Wedding cake?

Question

What's the best way to go about making a wedding cake when the wife prefers vanilla and the husband prefers chocolate?

I'm making a small one for my best friends friends who are renuing their wedding vows. It is going to be a surprise.

I was thinking of doing a small three tier cake but making it to where one side was chocolate and the other vanilla. I am also thinking of doing a butter cream frosting but it might be too rich.
I would like to do two small 2 tier wedding cakes but I on a budget.

Any suggetions?

Answer 1

My fiance is also making our wedding cake. But she's going to make wedding cupcakes and decorate them all nicely. That way you can have either flavour also. Good luck with making the cake.

Answer 2

Do what you came up with. Make a vanilla cake and a chocolate cake then cut them down the middle and take the vanilla cake and the chocolate cake and put them together and while you're at it use cream cheese feeling that would balance it out but butter cream is also good.

Answer 3

Make one cake vanilla and the other chocolate if you are doing two small cakes.

OR

Make the bottom tier of a three-tier chocolate, and the top two tiers vanilla.

Just divide it up.

Answer 4

If you wanted to do two cakes you could get those foam cake forms that you just ice to look like a cake. Then you just have to actually make one layer of cake. One chocolate one vanilla. Presto! Decorating doesn't have to be expensive either. Keep it simple. Go outside and pick some nice flowers for decorations. Be creative. Good Luck.

Answer 5

Whate about doing a marble cake with both chocolate and vanilla? You said you both prefer the opposite so Im guessing that means you like the other kind too. This way everbody can get the best of both worlds.

Answer 6

I have been to weddings where there have been up to 7 different flavors of wedding cake. I see nothing wrong with makeing a 2 layer weding cake. One vanilla and one chocolate. Go to alll rerceipes and ask for a royal wedding iceing. It is made with powdered sugar, crisco, milk and vanilla. Very simple to make and easy to work with.

Answer 7

If you do half and half do one layer white and one layer chocolate, DO NOT cut the cake down the middle, if it is warm out or someone knocks into the table your cake might come into and fall apart, (I have seen this happen). The big thing around here anymore is a cupcake wedding cake. Use your tiers like you were going to for the 3 layer cake but put cupcakes on them, you can really dress them up. And you can do as many flavors as you wish, its not as messy, you dont have to worry about having someone to cut the cake. Its already... http://www.weddingfads.com/index.asp?PageAction=VIEWPROD&ProdID=185

Answer 8

If you're tiering the cake, what about making one tier vanilla and the other tier chocolate, instead of splitting each tier in half?

Answer 9

get two or 3 round cake pans..mix the chocolate cake in one bowl and the vanilla in another...take two pastry bags or use two gallon size zip lock bags..put the vanilla mix in one and the chocolate mix in the other..snip the end off one at a time, go in a circle around the pan with one mix, then right next to it do the same with the other mix..alternate until the pan is full, then move on to the next pan, but this time start with the opposite one you started with on the first pan. It comes out looking like a checkerboard..it's really neat!!

Answer 10

why not do each layer in a different flavor. That is done all the time. and when they cut the cake they can make two slices one of vannilla for the husband to feed the wife and one of chocolate for the wife to feed to the husband. Nothing says it has to be one slice. Besides this will give the photographer more chances to get a better shot.

good luck

Answer 11

Make the bottom tier chocolate and the top two tiers vanilla (or vice versa.) That's a very nice thing for you to do for your friends!