Comments on: Wedding cake? No thank you!

By: LeeLee

LeeLee — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 17:16:12 +0000

Both my husband and I love cake, but wedding cake is usually dry and nasty. We had a cake- and- champagne – only reception, so I wanted the cake to be extra-tasty. Who knew that Italian Creme makes a fab wedding cake? Our groom’s cake was chocolate mousse with almonds. Yum. Everyone raved about the cakes and didn’t notice that the champagne was a little on the cheap side. We used a fountain, so there were no bottles as evidence.

By: Never teh Bride

Never teh Bride — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 21:12:31 +0000

I love it, class-factotum! And this coming from someone who doesn’t care overmuch for cheese!*

*Cheese-shaped stuff is all right, though.

By: class-factotum

class-factotum — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 18:39:27 +0000

I know! She looked so great! It was such a happy day for everyone. (I LOVE her red shoes!)

The cake was delicious. Ilene’s husband is in the cheese business, so they wanted a cake that looked like cheese. It was chocolate with raspberry, I think, and then hazelnut with amaretto??

By: WideBride

WideBride — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 10:03:47 +0000

class-factotum, that cheese looks amazing! Clearly a hit with the guests too. And the Bride’s outfit – WOW! She looked fabulous!

By: class-factotum

class-factotum — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 23:33:25 +0000

WideBride, you have to see the “cheese” cake my friend Ilene had at her wedding:

http://class-factotum.journalspace.com/?entryid=1803

By: JC

JC — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 15:23:48 +0000

We’re doing what are basically cheesecake cupcakes – a local bakery makes individually sized cheesecakes. They come in about 40 different flavors, so we’re going to choose a big assortment. I can’t wait…mmmm, Bailey’s flavored cheesecake!

By: TeleriB

TeleriB — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 15:19:41 +0000

I admit to having (and loving) a chocolate fountain. It was the one extravagant thing I really, really wanted for the reception, and about the only piece of set dressing I was really attached to. It’s chocolate. That you put on things. It seemed like the most amazing, delicious idea to me.

We had a cake for ceremonial cutting purposes; it was Duncan Hines out of the box, frosting out of the can, and washed fall leaves from the front lawn as decorations. I think my husband brandished the cake server at me, so I struck an en guarde with the knife at him; then he fell back into some movie kung fu pose with the cake server. We froze for a moment, then laughed and turned to the cake – and all the guests roared in protest, insisting that we pose like that again so they could get pictures of it. It’s one of the iconic images from our wedding.

By: Nony Mouse

Nony Mouse — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 14:35:10 +0000

The chocolate fountain at my reception was a hit. Of course, it wasn’t a model that was throwing chocolate all over everybody either, and YMMV, but our guests enjoyed it.
Also, the best ‘cake’ at our wedding was a chocolate mousse cake that didn’t have lights on it ’til right before serving so it didn’t melt, but the mousse was by far favored over the more traditional cakes.

By: WideBride

WideBride — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 13:52:38 +0000

We are having two cakes in fact – one will be a normal sweet cake with icing etc etc and the other is a ‘cheese’ cake – literally rounds of cheeses stacked on each other to make a tier, which will be decorated with grapes. It’s something I have seen a few times here in the UK but has yet to catch on in most other places (including my native New Zealand). We always wanted a cheese course in addition to pudding and this is just a fun way to present the cheese!

By: Wendy

Wendy — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 13:24:16 +0000

We’re doing the cupcake trees as table centerpieces at our wedding in a couple of months. People keep asking us how we are going to do the cake cutting ceremony without an actual cake. I don’t see why we can’t cut a cupcake. There’s also concern that people might eat the cupcakes before it’s time for dessert. That’s fine with us!