RE: Looking for Wedding Cake Recipes and Tips
For the cake if you have not completed a large tiered cake before then try a small cake for cutting and sheet cakes for the guests. You will need about 10 boxes of cake to cover the 200 people. Also remember that wedding cake slices are much smaller than what you would eat normally.
Posted on 09/25/2007 | Report Spam or Abuse
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By Francine LeBlanc (Guest Post)
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HI I am doing my own wedding cake catering and all the crafts. (starting now for next year) looking for cake recipes and the amounts for catering veggie and meat trays, potato salad and mac. salad trays. not sure what to buy for 200 people. dont want to under buy. My Mom used to do this on the side, though she is not here any more. i have to go on my own. hope to get some help thank you all. Francine, you can reach me at franlebathotmaildotcom
Posted on 08/11/2007 | Report Spam or Abuse
RE: Looking for Wedding Cake Recipes and Tips
To Pat. Go to Duncan Hines web site and the recipe for a dense cake is posted under FAQ. It uses less oil.
Posted on 07/21/2007 | Report Spam or Abuse
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By Pat Cranick (Guest Post)
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I am looking for the water, oil mixture with the Duncan Hines cake mixes for a wedding cake. I made one some time ago, and the receipe was inside the box, but it is no longer there. The difference was a more dense cake. Can anyone help me with this.
Posted on 06/23/2006 | Report Spam or Abuse
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If you have a local walmart go to the wedding section by the crafts. They have their wilton cake pans which are the only pans i would suggest using. Lots of craft store also have great ideas.
Posted on 04/08/2005 | Report Spam or Abuse
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Great directions MamawKC, thanks for sharing.
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Ive baked wedding cakes for 25 years and NEVER baked anything but a boxed cake mix. Duncan Hines is the best. If you don't want all white cake, make another layer a different flavor. People like chocolate and butter pecan is another favorite.Forget all the fillings. Most of your guests don't care for it anyway.
Wilton sells the pans. Mine are 3" deep so you don't have to bake two layers to stack to get a nice thick cake. If you know someone who has these size pans maybe the'll loan them to you. You can go with a 12"bottom a 10" middle and an 8" top.
If you don't have the plates and pillars to stack them, stack them using the DOWEL method. Put the bottom cake on a cardboard circle that is about 14" around. Using small wooden dowel sticks mark a line about 1/2" above the top of the cake. BE SURE TO LEVEL THE CAKE, using a long sharp knife cutting off the excess so that it will sit flat on your circle.
BACK TO THE DOWELS -- after you've measured them 1/2" above the cake cut them off. these need to all be the same length so that the next layer will not sit crooked. After you've cut them (you'll need at least 4) place them in the center of the cake. These won't show but will help support the next layer.
Layer 2: repeat the same process. Level and place on a cardboard circle that is about 11-12" around. Place you dowels in the center then remove and cut to where it is 1/2" above that cake.
Layer 3: Repeat the process putting this top cake on a 10" circle. Since this is your top cake it will not need dowels. If these are cut good and straight and all the same length you have all the support you need to hold up the cake.
The reason the circles are larger than the cake is to allow room for a border or if you're an amature at this you may want to just buy lace to go around it or put a ring of flowers to cover the excess cardboard and keep the dowels from showing.
Incidently, I spray my pan with Pam and you won't have to flour them. TRUST ME-- if you can find the pans and will follow the cake mix recipe and MY (hopefully CLEAR) directions, you CAN BAKE your own wedding cake.
The Decorators icing recipe is: 1 bag Confectioners Powdered sugar 1 cup CRISCO (DO NOT use a cheap substitute or icing will be greasy), and SMALL amounts of water added unil when mixed with a mixer becomes of a good spreading consistency. Add 1 tsp Butter flavoring.
To spread smoothly dip a long thim cake spatula in hot water while spreading on the icing. Dont worry, the water will dry but your icing will be good and smooth. I don't often do this but an easy way to make a pattern on the cake is to allow it to dry good and use a paper towel with a BUMPY sort of texture to it and rub it gently over the cake to make the print of the texture on the sides and top of the cake. Add flowers and you'll have a pretty and inexpensive wedding cake and have a real feeling of accomplishment that YOU did it yourself! If you have any further questions I'll watch and respond. This is my first TEACHING LESSON.
