Thank you everyone for all the help on this thread and the original cake thread!! My daughter and grandsons are leaving for wdw on Monday the 6th which is also my daughters birthday!!
They are meeting my son in law there for his R&R from Iraq. He will be there some time between the 7th and 9th. I wont be arriving until the 14th and we will all be there until the 21st.
I debated what to do as I really wanted her to have her cake on her birthday, but I ended up ordering it for the 10th so she will be with her husband also!!
I called SSR and Teri returned my call. What a sweetheart she is!! She was extreemly helpful. I wanted an 8" cake and wanted it decorated with Tinker Bell and pink flowers (my daughters two favorites!!). Teri told me the only way to get a character on the cake was to order a 10" cake. I also asked for Bavarian cream and strawberry filling. Teri told me the cakes for SSR are made at the Grand Floridian and the SSR staff picks them up, delivers them to Artists Pallette and then the guest picks them up there. No delivery to the room as there is no room service. She offered me a white, chocolate or marble cake and buttercream, chocolate or whipped cream frosting. She said the bavarian cream/strawberry filling was not a choice. I said I had heard that Grand Floridian had made cakes with the filling before and if at all possible it is what I wanted. She said she would call Grand Floridian and call me back.
When she called back, she said she ordered my daughters cake as follows:
10" marble
bavarian cream with strawberries; Yea!!!!
buttercream frosting (I was afraid it would have to be cut up to fit in the frig after and the whip cream frosting would be too fragile.)
A Tinker Bell cake decoration dangle that looks like she is flying which will be surrounded by pink flowers!!!
Teri said she really wished she would be there to see the cake, but that she will be on vacation. She asked if I would send her a picture of the cake, I told her I would be happy to! I really felt she bent over backward to get me what I wanted! She was also very sweet!
She told me she would like to have an album of all the cakes that she had ordered in the past for people to look at, but said they are working on an online ordering system that will have several cake styles that people can look at and order from. No date when that will start however.
I told her I got the ideas from "the dis". She laughed and said "there are thousands of cakes on there!"
I told her my daughters cake would be also!! So thank you dis cake experts!! Can't wait and I will post pictures when I get home!!
Thanks!
I thought the sugar flowers on top were gorgeous and girly, something my DD9 would love! Good tip about checking in too...make sure the person you're trying to surprise with a cake isn't standing right next to you!
