What kind of wedding cake did you have at your wedding?

Question

I am getting married in June and would like something different than the traditional white cake and white icing.

Answer 1

I had a white cake from Walmart when I got married six years ago; I catered my own wedding, I did not have time to bake a cake!
Now, I have my own business as a cake baker and caterer, and I offer about 20 different cake flavors.
For something different, but not too exotic to scare off your guests:
marble
lemon poppyseed
raspberry buttermilk
french lemon
dark chocolate
cinnamon vanilla
coconut
white chocolate
sour cream pound cake

good luck!

Answer 2

don't worry about having a plain Jane white cake.
Weddings today are all about adding personal touches and uniqeness (sp?). Cakes now come in all shapes sizes flavors and colors. Imagins anything you want.. you can find it somewhere. Some interesting cake flavors would be:
passion fruit with white chocolate and raspberries
almond
mango
lemon or lime (yum)
hazlenut
red velvet
rum
apple cinnamon
mocha/cappuccino
plus many many other flavors
for summer weddings think something light and fresh.
then you get to descide for a scrumptious filling. The possibilities are endless!

Answer 3

I had two cakes. Tradition in my family is that you have the tiered white cake for the bride and a single layer chocolate cake for the groom Never did ask why but we had fun with it. My husbands cake was frosted in chocolate and in the center was a ceramic baseball to show his love of the game. (He still plays but now it's the old guys and slow pitch softball) When my sisters got married, one husband is an artist and had a paint palete and the other b-i-l is a carpenter and had a childs hammer and screwdriver. Shows off the groom a little on the special day.

Answer 4

I had three layers that were each different, and we also had a groom's cake. The groom's cake was German chocolate, which obviously wouldn't have fit well into a traditional wedding cake with its frosting, so we had a small groom's cake on the side. It was square, like the main cake, and the outer edges were decorated with big shards of chocolate with white chocolate marbling and a few flowers on one corner. The main cake, like I said, had 3 sections - one was white cake with a chocolate ganache layer and a strawberry mousse layer; the next was white cake with a coffee mousse layer and a chocolate mousse layer; and the last was a chocolate cake with a hazelnut filling. It was frosted with white fondant over white buttercream, and it had fondant shells and starfish along with a few flowers that matched the bouquets (blues and purples).

Answer 5

Two words...CHEESE CAKE! Everyone loves cheesecake and the best part is, its only a little bit more expensive than your traditional cake and it tastes way better. You can get tons of different flavors too. My fiance and I are getting a cheesecake with a different flavor on each tier. We are getting raspberry swirl and chocolate chip. Since my stupid reception site charges to serve it directly to the tables I decided to get all d/f flavors she everyone can go up and choose what they want.

Your right, traditional white cake is way to boring and you should go a completely different route.

Answer 6

I loved my cake! My aunt made it. It was yellow icing with white lacy piping all over it. She does this professionally and has done white cake with coloured accent but never coloured cake with white accent. It was really unique and beautiful. The layers were held up with little cobalt blue glasses. I have seen inverted wine glasses, too, with little flowers inside the glass. Good for you! Break tradition!

Answer 7

Let me give you some advice....when you go shopping around for wedding cakes, ask the baker when do they start baking the cakes. Unknown to me, the baker that did my cake made mine a week before the wedding. It was beautiful, but tasted absolutely horrible.

Answer 8

We had our cake made by a European pastry chef. It was a chocolate sponge cake with pears poached in brandy and chocolate mousse filling with white buttercream frosting. He used a little fondant around the edges and colored buttercream frosting dots for our wedding colors.
Everyone loved our cake--it was different, yet tasty and not too rich.

Answer 9

We had carrot cake with cream cheese frosting and white cake with butter cream frosting. We just wanted carrot but our cake maker suggested that everyone wouldn't like it... so went with both. There was no carrot cake left at the end, though! It was delicious, and worked well with our brunch reception.

Answer 10

At my fiancees mother and father's anniversary they had a cake that had fruit filling in between layers. Really good and it was like a three tiered wedding cake.