Wedding Cake Recipes Sweeter Than Sweet - Cheap Wedding Cake Mixes & Tasty Ingredient Ideas

How important is the wedding cake. I am afraid I can't answer this, however if we stay with tradition then it's essential to have a wedding cake if it is a perfect wedding you desire. And isn't this what every bride-to-be wants "perfection." If you've asked this question because you're not fond of the ingredients included in a traditional wedding cake then you don't have to have them. Wedding cakes can be tailor designed around your wants with ingredients and decoration of your own personal choosing.

For the perfect wedding add a wedding cake to your wedding to-do-list.

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Preferences for wedding cakes will differ, as they do with wedding dresses, wedding music, wedding locations and wedding guests because people have different likes and dislikes. Nonetheless in most cases the bride and groom always get what they want. The cake is the main focus of the wedding reception making a fabulous centerpiece. Choosing the right wedding cake is important for guests that have a sweet tooth because their focus will be on the cake at all times.

Wedding Cake Recipes Sweeter Than Sweet - Cheap Wedding Cake Mixes & Tasty Ingredient Ideas

There is more to choosing a wedding cake than just pointing to a picture and agreeing that is what you want. Things need to be considered that are often overlooked like the color of the icing and cake design to match your wedding gown or theme. The ingredients used to bake the cake are also very important indeed; after all we have a lot of people to please.

Make light work of choosing your wedding cake and follow the tips listed below. With this daunting prospect in mind, let us make your wedding cake planning less of a hassle.

First of all you need to be aware there is more than just taste and color of your cake to consider. Planning a wedding on a budget can cause issues regarding the cake but you shouldn't let this worry you. Cheap is just as tasty as expensive, and just as pretty too.

Before planning gets underway sit down with your partner and ask yourselves.

How much money your prepared to spend on your wedding cake, or if you`re counting the pennies then what type of cake you can afford?

The cake is to feed the mouths of many so plan the size of the cake around how many guests you're likely to invite.
Doing the above will save you money. Too much cake is a waste if you go for big. The type of wedding cake you can realistically have should be determined on the pointers mentioned above.

Choosing a wedding cake should have you think "shape, color, ingredients and decoration.

A great place to start for ideas on cake appearance is to browse pictures in magazines, books and wedding cake websites. Visit the bakery and see the real thing. This will give you the opportunity to talk about your desired cake.

It helps if you know the reason for wanting a wedding cake. Is it to use as a piece of eye candy. If so concentrate on design and prettiness.

If it's for hundreds of guests to feed on? Then size of the cake is important.

Do you want the wedding cake to match your color scheme, if so speak with the baker in advance so he/she can advise on what will work and ideally suited to your request?

In the world of wedding cakes decorations come in vast variety. Cake accessories like ribbons, flowers, wedding cake toppers, edible rosebuds to candles are a few to mention.

Most "essential" in any wedding cake is the flavor. You can have the loveliest creation made but what's the point of pretty without taste, it doesn't' make sense and neither does it make good eating. Traditionally wedding cake filling is fruit. But if you prefer chocolate as your selected flavor then there's no reason why you and your guests can't have chocolate.

Out with tradition to make way for new scrumptious wedding cake flavors eaten at weddings. The white wedding cake with white butter-cream icing is not as common as it was judging by modern day weddings.

Remember this is your day and your cake.

Cheesecake goes down well. It's an ideal choice for the not so grand wedding, but is fabulously appropriate and cheap for a small wedding. Meringues, baked Alaska, fruitcakes, chocolate cake, and angel food cake are also increasingly popular.

You never see a guest turn their nose up at carrot cake, is it because it's moist and spicy? Carrot cake is usually based on oil instead of butter. If you're not a lover of raisins you don't have to add them. Swap with pecans or walnuts. If you're doing your own decorating then cream over with white icing adding pecans here and there with other edible cake decorations.

Pumpkin cake another favored sweet confectionery. Decorate pumpkin cake with cranberry and greenery. At its best when iced with cranberry butter cream.

Chocolate-Raspberry - a yummy chocolate cake with a raspberry filling. Icing is chocolate butter cream. The cherry on the cake for the chocolate-raspberry (excuse the pun) is to pipe cream with chocolate curls and decorate with edible floral cake accessories. Pressed and crystallized flowers are fabulous cake decorations.

Do you think your guests will fancy a slice of coconut cream pound cake, if so do them a favor and serve up this cake because a little of what you fancy does you good.

