?} and they said that a cupcake has frosting, a muffin doesn't.  hmm, alright. i'll take it. and their frosting is so good. not normal crisco/shortening/buttercream/canned {sick} frosting, but real cream cheese frosting. yum.


Q. alright, so you like some of the sweet tooth fairy's cupcakes because they are actually just muffins/bread with really good frosting on them. so what's up with the picture up there, huh? what's up with the bundt cake?
A.  okay, okay. at our arizona reception, steven's mom ordered a million little bundt cakes, called bundtinis, from nothing bundt cakes. {arizona, california, and utah locations--no fear. we're covered in all three "homes."}  pretty much a bundtini is a mini bundt cake, or a cupcake.  but here's the thing with bundt cakes--they are suuuuuper moist, and not cakey at all.  i never really eat bundt cake, just because it's never really there for me to eat and i never make 'em.  but at our reception, i think i had 6 of those little bundtinis.  a bunch of different flavors.  red velvet was so good. so cool and moist. and the cream cheese frosting--delicious. i highly recommend it.


Q. you're crazy, h.hopp.  are you going to eat cake now?
A. no. i still hate it.  but i'll have a super moist bundtini from nothing bundt cakes if the occasion arises. or a muffin/bread "cupcake" from the sweet tooth fairy.


confession: steven and i were buying paint at home depot on monday, which is conveniently located catty corner from the sweet tooth fairy.  we stopped at the mcdonald's in front of it to pick up a red box and i said, oh look there's the sweet tooth fairy.  he suggested we try it out.  so we did.  and i didn't get a muffin/bread one.  i got chocolate peanut butter. and it was good. but it was too cakey for me.  so, again, i say it was good, but i didn't really enjoy it.  
oh and confession 2: one of the 2nd grade teachers on my team got me a sweet tooth fairy cupcake as an end of school little thank you/i'll miss you over summer treat. strawberry. with real strawberries in the frosting and a chocolate dipped strawberry slice on top.  i ate it at lunch with the rest of my team.  same thing. it was good, but just too cakey. so i mixed it all up with the frosting to moisten it up and it was better. pretty good. but in the words of steven, "not my favorite."


this is long. as usual. and steven has been at work for 3 hours and still has 2 left.  and i am just writing thank yous and watching "so you think you can dance" on hulu. love that show. we need to hook up our cable before 7pm tomorrow!

and just in case you forgot what we looked like on our wedding day...

here you go.

sometimes when steven is gone, i just look at all of our pictures together, and engagement photos, and wedding photos, and honeymoon photos. just because he is so handsome. and he loves me so much. i think i love him more.