Wedding cakes - alternatives?
We've just been asked if we have any ideas for alternatives to a wedding cake, so here's a couple ...
Alternative 1 - no wedding cake. We photographed a wedding earlier this year at which they simply didn't have one, and to our surprise it looked very much like most of the guests either didn't notice or weren't bothered!
Alternative 2 - a chocolate fountain. In our experience how much of a success this would be depends largely on the person running it, the way they set it up, and both the variety and the quality of the foods provided for dipping.
Alternative 1 - no wedding cake. We photographed a wedding earlier this year at which they simply didn't have one, and to our surprise it looked very much like most of the guests either didn't notice or weren't bothered!
Alternative 2 - a chocolate fountain. In our experience how much of a success this would be depends largely on the person running it, the way they set it up, and both the variety and the quality of the foods provided for dipping.
One other point about chocolate fountains. Some of them have cheapo "vegetable" oil added to the chocolate as the thing's being set up to make it flow better (and taste pretty yukky in our opinion), whereas others seem to run just as well (and taste a whole lot better) without the additive ...
posted by Dan Johnson at 1:33 PM
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We've been to a Yorkshire couples wedding who had a three-tiered pork pie as their cake.
We've also seen a tier of cheeses with Brie as the top tier.
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