Alphabe Thursday- C is for Cake!

Jenny Matlock

No wedding is complete without cake but we do not want a cake of the traditional kind. I do not like fruit cake or sponge so it seemed silly to have one just because history says that you should.

Lots of people now have towers of cupcakes at their wedding but we do not just want to follow the crowd, but we do like the idea of a tower.

Our alternative to traditional wedding cake will be a tower for our guests to enjoy – a tower of sticky, sugary, scrummy doughnuts! Filled with cream and jam!

I found this photo on the Internet which put the idea in my head. It really fits with our theme of a fun, family wedding. I can’t wait!

A Tower of Doughnuts

Because we would like to still have a ceremonial cutting of the cake we are going to have a single tier chocolate cake, with thick butter icing. This will be displayed in our reception hall with a Willow figurine cake topper. I collect these figurines and will display my collection around the cake as many of them were bought for me by David.

I also want this recipe poem displayed beside the cake.

A Good Wedding Cake – Author Unknown
4lb of love
½ of good looks
1 lb of sweet temper
1 lb of butter youth
1 lb of blindness of faults
1 lb of pounded wit
1 lb of good humour
2 tablespoons of sweet argument
1 pint of rippling laughter
1 wine glass of common sense
Dash of modesty
Put the love, good looks and sweet temper
Into a well-furnished house. Beat the butter
of youth to a cream, and mix well together
with the blindness of faults. Stir the
pounded wit and good humour into the
sweet argument, then add the rippling
laughter and common sense. Add a dash
of modesty and work the whole together
until everything is well mixed. Bake gently
for ever.

For our evening guests instead of a buffet we are having a giant cheeseboard but I would also like to have a dessert buffet, rather like a cake stall that you might find at a fete or fair.

Again I have seen pictures on the Internet that have inspired my thinking.

Cake Tables

How would you feel if as a guest at a wedding you were asked to bring a cake?

Hmmm, writing this post is making me hungry, bet the pictures are making you hungry too!

PS – If any cake making company would like to make us a single tier chocolate cake for our wedding on 10th September 2011, I would be happy to write a review on this blog in return. Just thought I would ask as you just never know, someone could use this as a marketing opportunity and we would get a lovely chocolate cake … adding the icing and cherry on to our very special day.

Jenny Matlock

8 thoughts on “Alphabe Thursday- C is for Cake!

  1. We didn’t have a traditional wedding cake, but our Moms made our favorite Napoleon tortes, and Black Forest cakes, and then we ordered fruit tiers as well. You can do anything for your wedding even asking quests to bring a cake. I had to once bring a dessert to a wedding, I was not offended.

  2. Love the ideas. At my daughters wedding she had fruit,lemondrizzle and chocolate cup cakes and individual fruit cakes for guests to take home. She also had a sweat stall with bags and scoops for guests it went down very well and there was nothing left

  3. I love your ideas and looks like we’ve got the cake sorted too! I hope someone gets back and offers the chocolate tier, I’d put myself forward but I’m rubbish at cakes, they taste lovely but my creativity doesn’t stretch to beautiful I’m afraid – and I don’t have a bakery 🙂

  4. Oh I am getting excited for you just reading all about your plans, We didnt have the traditional wedding at all, it was like you said a Family fun day. People commented that it was the best wedding they had been too! And re the bringing a cake to the wedding I think it is a fab idea, you ask them to bring somthing that reminds them of the both of you!

  5. I love reading about your ongoing wedding planning.

    You have so many creative ideas! The giant cheese board sounds like neat refreshments, too!

    Thanks for letting us share in your clever wedding ideas

    It’s so much fun to visit you.

    A+

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