Coconut Cream Pound Cake Recipe

Ingredients

225 g softened butter
224 g softened cream cheese
600 g white sugar
Half a dozen eggs
5 ml coconut extract
375 g all-purpose flour
2 g baking powder
150 g coconut flakes
Baking Instructions

Preheat oven to 325 degrees F (165 degrees C). Grease and flour a 10 inch tube pan.

Cream the butter and cream cheese until thoroughly blended. Add sugar and whisk to light fluffy texture. Add 1 egg at a time and whisk followed by coconut extract. Pour flour and baking powder in until lightly moistened, then the coconut. Mix is ready for the baking pan.

Bake for 1 hour and 20 minutes. Allow to cool for 10 minutes before moving.

Another cake simple to make and goes down well with wedding guest and their gullets to is the (Easy Light Fruitcake.)

Ingredients
455 g candied cherries, halved
5 candied pineapple rings, finely minced
870 g golden raisins
360 g candied mixed fruit peel
170 g almonds
125 g all-purpose flour
455 g softened butter or margarine
400 g white sugar
Half a dozen eggs
5 ml vanilla extract
60 ml orange juice
625 g all-purpose flour
9 g baking powder
3 g salt
6 split almonds
Baking Instructions

1. Preheat oven to 275 degrees F (135 degrees C). Line the bottom and sides of two greased 9 x 5 x 3 inch loaf pans, and 1 round 4 1/2 inch x 3 inch deep pan with brown paper. Grease the paper.

2. Mix cherries, minced pineapple pieces, raisins, mixed peel, 1 cup pecans, and 1 cup flour in a basin. Blend all ingredients until fully coated with flour and stand to aside

3. Using a separate bowl, cream the butter/margarine and sugar. Whisk in 1 egg at a time. Add orange juice and vanilla and stir. Take 5 cups flour, your baking powder and salt and add to creamy mixture. Add floured fruit and nuts. Carefully pour mix into baking pans. Fill each pan 3/4 full. Add split almonds over the top.

4. Usual baking time 3 hours. Pierce cake with a toothpick and if done the toothpick comes out clean. If the top of your cake darkens before the sides cover with foil.

My suggestion: plain sponge. Nearly every cake base is sponge mix. If a person says they don't like a particular cake, it means they're not fond of certain ingredients used to fancy up and flavor. Keeping it plain allowing your guest to choose their own fillings, is the key. Fill glass bowls with a variety of flavored fillings (chocolate sauce, custard, jelly, and butter cream, raisins, mixed fruit, syrup, treacle and different flavored jams and fruit sauces? Do this and your guests won't have to wait for you to turn your back before spitting out cake chosen by you.

Wedding Cake Recipes Sweeter Than Sweet - Cheap Wedding Cake Mixes & Tasty Ingredient Ideas

Want to sweeten the guests up with Wedding Cakes or just looking to have the perfect Wedding

Homemade Cake Recipes and Wedding Cake Recipes From Scratch

Making wedding cake recipes from scratch is not that difficult. Take it from me. I have been doing this for over 25 years now. The very first of my homemade wedding cakes was a carrot cake recipe and it was from scratch. Homemade wedding cakes are the best. The only time I EVER used a mix was in a high volume situation. It was exclusively the white wedding cake recipe that was slightly time consuming, and the chefs insisted upon my using their mix. If you have ever worked in a professional kitchen then you know how those head chefs can be at times, it is more about saving money and time, but for me it is so much more about quality. I did manage to sneak in all of my homemade fillings though.

Whether you are a professional pastry chef or an amateur baker making homemade wedding cakes for friends and family, these tips may help.

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Tips

Homemade Cake Recipes and Wedding Cake Recipes From Scratch

• Try to stick with a simple homemade recipe such as one that does not require a lot of fancy steps. A dump cake recipe is a good choice.
• I know it does not sound so delicious but dump recipes basically have one requirement and that is that all ingredients get dumped into the bowl at once and mixed. And that is it. What could be easier than that? One of my best and most frequently requested cake is chocolate buttermilk dump recipe.
• Have all of your ingredients measured out and at room temperature before you start the process of putting it all together.
• Making a wedding cake if taken in steps is just a matter of multiplying your favorite homemade recipe and baking them off in larger pans.
• Fill the cake pans 1/2 to 1/3 full. You can fill a pan a little more if using a lighter batter a little less when using a heavier batter. This is the part that you will need to judge as you gain experience.
• Always grease, flour and put parchment or wax paper along the bottom of the pans.
• Always let the cakes cool completely before covering and storing. You will need cardboard circles to put under each cake for support when lifting and moving the cakes.
• You need to decide how many layers your cakes will be before baking, you can bake each layer separate or cut your cakes in half to make two layers. (It depends on how deep your pans are and how much you fill them as to how many layers you get out of each cake.) For wedding cakes I prefer using a two layer cake with one layer of filling because it keeps the cake a little more stable. But you will need to figure out your preferences.

