Fake Wedding Cakes?

[NinjaPoodle]

Originally Posted by WhiteDaisy128

I'm not trying to act snobby. I honestly think my cake (and many other wedding cakes) taste much better than sheetcake. Sheetcake is often OVER moist and has an every-day cake taste to it. I think for a wedding, having something more special helps set the tone of the event. My cake had no fondant (because I do not like the way it tasts), and had the best butter-cream icing I've ever had.

I agree with you about the butter cream tasting better. When I worked at the Culinary Academy here in San Fran, I became friends with some of the pastry students. They let me taste one of their cakes which were covered with fondant. It’s more “pretty” than anything else. It wasn’t bad but butter cream is def. better.

[Stef the Pef]

Am I the only one who got reminded of those rubber cakes at restaurants by this?

Not a fan.

[AGDee]

Well, my cake for my first wedding was fake, but it was not a money saving thing at all. In fact, I think I paid more for that option. They individually decorated the foam layers to be my cake (and only my cake..not a rented one) with real frosting. However, they provided personalized, engraved boxes that contained a full half pound of cake in each box. Each box had a piece of 3 layer cake, a chocolate layer, a cherry chip layer and a white layer. There was raspberry filling and buttercream icing. It was the exact same cake batter that they used if they made the cake itself. Each guest got a lot more cake this way, got some of each type (have you ever seen people fighting over who gets the chocolate when it's on the cake table??), it was in an easy to take home container and there were no worries about the cake falling or becoming damaged. Nobody even knew that the cake was fake because there was a section of "real" cake for where we cut it. Then they whisked the cake away and brought in the boxes of cake.

[PeppyGPhiB]

My best friend had cupcakes as her wedding cake, and it was adorable. Three tiers of vanilla cupcakes with white icing or chocolate frosting, with sugar flowers on top of each one. They were delicious!

For Seattleites, she got them at Cupcake Royale.

[cuteASAbug]

Hostess wedding cake

[BabyPiNK_FL]

In deep bass voice:

"Ohhhh yeah!"

just what we always needed, a cake that you could buy the day of the wedding by running down to the local 7-11!

[AlexMack]

1. I hate buttercream, I will never understand how anyone can eat it.
2. The traditional British wedding cake is fruitcake and royal icing. Not the American version of fruitcake (which I found out is just a giant loaf of dried and candied fruits, very little cake), but actual cake with a lot of dried fruit in it. I HATE dried fruit. That's one wedding tradition that can stand to be changed in the UK.