Cakes

redcoatfollower · April 2013

Are you planning on having a "traditional" type of wedding cake (3 tiers or whatever), cupcakes, or something "off-beat"?

Stina51286 · April 2013

Cupcakes plus bday cake for FI

SimplyME22 · April 2013

I'm making our tiered cake, all fake tiers except one to cut. Buying torted sheet cakes to actually be cut and served.

redcoatfollower · April 2013

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[QUOTE]Cupcakes plus bday cake for FI
Posted by Stina51286[/QUOTE]

Are you getting married on his bday?

redcoatfollower · April 2013

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[QUOTE]I'm making our tiered cake, all fake tiers except one to cut. Buying torted sheet cakes to actually be cut and served.
Posted by SimplyME22[/QUOTE]

good idea!

SimplyME22 · April 2013

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[QUOTE]In Response to Re: Cakes : good idea!
Posted by redcoatfollower[/QUOTE]

I only recommend if you've done a lot of cake decorating in the past. I laid out a simple design that I know I can execute. I'm making all of my gumpaste flowers in advance, so it's basically just assembling it the day prior and we're good to go. Since it's mostly styrofoam, I don't have to worry about internal supports, one less piece to the puzzle.

Stina51286 · April 2013

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[QUOTE]In Response to Re: Cakes : Are you getting married on his bday?
Posted by redcoatfollower[/QUOTE]

Yeah. He picked the date, which was fine by me. All I cared about that it was in the fall, but still some what warm.

[Deleted User] · April 2013

Cupcakes & a small cutting cake. We picked out flavors during my February visit.

Cutting cake: red velvet.

Cupcakes: red velvet, lemon, cherry cheesecake, blueberry "muffin" and GF vanilla.

We're going to have "normal" sized and "mini" sized cupcakes. (Although the bluberry & cherry cheesecake can't be made in the mini size).

mochietoe · April 2013

We are having cider and doughnuts and a s'mores bar probably.

LilyASF42 · April 2013

we are having a traditional tiered cake (exact design yet to be determined) with a slightly untraditional flavor, carrot cake :-) not really wild and crazy, but not the norm that i'm used to

we also will be having a s'mores bar. still debating if we want to make one of the cake tiers something basic like vanilla with some fruit flavor filling for those (freaks ;-) ) that don't like carrot cake or chocolate

SewInLoveWithDMB · April 2013

Traditional tiered cake, 3 or 4 tiers, with sugar flowers and other decorations on the exterior.

We have chosen two flavors so far - chocolate cake with chocolate ganache, and s'mores (graham cake, marshmallow and chocolate fillings). We can get a third flavor if we want, but I don't know if I care. We wanted buttercream on the exterior rather than fondant and still need to decide minor details like square or round.

Our venue will also provide additional desserts with the cake.

libby18bell · April 2013

We are having a semi traditional tiered cake. No idea the design we are giving our baker free reign. The cake is 3 layers with two fillings, it's going to be chocolate cake and one filling is raspberry and the other is dark chocolate.

SimplyME22 · April 2013

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[QUOTE]Traditional tiered cake, 3 or 4 tiers, with sugar flowers and other decorations on the exterior. We have chosen two flavors so far - chocolate cake with chocolate ganache, and s'mores (graham cake, marshmallow and chocolate fillings). We can get a third flavor if we want, but I don't know if I care. We wanted buttercream on the exterior rather than fondant and still need to decide minor details like square or round. Our venue will also provide additional desserts with the cake.
Posted by SewInLoveWithDMB[/QUOTE]

I think we're doing smores too! I made FI and smores cake for his bday in March and that's all I heard about for days. Love smores!

redcoatfollower · April 2013

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[QUOTE]In Response to Re: Cakes : I only recommend if you've done a lot of cake decorating in the past. I laid out a simple design that I know I can execute. I'm making all of my gumpaste flowers in advance, so it's basically just assembling it the day prior and we're good to go. Since it's mostly styrofoam, I don't have to worry about internal supports, one less piece to the puzzle.
Posted by SimplyME22[/QUOTE]

yeah, I am not that talented :)

redcoatfollower · April 2013

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[QUOTE]In Response to Re: Cakes : Yeah. He picked the date, which was fine by me. All I cared about that it was in the fall, but still some what warm.
Posted by Stina51286[/QUOTE]

That's nice :)

redcoatfollower · April 2013

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[QUOTE]Cupcakes & a small cutting cake. We picked out flavors during my February visit. Cutting cake: red velvet. Cupcakes: red velvet, lemon, cherry cheesecake, blueberry "muffin" and GF vanilla. We're going to have "normal" sized and "mini" sized cupcakes. (Although the bluberry & cherry cheesecake can't be made in the mini size).
Posted by lplions[/QUOTE]

yum!

redcoatfollower · April 2013

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[QUOTE]We are having cider and doughnuts and a s'mores bar probably.
Posted by mochietoe[/QUOTE]

I love the cider and donuts idea!

SimplyME22 · April 2013

I haven't taken pictures during my last few test runs, this was playing with a new lace mold I bought specifically for the wedding. One tier will be entirely lace.

Still debating adding a tier of ruffles, it depends how the basic design goes, can always add it in later, but didn't want the design to depend on it, it's a bit time consuming.

LilyASF42 · April 2013

LOVE the lace layer! (i'm a little obsessed with lace :-) ) jealous of your skills!

redcoatfollower · April 2013

Thanks for sharing everyone!

@simplyME22 love the lace!

thejucheidea · April 2013

We're having a small cutting cake for us because I have celiac disease. It's going to be a vegan, gluten free spice cake with chai 'buttercream' frosting.

We're going to have an international dessert bar for the guests.

jaenella · April 2013

Cupcakes (carrot, vanilla with raspberry icing, chocolate with chocolate icing) plus a small top tier for cutting! It will come out late night though, as we have lemon cheesecake for desert (literally the most AMAZING thing I have ever tasted).

Ro041 · April 2013

We are having an awesome cupcake bakery come out in their food truck and have cupcakes available for everyone. We are going to pick 5 flavors sometime later this summer. It should be fun!

PearlyPanda · April 2013

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[QUOTE]We are having cider and doughnuts and a s'mores bar probably.
Posted by mochietoe[/QUOTE]

<div>That sounds delish! </div><div>We are having a traditional cake. Maybe I'll feel a bit daring and throw in some fruit filling. </div><div>
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shaylagirl · April 2013

That lace cake looks a-friggin-mazing! WOW!

The plan is to have a cake; not sure what flavor(s) though. Probably a simple 3 tier with buttercream frosting, thinking a chocolate layer, vanilla layer and maybe the top layer lemon cream or something different. No idea.

Mostly we're keeping ours simple because dessert is included with the lunch we're serving (canollis and some other undetermined dessert as of yet).

I tried SUPER hard to talk FI into doing a grooms' cake, a la "Steel Magnolias" which he shot down. I mean, come ON! We live in Texas! An armadillo shaped red-velvet cake would have been EPIC!!!

SweetB7 · April 2013

We are doing pie: apple, pumpkin, and possibly pecan. My FI hates cake so it was a good alternative.

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