Let Them Eat Cake!

A couple of weekends ago, FMIL Pudding threw me the most wonderful wedding shower. It was literally the sweetest shower ever - so sweet in fact, that I need to break up my recollection of the event into two posts in fear of spiking your blood sugar levels.

So, I want to start with the setup.  As you know, the shower took the form of a cake tasting, since FMIL Pudding is baking our wedding cake.  And let me just say:  We ate cake!  Don't believe me?  Take a look:

FMIL Pudding really outdid herself - she made a total of 8 cakes!  Here's a list of what we were tasting (try not to drool all over your keyboard):

Starting with the cake in the top left corner:
Raspberry Dew: Sponge cake with almond pastry, raspberry filling and raspberry buttercream.
Chocolate Eclipse: German chocolate cake with coconut, pecan, and caramel filling and chocolate ganache.
Caught in the Rain: Coconut cake with pineapple filling, toasted coconut dacquoise and cream cheese and white chocolate filling.
Moon over Mansfield: Maple butter cake, walnut pastry and maple buttercream.
Bella Noche: Tiramisu cake with white chocolate and cream cheese filling, Kahlua and espresso syrup and bittersweet chocolate.
Blueberry Zinger: Lemon cake with blueberry filling and lemon buttercream.
Poppy Sunrise:  Orange poppy seed cake with orange buttercream filling and marmalade glaze.
Midnight Express:  Golden sponge cake with mocha buttercream, chocolate meringue and ganache.

All the cakes were delicious, but there were definitely a few stand outs.  In the end, we decided on two cakes:  one for the main wedding cake, and one for a sheet cake that will be served as dessert.  Before I give you a play by play of the shower, and reveal the big winners, any guesses on the cakes that we chose?  Which flavor would you choose?