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Tell me your cake flavors & fillings...

grneyz12grneyz12
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I'm trying to get some ideas for cake flavors & fillings to give to the person making my cake. She said I could give her about 5 different flavors for our cake testing. My wedding will be in October at a country club. FI and I aren't really cake people so I'm trying to figure out what others like. I'll probably have a 4 tier and was thinking about doing different flavors for each tier -- or maybe just 2 flavors and alternate tiers.
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  • janedoe1113ajanedoe1113a member
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    edited December 2011
    We did yellow cake with raspberry filling and yellow cake with buttercream filling for ours.  Everyone loved it!
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  • sarabellamsarabellam member
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    edited December 2011
    Bottom tier was Belgian chocolate truffle, middle was orange-almond sponge cake with orange blossom-Grand Marnier meringue buttercream, top was buttermilk spice cake with same buttercream. All tiers were covered with homemade orange blossom fondant. Got some great feedback on the whole thing, including the comment that it was the first fondant that was actually tasty.
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  • Jamilynn627Jamilynn627 member
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    edited December 2011
    Each layer of our cake had one layer of chocolate cake and one layer of vanilla cake, with cookies n' cream filling.
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  • caseyandlizziecaseyandlizzie member
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    edited December 2011
    We are doing tasting in a week and are trying french vanilla with raspberry filling, peanut butter with peanut butter filling, pumpkin spice with cream cheese filling.

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  • bunnybaby99510bunnybaby99510 member
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    edited December 2011
    My cake is going to be vanilla cake raspberry filling and cream cheese icing
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  • mica178mica178 member
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    edited December 2011
    Bottom tier: white cake with fresh strawberries and whipped cream
    Middle tier: half chocolate and half vanilla cake (half layer of each) and truffle filling
    Top tier: either white cake with vanilla custard and burnt almond crunch filling or lemon cake with raspberry creme
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  • nefariousmangonefariousmango
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    edited December 2011
    Our three flavors: "Orange Blossom" is a white cake that's orange-scented with an orange blossom custard filling and orange slices, "Texas Pecan" is fluffy cake w/ bits of pecan in it and a pecan/caramel custard filling, and then a traditional white cake layer of, well, white cake filled with buttercream and raspberries.  We're doing a buttercream cake, so they'll all be frosted in vanilla buttercream.  Delicious!
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  • Lisa_SmilesLisa_Smiles member
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    edited December 2011
    We're having 3 flavours:

    the one just for us will be a chai tea spice cake with spice cream buttercream YUM!

    the other 2 will be a vanilla bean cake with mango passion fruit buttercream and either vanilla bean or chocolate cake with strawberry buttercream

    We just did our cake tasting this weekend. We were given 24 different flavours!!! It's a lot of fun - you'll definitely enjoy this :)
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  • beamer84beamer84 member
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    edited December 2011
    We're doing chocolate with a buttercream filling, as that's my favorite, and white cake with chocolate chips and buttercream filling, as that's FI's favorite. I also loved the french vanilla with rasberry swirl and rasberry filling.
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  • Jeffie86Jeffie86
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    edited December 2011

    1) Chocolate cake with mocha mousse.
    2) Vanilla with raspberry
    3) Red velvet with cream cheese
    4) Our tier - also red velvet

    Groom's cake: Chocolate with peanut butter frosting. 

    Nothing too exotic, but I think a nice mix and a good portion of chocolate!

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  • erinrc1erinrc1
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    edited December 2011
    For our October 9th wedding, we ordered a pumpkin spice cake with cream cheese filling and buttercream frosting.  We also considered a blueberry cake with cream cheese filling.
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  • ltykaltyka member
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    edited December 2011
    Cake - white almond on bottom tier, then triple chocolate with raspberry filling.   Buttercream frosting.  Cupcakes - red velvet with cream cheese frosting.
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  • JennaV26JennaV26
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    edited December 2011

    I just went to my first cake tasting two weeks ago and I had the most amazing cake that was apple with buttercream icing. Amazing. Taskted like apple pie in a cake! Unfortunately other than the tasting the meeting was a disaster so we won't be using that cake baker!

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  • kee80kee80 member
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    edited December 2011
    Our cake is lemon with lemon curd filling, and vanilla buttercream.  Yum!
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  • juliajulesjuliajules member
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    edited December 2011
    Ours has a brownie type dark chocolate cake with cream cheese frosting, a vanilla cake with vanilla bean frosting, and a white chocolate cake with vanilla bean frosting.  I'm excited it'll be so yummy!!!
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  • SchnebsSchnebs member
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    edited December 2011
    We are having two flavors for our cake.
    1.  Mocha cake with heath toffee buttercream filling
    2.  Spice cake with pumpkin cream cheese mousse.

