Wedding - Cake or chocolate fountain

TallGirl

I would go for cake but I hate fruit cake too so I went for chocolate cake. My MIL is a member of WI and she asked there and got someone who was really good at it. Actually it was a fab project to leave with the MIL so mkae sure she got invovled.

Ask around I am sure someone will do one for you and as the others say you can decorate it yourself if it is iced. I agree with the comments of the chocolate fountain making a mess - yes that would be me full of brown stains down my dress. Good luck with it all.

Sallys_Savings

mmmmmmmmm I think this sounds fantastic and would definitely be different...ops the reply didnt come out this was for the profiterole french wedding cake lol

I am in agreement with many others on here, the chocolate fountain is a bit passed it now and doesnt really taste that great either

Curious_George_2

we are having a cupcake wedding cake,
H2B is going to make the cakes, then we will ice and pop a decoration on top and arrange on a big stand..... like this



not only is it a bit different but we will put a cake in a little box for each guest to take home and thats the favours done too,
or they could be dished out and used as dessert!
(you can also have a matching larger cake on the top tier for cutting / photo ops)

moozikgal

We are also having cup cakes at our wedding. i have found some lovely sugar craft flowers which were £1.20 for 20! I plan to make them on the thursday night before the wedding and keep them in airtight boxes and then ship to the venue either on the friday night or the saturday morning. We will also be having a top teir but it will be a standard iced cake, not a fruit cake as the top teir will be a birthday cake for my husband and son!
Hope you find something that takes your fancy.

MrsTinks

ok ok I have reached the conclusion that chocolate fountains are not practical BUT The cake situation is still unresolved...
Depending on the venue we end up with I might go with fairy cake but again it depends... if they will let us serve the cake as dessert and so save me the cost of puddings then I might spend a little extra on it It will depend a lot on that really - I'm not spending £100s on a cake and several hundred on dessert too! But I MIGHT pay for someone to bake the 3 tiers (one chocolate one lemon and the smallest traditional fruit cake) and icing them identically and i will decorate them myself in a style to suit the decor of the venue or the table centre pieces...

shelly

tine wrote:

But I MIGHT pay for someone to bake the 3 tiers (one chocolate one lemon and the smallest traditional fruit cake)

We had the same at our wedding, top tier lemon, middle tier chocolate (had to be iced twice-double layer-as you could see choc thru the icing) and fruit at the bottom. We were told to have the fruit cake at the bottom as it would be too heavy for the top layer and could sink into the middle tier.

moosetastic

shelly wrote:

We had the same at our wedding, top tier lemon, middle tier chocolate (had to be iced twice-double layer-as you could see choc thru the icing) and fruit at the bottom. We were told to have the fruit cake at the bottom as it would be too heavy for the top layer and could sink into the middle tier.

thats the same as me, we had the bottom tier fruit as it was the heaviest and the top two tiers plain sponge with cream through. it all went on the wedding day, and my mum had to bake me a fruit cake to take to the people at work who couldnt make it on the day!!! :rotfl: :rotfl:

MrsTinks

Ah I was thinking of having a stand rather than having them physically on top of each other That way I can have the smallest cake as fruit (well I suppose I could actually have 3 exactly the same size really if they are not on top of each other DUH!!! I can be so blonde at times )

Mummy_Jo

Hi Tine - it looks like you have a lot of decisions still to make. As you appear to have decided to go down the cake route you might want to consider the following option.

To save money you could ice a polystyrene dummy. Basically, have this as your bottom tier but all you need to pay for is the icing to cover it. This is what the professionals use to make up their display cakes. The finish is superb as it is "solid". You can still have a three tier cake but a lot cheaper as obviously the bottom tier is the most expensive to produce.

I'm making my friend's wedding cake this summer - amongst lots of other celebration cakes I have on this year. If you want to go down the fairy cake route... you could always bake them in advance and freeze them. I'm having photos of my friends as children/babies printed onto edible paper and I'll put them onto the fairy cakes. This is their choice they hate traditional weddings. They are actually giving photos of their cat too just to confuse people! But, the point is that you could have anything printed onto the paper and all you do is cut them up and stick them on. V. easy even a child could do it. I pay £6.00 to have a sheet of A4 edible paper printed for me.

Just a thought... If it doesn't appeal pm me and I'll try and come up with some other alternatives

MrsTinks

I think the party is going to be big enough to warrant 3 tiers I am seriously thinking that making it with 3 same sice tiers is probably just as easy Big factor will be if they will allow me to serve the cake as dessert though

Good news is I might have found a photographer for virtually free! One of my staff's OH is looking at going into Wedding Photography and if his pictures are nice I'll hire him to do mine I've also agreed to help him with starting up etc so it's kind of a return of favour

Once I decide a bit more about what I'm doing with the cake i'll give you a shout Mummy Jo