I recently surprised my wife with a Maleficent themed cake for her birthday dinner at Narcoossee's in August. I started the process of cake ordering roughly 4 weeks before our dinner ADR. Since we were dining at GF I called the bakery directly and talked with Pat Anderson. It took a little while for her to get back to my voice mail, but once we were able to talk in person, the process went smoothly.
My wife loves Maleficent, and the color purple, so it was a no-brainer to design a cake around her favorite villain. As it was going to be a cake for two, I asked for a 6" cake and Pat offered up some great design ideas. I had a pretty specific design in mind. I wanted a purple fondant covered cake with Maleficent horns and writing that said "Happy Birthday Michelle". Those were the only "instructions" that I offered up.
The cake was a huge hit with my wife. It was beautifully designed and EXACTLY as I had imagined it. I truthfully wasn't expecting some grand cake as I was only charged $68, but this cake was above and beyond anything I would have guessed.
The staff at Narcoosee's were equally impressed, and at one point the night's manager came over to let us know how excited they all were to see the cake when it was delivered. He told us that they had never seen a maleficent cake like ours before.
The cake was brought out and picture taking ensued. However, both of us somehow forgot to bring our cameras with us! We had to take some cell phone pics on the spot, and took some better pictures once we got back to the hotel. We had it boxed up after we took some slices out, and transported it back to our resort. The staff at Narcoossee's was willing to box it up and store it in their fridge until we got back from our night at HS, but we didn't want to have to make a special trip back to GF that night, so we decided to hand carry it via taxi back to AKL before hitting the parks.
And if anyone was curious, the cake, plus horns, plus the base fit in the mini fridge!
Overall, the birthday cake experience was definitely worth it.
Here's the info for those interested:
Price - $68.00 Cost added to our Narcoossee's bill.
Date Received - Aug. 25th 2014
Location - Narcoosee's
Cake info - Purple fondant over chocolate cake with chocolate filling. It was one of the standard flavors offered. I didn't ask for anything special. My wife bit into one of the horns and said it tasted like a tootsie roll, so I'm guessing the horns had to be some kind of stiff tootsie roll material with molded chocolate.
The fondant is smooth, but there is a bit of "sweating" that's causing the bubbly texture.
The picture isn't very appetizing, but it shows the layers in the cake. There were three sets of white sticks that were pushed into the cake that held up the horns.
It fits!