Homemade Cake Recipes and Wedding Cake Recipes From Scratch

If you have cake baking decorating questions or questions about baking wedding cakes from scratch please go to my website and ask away. I welcome it. I have recipes at my website for you such as chocolate stout cake, a white wedding cake recipe and a homemade red velvet cake recipe and a whole lot more.

Lorelie Carvey invites cake decorators and pastry chefs to ask questions http://www.wedding-cakes-for-you.com and to to browse through her unique cake collection to spark new ideas, watch video tutorials, find recipes and more. Subscribe to Lorelie's blog at http://www.wedding-cakes-for-you.com/wedding-cakes-blog.html to stay updated on all the latest additions.

Dessert Only Wedding Reception Ideas

With the rising costs of weddings every year, couples everywhere are trying to find ways to extend their budget while still planning a wedding and reception of their dreams. Many couples are starting to use other themes for their wedding receptions instead of serving a large dinner, or a cake and punch reception only, and the ideas are getting more and more creative. A dessert reception theme is starting to take off. You may have looked into it without knowing where to start or what to serve. Here are some of the most popular ideas for desserts in your dessert only reception. You can choose to implement only one of these ideas, or several for more variety so that everyone can have their favorite.

1. Make a Cookie Table

Bakeries

Many bakeries, caterers, and even grocery stores can make large platters of assorted cookies at an affordable cost. You can either use the platters they come in, or arrange them yourself on the table using the decorations of your choice to dress up the table. An assortment of chocolate chip, peanut butter, oatmeal raisin, snicker doodles, double chocolate, or a special favorite of yours will be sure to grab your guests attention.

2. Rent a Chocolate Fountain

Chocolate fountains are starting to be used more and more at receptions as they can be very beautiful, smell wonderful, and make a great dessert table! They rent relatively cheaply, and then include your favorites in large bowls around the fountain for guests to dip or have drizzled with chocolate. Some favorites include pretzels, marshmallows, strawberries and other fruits, Oreo cookies, graham crackers, and much more!

3. Ice Cream Sundae Bar

Seriously, who doesn't like an ice cream sundae? This usually works best with a caterer since they have the appliances to keep everything cold throughout your reception, but if you can find a way to do it yourself, more power to you! Start out with vanilla or chocolate ice cream and then have bowls set out of different things for your guests to add to their sundaes. Chocolate sauce, sprinkles, nuts, cherries, whipped cream, chocolate chips, and much more! Definitely a reception your guests will not soon forget!

4. Make a Candy Table

Making a candy table at your wedding reception is another idea growing in popularity. This is mainly because it can be doubly used as wedding favors. Put large bowls of your favorite kinds of candy on the table(be sure you have enough), along with little take home boxes and scoops in the candy for each guest to help themselves to their favorite and take home for later.

5. Wedding Cake

Duh. Seriously, you still want to have your wedding cake, and most everyone is going to want to try it. Have one of your dessert tables at your reception include both wedding cakes, and have someone slice up your cake so that each guest can come by and have a piece of your beautiful wedding cake.

Not everyone will be able to handle a dessert reception with sugar filled snacks only. Be sure to include some sugar free snacks and candy for anyone with diabetes. You will need something for your guests to drink, and the most popular refreshments for a dessert reception is coffee, tea, and of course, milk!

Dessert Only Wedding Reception Ideas

This wedding help site will get you off to the right start. Finding great ideas for planning a dessert reception are just one of many articles, tips and tricks to make your wedding perfect.

Wedding Cakes - The Traditional Separated Cakes Are Being Replaced by More Modern Designs

The standard designs of wedding cakes from years past featured independently separated cakes. These cakes were separated by a system of plates and pillars. The pillars were either of Grecian design or Swan style. Perhaps you've seen cakes that had three or four separations, with cake sizes that ranged from eight to fourteen inches.

The bottom tier which would be the largest cake at fourteen inches may have been situated on the top of a fountain stand. In between the fountain stand could be a water fountain, with three cascades, and interior lights plus running water which was possibly tinted with color. On the very top of the smallest cake, the eight inch in this example, would sit a plastic bride plus a groom ornament. The cake itself would have had roses, pearl beading, foil silver or gold leaves, and so forth.

