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Plated Dessert vs Cake

Miracle520Miracle520
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Hi ladies, I'm a new poster to this board. I am seeking some feedback on doing a plated dessert vs having a wedding cake,

We are doing a classic 4 course meal and have 6 amazing desserts to choose from if we opt to do the plated dessert.

Will we shock guests if we don't have a cake? Will people appreciate a classic dessert vs a slice of hit or miss wedding cake?

Thanks in advance for any thoughts!

*EDIT* The plated dessert is already included in our package. For a cake, we'd have to purchase the cake and pay a $3 pp cutting fee. The desserts we can choose from are:

warm chocolate cake, fudge sauce, malted milk ice cream

lemon “meringue”, blueberry syrup, ginger ice cream

praline & caramel mille- feuille, banana ice cream

seasonal berry tart, brown sugar crème, balsamic reduction

neopolitan crème cake, vanilla sauce, strawberry ice cream

dark chocolate tart, cocoa nib tuile, mint julep ice cream
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  • sb9411sb9411
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    edited December 2011
    I think people will definitely appreciate the plated dessert. Dessert is dessert and I'm sure whatever you are going to pick will be yummy. What are you going to pick?!
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  • sb9411sb9411
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    edited December 2011
    PS- your venue is absolutely beautiful :-)
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  • SD3194SD3194 member
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    edited December 2011
    I would love to be served a plated dessert at a wedding. Just be careful because a plated dessert can either look really nice or really sloppy.
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  • LowerEastSiiideLowerEastSiiide member
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    edited December 2011
    Can't you do both?
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  • SSaltzman87SSaltzman87 member
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    edited December 2011
    I'd personally prefer your option over traditional cake since I'm not a big cake person. You always hear about brides that have tons of leftover cake since guests simply can't finish it, so I think this would be a welcome change.
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  • Miracle520Miracle520
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    edited December 2011
    In Response to <a href="http://forums.theknot.com/Sites/theknot/Pages/Main.aspx/special-topic-wedding-boards_food-cakes_plated-dessert-vs-cake?plckFindPostKey=Cat:Special%20Topic%20Wedding%20BoardsForum:23Discussion:b17cc2e7-e617-468e-8c63-6d1b51bd6f3dPost:db7691ae-8d58-4127-a633-b109e0d28abd">Re: Plated Dessert vs Cake</a>:
    [QUOTE]PS- your venue is absolutely beautiful :-)
    Posted by sb9411[/QUOTE]

    Thank you!
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  • Miracle520Miracle520
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    edited December 2011
    In Response to <a href="http://forums.theknot.com/Sites/theknot/Pages/Main.aspx/special-topic-wedding-boards_food-cakes_plated-dessert-vs-cake?plckFindPostKey=Cat:Special%20Topic%20Wedding%20BoardsForum:23Discussion:b17cc2e7-e617-468e-8c63-6d1b51bd6f3dPost:17bc7967-4d69-4c7f-acc6-34d870fb8465">Re: Plated Dessert vs Cake</a>:
    [QUOTE]Can't you do both?
    Posted by LowerEastSiiide[/QUOTE]

    I supposed we could but will people want 2 desserts?
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  • LowerEastSiiideLowerEastSiiide member
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    edited December 2011
    I would!
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  • TEA&CoTEA&Co member
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    edited December 2011
    Are you doing a cake cutting if you opt for the plated dessert?  If so, I think it would be a little odd to cut the cake and then not serve your guests cake...unless you box it and have your guests take it home as favors. 

    If you're not doing a cake cutting, I would totally do a plated dessert!  I think it would be a fun, tasty, elegant alternative to wedding cake-- I'm not a big cake person though.  Personally, I'd want the mille feuille, but I know that a lot of people don't like banana in their dessert.  Otherwise, the berry tart or the Neopolitan cake--yum!
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  • sb9411sb9411
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    edited December 2011
    Yum, yum! They'd all be so good. I agree with Tea... about the Berry Tart or Neopolitan Cake. If you go with the Neopolitan, people get the taste of "cake", if that was a worry for you!
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  • fallbride1109fallbride1109 member
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    edited December 2011
    Well, I'm obviously in the minority, but when I go to a wedding, I want wedding cake.  So I would pick one of the cakes for dessert.
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  • BlueBoxBrideBlueBoxBride member
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    I would probably do the chocolate torte with mint julep ice cream. But I looove mint juleps! 

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  • Tanq&TonicTanq&Tonic
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    edited December 2011
    I agree with PPs.  If you're going to do a cake cutting, you should serve the cake, even if it is in additon to dessert.  FWIW, we are serving a dessert duo followed by the cake afterward.  So our guests get 3 desserts :D
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  • colourzcolourz member
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    edited December 2011
    Plated dessert!!!! You don't need the wedding cake.
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  • frogurt814frogurt814
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    edited December 2011
    I'm a huge cake fan, so I would probably miss the wedding cake, but I'd be satisfied with a plated dessert.  Can you serve a medley of the options or do you have to pick one and that's it?  I know you can't please everyone, but with a cake, at least you can have different flavors so people can choose something they like.  If you choose only one dessert, there's a chance that a lot of people won't like it.
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  • cmreyes756cmreyes756 member
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    edited December 2011
    My FI and I also have a dessert course with our dinner, so we were kind of on the fence as well. I very much want a weddding cake though so we are choosing gelato as the dessert and having our cake also :)
    However, if you don't have your heart set on a wedding cake I say go for the plated dessert, no need to spend the extra money on something you don't want.
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  • biancaisacbiancaisac
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    edited December 2011
    We also have the plated dessert included in our menu so we chose to have a cheese (real cheese) cake as a wedding cake. We will have different kind of cheeses: Swedish, French, Swiss etc and have two tiara cakes. We will arrange them with decorated fruit and serve them with crackers and biscuits.

    We will have a rather non-conventional wedding and we chose to have a travelling theme wedding so thus we chose the cheese wedding cake with cheeses from different countries etc. 


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