Sorry it's so lenghty... Hope you didn"t fall asleep in class!
Posted on 04/07/2005 | Report Spam or Abuse
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for my friends wedding, we made her 8 10inch round cakes. We just used the boxed cake mix. all different flavors/ fillings ( like a lemon cake with raspberry filling and carrot cake with a cream cheese filling, and so on and so fourth) each cake had a different pattern that it was decorated, one was a basket weve design, one was swiss dots.... And they whole thing was presented on a plant stand ( that the groom made for the cakes), they had flower garland wrapped on it, nothing to gawdy, but it was great for an out-door wedding.
anyways, If you are going to do it your self I would recomend keeping it simple, because there will be so much going on, doing something extravagant will stress you out. especially if you are not familer with cake making and decorating.
Good luck!!!
Posted on 02/10/2005 | Report Spam or Abuse
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By Grace Potts (Guest Post)
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The best, and most complete instructions I have found for this are in the current edition of The Joy of Cooking. I did not use this for my wedding, but wish I had. For my wedding, I made a black forest cake, and it was lovely with all the cherries and whipped cream, but it did not freeze well and so didn't taste very good. The Joy of Cooking recipe freezes quite well.
I catered my own wedding, and it came off mostly well. Please feel free to ask me for any suggestions on catering your own wedding.
Posted on 01/06/2005 | Report Spam or Abuse
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Go to your local library and look in the 640s. A great book for cakes is "The Cake Mix Doctor," which shows you a variety of ways to doctor up a regular box mix to taste extraordinary. Another book is "Semi-Homemade Desserts." You can also go to the website, http://www.semihomemade.com. Click on the wedding magazine and it will offer two cake recipes. What you might want to do is use the cake mix doctoring recipes from the first book, and use the second book as an example of how to decorate your cake.
Posted on 07/11/2004 | Report Spam or Abuse
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There are websites that you can find with specific wedding cake, cake filling, and frosting recipes. I have a few recipes for custard fillings if you are interested. You can email me directly at tator2er@worldnet.att.net. Just do a search for "Wedding Cake Recipes" and it will give you a ton of sites.
Posted on 05/18/2004 | Report Spam or Abuse
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At my fiance's uncle's wedding they did a very small elaborate cake for the bride/groom and then a different flavored round cake at each table as the centerpiece. Granted it was serve yourself, but they just added some silk rose petals around the cakes and the setting was just perfect.
Also, when my Aunt made my sister's cake she cheated. She had a bakery BAKE the scalloped-shaped cakes and then we iced & decorated them 2 days before. The price for uniced cakes was amazingly cheap.
Posted on 05/18/2004 | Report Spam or Abuse
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I recently attended a wedding where the bride and groom had a very small wedding cake (purchased fairly plain and decorated by groom's mom with fresh flowers) to cut for their pictures. It was just large enough for the wedding party. The rest of the "cake" was actually cupcakes placed on tiered serving platters. They were baked and iced by friends and arranged with more fresh flowers. They tasted great, looked pretty, and no one had to spend an hour at the reception cutting and serving a cake.
Posted on 05/17/2004 | Report Spam or Abuse
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By Melissa Minerd (Guest Post)
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My mother made my wedding cake and I do believe she had used ideas from Wilton Cakes. They used to have books you could buy, not sure if you still can. Sometimes speciality cake and candy shops have different books that you can purchase with ideas and instructions on making your own cakes, and would have all the supplies you would need on hand.
Posted on 05/16/2004 | Report Spam or Abuse
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The best place I have found for MANY different recipes T&T are in the books at the Library, MANY different frostings that work good and icing tips. the best cake was a marble cake (person preference) One of the prettiest cakes had dots of frosting placed all around ..how easy is that? Good Luck!
Posted on 05/14/2004 | Report Spam or Abuse
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