    The groom's cake is going to be chocolate and vanilla with cookies and cream buttercream filling.
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  • gr1angelgr1angel member
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    edited December 2011
    I have 3 different types. the sheet cake "out back" will be white cake with chocolate truffle filling. The bottom and top layer of our cake is lemon cake with an orange jelly? filling. and the middle layer is lemon cake with black cherry buttercream. all very good. mine is a late summer wedding and the lemon and orange which is our main filling is really fresh and light ( as light as a very buttery buttercream can be) =D good luck and have fun!!!
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  • millercr621millercr621 member
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    edited December 2011
    We did a different flavor for each tier too. Our flavors were orange spice, lemon curd, italian cream with fresh raspberries, and chocolate ganache.
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  • caitm730caitm730
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    edited December 2011
    We are doing alternating tiers of chocolate with chcolate mousse and vanilla with vanilla mousse. We are keeping it pretty simple :)
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  • climbmt26climbmt26 member
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    edited December 2011
    1. white cake w/ chocolate chunks and vanilla filling
    2. chocolate w/ chocolate filling
    3. lemon rosemerry w/ lemon frosting (amazing!)
    4. carrot cake w/ cream cheese filling
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  • ebl2ebl2 member
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    edited December 2011
    Our cake is chocolate with fresh strawberries for the bottom and top tier.  The middle tier is vanilla with fresh strawberries.
    I love strawberries and pairing them up with a chocolate cake tastes just like eating chocolate covered strawberries.
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  • val_rossval_ross
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    edited December 2011
    Ours will be a lemon with poppyseed cake, with a light buttercream and fresh raspberry filling! So yummy! (Plus it's great for a summer wedding)
    We originally wanted more than one flavour - but our baker said since the cake will be served as dessert it should be all one flavour so there is nobody requesting specific cake and no frustrated servers!
    (We're also having a red velvet with cream cheese groom's cake)
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  • tommyandytommyandy member
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    edited December 2011
    on platinum weddings i saw a baker offer the bride & groom several cake flavors with several icing flavors in little cups on the side so the couple could mix & match to find what they liked best.  
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  • ks5395ks5395 member
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    edited December 2011
    our  4 tier cake is vanilla with french buttercream icing. the fillings alternate between rasberry mousse and almond buttercream. the groom's cake is chocolate cake with chocolate ganache icing and cream and strawberry filling.  yum yum!
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  • APW2010APW2010 member
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    edited December 2011
    Wow! I'm not a cake person either but some of these sound so good I am completely re-thinking leaving cake choice up to FI :)
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  • 101710101710 member
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    edited December 2011
    I was surprised to see so many answers that had "lemon" in them. I thought I was the odd one out for loving lemon cake! YAY :)

    A good friend and wonderful cake baker is doing our October wedding cake pro-bono so I took it easy on her. 4 layers - alternating chocolate and lemon with a buttercream frosting.

    Looks to me like there are too many answers to this question and you should just pick a few and run with it.

    Good luck!
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  • Angela.MarieAngela.Marie
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    edited December 2011
    We are doing red velvet with a chocolate truffle filling and buttercream frosting! So Good!!!!
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  • LykensWedding123LykensWedding123
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    edited December 2011
    We're keeping it totally simple, because I'd rather not have people complain about the wedding cake (and ruin everyone's day. I know my picky extended family would!).

    We are having a 3-layer cake from a local bakery (Amphora's in Herndon, VA). Top tier and bottom tier: Chocolate cake with milk chocolate mousse filling, middle tier: white cake with white chocolate mousse filling.  had a tiny version of these same flavors in my birthday cake (also from Amphora), and it was so amazing, we decided these would be the best flavors for the wedding cake as well.

    I would say that unless ALL of your wedding guests are Foodies and like to try new and crazy flavors, at least have one more "normal" option that everyone will like, so everyone can at least say they tried the cake.
    Although I think mango and papya mouse filling in a cake would be divine, it may not be everyone's cup of tea. 
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  • louise7louise7
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    edited December 2011

    Brandy Buttermilk Cake with Italian Cherries, filled with Pistachio pastry cream and frosted with a traditional buttercream.  Our baker created this flavor for us based on a breadpudding dessert we had that we loved.  It is fantastic!!!

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  • asimmons4948asimmons4948 member
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    edited December 2011
    White cake with a white chocolate ganche . I think this has the best flavor with out being over powering and the icing was just a good buttercream.
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