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Today's brides are planning their wedding cakes with simplicity at heart. Their preferences are stylish, but simple and down-to-earth, including the dress, reception and most of all, the wedding cake. Straightforward, sophisticated designs decorate today's wedding cakes. Many brides would like cake decorations that replicate the lace plus beading on their bridal gowns, and many gowns feature clean, vintage designs. Requested decorations can be tailored to suit the couple's personalities. Gum Paste, fresh or silk flowers, ribbons, beads, tulle and lace are trendy for 2010.

All wedding cakes are not just white. Off tones, such as for instance ivory are getting increasingly accepted. Circular tiers for wedding cakes still continue to be a favorite choice, but square, octagon, elliptical, heart and hexagon shaped cakes are commonly requested. The flavor of the cakes and fillings differ extensively and brides are frequently requesting non-traditional cake varieties, for example cheesecake, carrot, red velvet, tiramisu and even chocolate cake. Icing requests also have become more varied.

In response, bakeries are not just offering traditional buttercream, but in addition Rolled Fondant, rolled buttercream, non-dairy, whipped cream, cream cheese, white chocolate and marzipan. Brides are requesting handcrafted gum paste flowers. Gum paste flowers are available in over a hundred 100 unique styles, and are purchased through cake decoration supply stores.

Stacked tiers or acrylic stands with separated tiers are fashionable styles. Sculpted cakes are also being asked for more regularly, often for themed weddings. A comparatively new concept that is increasing in recognition is stacked and tiered cupcakes as an alternative choice and a substitute for traditional wedding cakes. Numerous couples are also choosing different decorated cakes for every guest table.

Wedding cakes account for 8 percentage of an average full-line retail bakeries' sales, according to Modern Baking's Retail Bakery Survey. Separated cakes tend to be sold by the portion, so check your area for the going price and charge for the cakes accordingly.

Wedding Cakes - The Traditional Separated Cakes Are Being Replaced by More Modern Designs

Supplementary information regarding wedding cakes can be found at our website, which features many of the hot cake decorating design styles. Oasis stands for Ornaments and Specialty Ingredients Source. We represent all major manufacturers of cake decorating supplies. We are your personal purchasing agents and act as a one stop shopping source for all your cake decorating and candy making requirements including holiday cake decorations, edible cake decorations, specialty cake ingredients, Edibles. Rolled Fondant, & more http://www.oasisupply.com.

Fishing Wedding Cake Topper

It seems so much of a wedding is about the bride, but what would a wedding be without a groom? A nice way to demonstrate your love and devotion for your new husband is to have a cake topper that is themed with his favorite hobby. Fishing, perhaps?

Maybe your new husband has a special fly that he likes to use when he fishes that you can have incorporated into your cake topper. Use may use the actually fly, a new one of course, or have a cake decorator make one for you. For a little fun, you can have the bride and groom sitting barefoot on the top of the cake, reels in hand. For a real laugh, you can have either the groom or the bride fishing for the other. You can find all kinds of customized wedding cake toppers online. Give yourself enough time to have it arrive and to make sure that it is what you thought you were getting. Sometimes what you see online and what you get aren't exactly the same thing.

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You could have a crystal or a glass wedding cake topper with two kissing fish in it. Having live fish in a fishbowl on the top of your cake will make quite an impression. If you aren't sure the real thing is for you, blown sugar could create an edible illusion of a fish bowl and sugar fish could be placed inside.

For a truly unique cake, you can have it designed like an aquarium with each tier a layer of the ocean complete with coral reefs, fish, algae, and a topper of a bride and groom in a fishing boat. Just about every icing is easy to tint. Sea blue fondant would make smooth waters or rich, aqua butter cream could give a little texture to your cake.

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From Traditional to Trendy, Bakery Crafts is #1 in Wedding Cake Kit Sales

Believe it or not Bakery Crafts® has put together an easy system to help in decorating wedding cakes. This system has the ability of one wedding kit to be transformed into literally, hundreds of wedding cake designs. Each kit will contain everything necessary, while leaving no excess inventory or missing pieces.

Cake decorators will take advantage of the complete library of wedding kit photos to customize their presentation of inventoried Bakery Crafts Wedding Kits. They even have a wedding cake making video which is an instructional video showing techniques used to decorate wedding cakes. The video is about twenty minutes long.

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Presentation Manual: The Presentation Manual includes a things to consider list. Future brides and grooms can browse through tips from how to pick the perfect wedding cake to which accessories will accentuate their personal wedding centerpiece. Bakery Crafts has a variety of cake jewels, gum paste flowers, figures, and ornaments to adorn any design. Other helpful information includes a serving's guide for cakes with or without a top layer to plan for any size gathering.

