Wedding Cake - Best Off The Shelf Conversion?

AMO

Hi there,

Rather than paying upwards of £150 for a wedding cake, where is the best place to get a nice cake to make do as a wedding cake and then put some decorations like the topper on it?

Is it possible to get two sizes of the same cake and then make your own multi-tier cake by getting one of those metal frame for lifting one layer above the other, but are really 2 standard cakes?

Wedding cakes taste awful, overly sweet and non-fresh.

Surely there must be a way to get a normal nice chocolate cake from the supermarket decorated as a wedding cake and save some pennies also?

Thanx

AMO

rachfriar78

Tesco do plain iced fruit cakes in 3 different sizes, you can normally get cake tiers and pillars in cake shops or try on ebay.

I'm planning on using ready made cakes to do a similar one to this
http://www.marksandspencer.com/gp/product/B00170PCUK/sr=1-3/qid=1231887626/ref=sr_1_3/278-2590919-8148057?ie=UTF8&node=76999031%2C&m=A2BO0OYVBKIQJM&keywords=&mnSBrand=core&size=9&rh=&page=

I just don't feel i can justify paying £180 for a bog standard cake minus the flowers. I can get the 3 cakes for about £35 and then the flowers for £25 at the upmost.

Not too sure about the choc cake though x

Tinka21

Marks and Spencer do the plain cakes to decorate yourself, they come in 3 sizes and either sponger or fruit.

HTH

cookiedough38

we are going for a tesco cake to cut, we will serve it but I will also be serving chocolate cake too! Bet I know which goes first

Minxy_Bella

I was going to go for a M&S cake and had bought all the feathers/diamante/pearls etc to decorate it but then fell totally in love with a cake we saw at a wedding show and my family insisted that we had that one.

But if we hadn't gone there that day, the M&S one would have been fantastic, I'm sure!

louisebbctlc

Iam gettin my cake from Asda 3 sizes and goin 2 hire a cake stand in the shap of a S!!

chardonnay_2

louise - where are you hiring the stand from and how much does it cost - just wondering if cheaper than the ones we have seen on ebay.? thanks

moggylover

rachfriar78 wrote: »

Tesco do plain iced fruit cakes in 3 different sizes, you can normally get cake tiers and pillars in cake shops or try on ebay.

I'm planning on using ready made cakes to do a similar one to this
http://www.marksandspencer.com/gp/product/B00170PCUK/sr=1-3/qid=1231887626/ref=sr_1_3/278-2590919-8148057?ie=UTF8&node=76999031%2C&m=A2BO0OYVBKIQJM&keywords=&mnSBrand=core&size=9&rh=&page=

I just don't feel i can justify paying £180 for a bog standard cake minus the flowers. I can get the 3 cakes for about £35 and then the flowers for £25 at the upmost.

Not too sure about the choc cake though x

As a cost saver on the flowers - if you like a nice simple dressing, place a miniature crystal vase (nice tiny ones available on eBay for as little as £5.00) in the middle of the top layer, and place two or three tiny fresh flowers in a piece of damp cotton wool therein on the morning of the wedding. If you want to make it a little bit fancier you can tie some ribbon around the vase and dangle it down sides of cake (and you can do this with several thin ribbons) and then pin on some more of the small fresh flowers - from your own garden if you can for extra MSE touch;)

babs2008

How about making your own?

Then you can have exactly the type of cake you want - choc, sponge, fruit etc. Even different flavoured layers.

I'm sure with practice you could perfect decorating it too.

Failing making your own, surely everyone has a friend or relative who makes great cakes.

AMO

Thanx. I can't believe that wedding cakes are so stupidly expensive. I am sure that many of the providers of these cakes just get a 2-3 tier stand and by 2-3 off the shelf cakes and paste icing over them anyway!

AMO

lynzpower

its the utterance of the W word that makes the price jump ridiculously.

Also waitrose do plain cakes too, and you can get cashback via quidco for these ( same price as M&S)