To cupcake or not to cupcake

Breizy Posted: May 12, 2007 11:26 PM

To cupcake or not to cupcake

I dont want to do the traditional white wedding cake...my sister thinks I'm crazy for wanting a chocolate frosted wedding cake or cupcakes...anyone have pics of either or an opinion on this...thanks so much

Bella77 Posted: May 13, 2007 12:30 AM

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I don't have pictures but this is something I'm considering too.... I like it, and I've seen it done really well. If that's what you want, it's your wedding, go for it!

Pencils Posted: May 13, 2007 12:52 AM

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I've seen gorgeous chocolate wedding cakes--in fact, I've seen gorgeous wedding cakes in every color. I was just admiring one in MS Weddings, a yellow one covered with tiny white daisies. Lovely.

We're actually doing both for our wedding: a large tiered cheesecake, and a big tower of cupcakes. Also a chocolate groom's cake, but that will have whipped cream frosting. The cheesecake will be decorated with ribbon and fresh roses, and the cupcakes will be frosted in pastel versions of our wedding colors, with flowers and pearlized sugar on top. Can't wait to see how they come out! And the cupcakes will be 40% yellow, 40% chocolate, and 20% carrot cake. Personally, I love carrot cake, but apparently not everyone does. It's cake, and it's good for you! What's not to love?

klingklang77 Posted: May 13, 2007 02:26 AM

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Chocolate frosted cakes look cool! I dont have any pics, but the last wedding I went to had this (Profiterole AKA croquembouche) as a cake, I wish I had it as my cake.

PeteysBride Posted: May 13, 2007 08:44 AM

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I Love the cupcake idea but I have heard it is a lot more expensive so we didn't want to go that route. As far as chocolate, do it if you like uit. The place we are having our reception had a chocolate cake at the food tasting: chocolate mousse and banana filling. OMG! Layers of white and chocolate cake..DELICIOUS!

Tori9299 Posted: May 13, 2007 08:48 AM

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I love the cup cake idea, but I don't care anymore anything is fine. As long as it looks amazing.

Pencils Posted: May 13, 2007 09:37 AM

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Posted by PeteysBride
I Love the cupcake idea but I have heard it is a lot more expensive so we didn't want to go that route. As far as chocolate, do it if you like uit. ]

I don't know if it's more expensive, it might depend what you get and where. We get a cake with our package from the hall, and the baker didn't charge us any extra for the cupcake tower. We met with the baker--Black Forest Bakery--told him what we wanted, and he specifically said it didn't cost more, and I know that many things, like fondant icing, do cost more. So I think it depends.

jessica08bride Posted: May 13, 2007 09:39 AM

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originally I wanted to do this as well but FH demanded we have a regular cake! who knew. but the ideas I had previously were, cupcakes, cream puffs, fruit tarts, and chocolate mousse cups.

emcheung Posted: May 13, 2007 11:05 AM

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why don't you have both. have a cake on the top tier and cupcakes on the bottom. that way, you have the best of both worlds.

Pinkiegirll07 Posted: May 13, 2007 01:08 PM

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I think the cupcake thing is a fantastic idea!! FH is more traditional though, so we're going to get a regular cake!

femmes Posted: May 13, 2007 02:58 PM

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CUPCAKES!! that is a great idea..i love red velvet ones. i need to ask fh about this!!!

milana Posted: May 13, 2007 03:29 PM

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Here are a few pictures:

catsgirl Posted: May 13, 2007 07:20 PM

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my girlfriend did tiers of different flavors of cheese cakes it was really cool

GettinHutched Posted: May 13, 2007 07:41 PM

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I prefer cupcake cakes to a regular bakery cake ANY day!

Breizy Posted: May 13, 2007 11:19 PM

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thanks so much for all the info...one last question about the cupcakes.....are cupcake wedding cakes made for smaller weddings? I'm probably going to have about 225 people...do I have 225 cupcakes? TIA