Instruction Manual: The coordinating Instruction Manual includes pictures of each cake with step-by-step instructions in both English and Spanish. Other instructions include: Stacking and separating a cake, making scallop and other design features on the cake sides, cutting the cake, boxing the cake, using Fondant, and adding bow details.

The Assembly Kit: Everything you need to build the cake comes in the kit, except the cake! No need to figure out what plates, columns, boards or wedding boxes to order. Ordering extra pieces creates excessive inventory. Delivery and set-up are worry-free with no equipment to be returned. I suggest to build the cost of the wedding cake kit, directly in the price of your finished cake.

Single Plate Separators (SPS) plate system and columns make assembly a breeze: One-time use concept, Simply and accurate centering of supporting tiers, Adjustable columns height, Easy dismantling of stacked cake on boards for cutting slices, Eliminates unsafe pegs and wooden dowels, Selections using our Single Use Stands (SUS) benefit from:

Strong, durable, and recyclable tubing, Extremely stable construction, Disposable Styrofoam plates, White drape and ivy accessories included, 3, 5, and 6 tier designs, 1, 2, 3 assembly.

The Bakery Crafts unparalleled Delivery System consists of boxes with templates that secure the cake tiers in place for transportation. Use the fold away sides for easy cake removal and a smooth, undisturbed placement. Delivering the cake is most important. After all the time and effort that you put into the making and decorating of the wedding cake, you'll want to make sure that it is delivered in one piece!

From Traditional to Trendy, Bakery Crafts is #1 in Wedding Cake Kit Sales

Oasis stands for Ornaments and Specialty Ingredients Source. We represent all major manufacturers of cake decorating supplies. We are your personal purchasing agents and act as a one stop shopping source for all your cake decorating and candy making requirements including holiday cake decorations, edible cake decorations, specialty cake ingredients, Edibles. Rolled Fondant, & more http://www.oasisupply.com

Homemade Cake Recipes and Wedding Cake Recipes From Scratch

Making wedding cake recipes from scratch is not that difficult. Take it from me. I have been doing this for over 25 years now. The very first of my homemade wedding cakes was a carrot cake recipe and it was from scratch. Homemade wedding cakes are the best. The only time I EVER used a mix was in a high volume situation. It was exclusively the white wedding cake recipe that was slightly time consuming, and the chefs insisted upon my using their mix. If you have ever worked in a professional kitchen then you know how those head chefs can be at times, it is more about saving money and time, but for me it is so much more about quality. I did manage to sneak in all of my homemade fillings though.

Whether you are a professional pastry chef or an amateur baker making homemade wedding cakes for friends and family, these tips may help.

Cake Recipes

Tips

• Try to stick with a simple homemade recipe such as one that does not require a lot of fancy steps. A dump cake recipe is a good choice.
• I know it does not sound so delicious but dump recipes basically have one requirement and that is that all ingredients get dumped into the bowl at once and mixed. And that is it. What could be easier than that? One of my best and most frequently requested cake is chocolate buttermilk dump recipe.
• Have all of your ingredients measured out and at room temperature before you start the process of putting it all together.
• Making a wedding cake if taken in steps is just a matter of multiplying your favorite homemade recipe and baking them off in larger pans.
• Fill the cake pans 1/2 to 1/3 full. You can fill a pan a little more if using a lighter batter a little less when using a heavier batter. This is the part that you will need to judge as you gain experience.
• Always grease, flour and put parchment or wax paper along the bottom of the pans.
• Always let the cakes cool completely before covering and storing. You will need cardboard circles to put under each cake for support when lifting and moving the cakes.
• You need to decide how many layers your cakes will be before baking, you can bake each layer separate or cut your cakes in half to make two layers. (It depends on how deep your pans are and how much you fill them as to how many layers you get out of each cake.) For wedding cakes I prefer using a two layer cake with one layer of filling because it keeps the cake a little more stable. But you will need to figure out your preferences.

Homemade Cake Recipes and Wedding Cake Recipes From Scratch

About this Author

If you have cake baking decorating questions or questions about baking wedding cakes from scratch please go to my website and ask away. I welcome it. I have recipes at my website for you such as chocolate stout cake, a white wedding cake recipe and a homemade red velvet cake recipe and a whole lot more.

Lorelie Carvey invites cake decorators and pastry chefs to ask questions http://www.wedding-cakes-for-you.com and to to browse through her unique cake collection to spark new ideas, watch video tutorials, find recipes and more. Subscribe to Lorelie's blog at http://www.wedding-cakes-for-you.com/wedding-cakes-blog.html to stay updated on all the latest additions.

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