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cupcakeshoppe
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Solecito
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Sun Aug 10, 2008 10:09 am |
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I also don't think a cupcake is the same serving as a wedding cake slice.
Using 1 cake mix box I can make a 9x13 cake that would serve 12-16 people (single layer). 1 cake mix box makes 24-30 cupcakes.
Wait a minute, I just thought of something: 1 cake mix box is enough for a 2 layer 8" round cake. According to wilton that cake serves 24.  Wow, I was so wrong. |
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FrostinGal
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Location: San Diego
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Sun Aug 10, 2008 10:36 am |
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Have to agree with Deb, cupcakes are not for formal occasions. Again, my PERSONAL opinion.
If individual cakes are preferred, large petit fours or mini-cakes look so much more elegant to me.
And they are just as easy to do as cupcakes. Unless they want rolled icing, then it's going to cost them! ;o)
I do love the photos of the cupcakes that were posted. Very nicely done cupcakes. |
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CoutureCake
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Location: Minnesota
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Sun Aug 10, 2008 11:44 am |
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Having photos of cupcakes for weddings that may look nice isn't the point, the point is LIVE what they look like (appetizers anyone?? late night snack maybe??). I used to work at a reception hall with three rooms and I've seen a LOT of cakes/cupcakes/desserts and cupcakes just don't work regardless of it being a pig roast or a plated sit-down dinner. I'm with Debi, IMPO, they look tacky/cheap/etc. at weddings REGARDLESS of what the couple spent on them or how well decorated they might be. As a guest, I WANT MY CAKE, not an appetizer for the $500 I just shelled out to show up at the wedding LOL!!!! (the average family will spend between $200 and $1000 to simply attend the wedding). Like Debi said, the last thing I also want to do is to have to eat a dessert with my fingers (you still have to dig your hands in to get the cupcake liner off) or clean up my kid after she had her fingers in it (o.k. friend just licked the frosting/stickiness off of their fingers, the next step is to go to visit with others and in many cases a hand shake for hello- yep - GROOOOOOOOOSSS!!!!). To have a cupcake look fancy it's going to COST, and what's the benefit?
The inherent problem with a regular cupcake is simply with the portion size. When is the last time you had a delicious cupcake in your favorite flavor with ooey gooey buttery flaverful mouth watering frosting and you stopped at ONE?? 'Nuff said! O.k. how many times on here have we discredited the wilton charts (except for price per slice of course    ) for being unrealistic on the size of slice it creates or the fact of the matter in the realities of getting the cutters in the real world to cut something like that? Earlene's charts anyone??? Our own serving charts that many of us have done up because of our experiences.. I can't get an 8" to serve 24 without having mutiny break out... The 8" cake I ordered from another baker for my own birthday (I didn't want to make my own cake or do the dishes this year, so I hired another baker to do it for me - at the level I'd charge!) I believe served us 8, maybe 10 slices  all of which were after a full meal (and a couple the cake was the meal LOL)...
Remember my business motto phrase: "Whatever the bride wants on HER day, it's not my area to judge, I am entitled to my own opinion, and she hers, my only job is to take the money to the bank and show up with what dessert SHE wants to keep my lights on."... |
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Gingoodies
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Location: New Jersey
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Sun Aug 10, 2008 12:00 pm |
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Tackyness aside...  if the customer wants cupcakes.. so be it. I just did filled cupcakes for a bridal shower. They were also topped with a small chocolate high heel (pocketbook/shoes was the shower theme). The MOB ordered 60 cupcakes for 50 ladies, she figured she would have some to take home. WRONG! She called to tell me how great they were and how so many people were taking/asking for more. I would suggest at least 25-30% more servings than people. (100 people=125-130 cupcakes) |
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delicious_designs7
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Sun Aug 10, 2008 12:20 pm |
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I know this is got off subject with whether cupcakes were tacky for weddings. I have seen many photos of wedding where cupcakes look tacky, but I have stumbled upon a website where they do cupcakes at weddings, and they do a superb job. I have attached a couple of photos also. www.perfectfrosting.multiply.com |
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Jorre
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Sun Aug 10, 2008 12:24 pm |
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I think cupcakes are lovely for *some* weddings. I just went to one that was served picnic style in a park. Cupcakes would have been much better IMO since they had no hired help and there was nobody that *wanted* to cut the wedding cake, so people were hacking off their own pieces after the first few got cut.
I just don't think that anyone who is attending a very formal wedding wants to mess with a cupcake. Unless they are being given as boxed favors to take home. |
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kimsmom
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Sun Aug 10, 2008 12:30 pm |
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I think it also reflects the times we live in as well. I believe flaming pudding also used to be in fashion. And we can't forget those cakes with the plastic stairs?
By the way, delicious_designs7 those cupcake are gorgeous. |
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Wendoger
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Sun Aug 10, 2008 12:34 pm |
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I don't think cupcakes are tacky for a wedding.
There are some magnificent wedding cupcake displays on flickr.
The look quite elegant to me.
The one I did didn't look half as good as those...but I am new to the cupcake wedding trend.
Hopefully my next order will look as gorgeous as those;-) |
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mom42ws
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Sun Aug 10, 2008 2:13 pm |
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perhaps i shouldn't take offense, but being that my business is built around cupcakes i take offense to others saying they are gross or tacky or cheap.
i'm in the baking business and the truth of the matter is, no one gives a sh*t about cake at a wedding. the bride does because she's told by society that she should have a big fancy cake and the baker is the only other one that cares. nobody remembers after the wedding what the cake is like. it's just like everything else with weddings, it's all marketed to be a big, huge deal but really it's not. the most important day of your life my ass. it's all just a hubbub. cake and all. cupcakes included.
i don't think people (guests) give as much thought to eating dessert; knife/fork, fingers or otherwise. |
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costumeczar
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Sun Aug 10, 2008 5:03 pm |
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Whoa, now, easy...Cupcakes or not aside, people do remember good wedding cakes! I have people call me for their second daughter's wedding years after I've done the first daughter's, and they tell me that people still talk about how they enjoyed the cake.
They'll also remember a bad cake, believe me! I've been to some weddings where the afternoon's entertainment was watching the cake sloooooowly lean over.
If someone doesn't like cupcakes, don't buy them, get a cake. And if someone doesn't like cake, buy a pie. No big deal. Don't take it as an insult, it's just personal preference. |
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mom42ws
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Sun Aug 10, 2008 5:33 pm |
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okay, i have a little hostility. it's just hard not to take offense to other's remarks about the appropriateness of cupcakes at a wedding.
this is coming from someone on 4 hours of sleep, a completely stressful day and missing my lexapro for a few days! my husbands been miserable around me, too, today. sorry but my last comment was how i was feeling at the time. |
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indydebi
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Sun Aug 10, 2008 5:55 pm |
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mom42ws, I understand your feelings and believe me, I am not criticizing anyone's work or skill or even their own personal preferences. I sometimes feel the same way when people talk about how ugly and tacky fountain/stairs cakes are when I built my business and skill level making those every single weekend for what seems like an eternity (sorry, but I LIKE those cakes!  ); I sometimes feel the same way when folks poke fun at us BC-Only decorators with comments about how we need to "come to the 21st century" and how "old fashioned" our medium is (yet at the same time, these same people are lamenting on how hard doing BC is and how they can't do it, but insinuating that *I* need to "update" MY skills ).
But at the end of the day, I understand it's just personal preference among hundreds and hundreds of cake makers around the world.
It's definitely not intending as offensive to those who like doing cupcakes or those who specialize in cupcakes. |
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MamaBerry
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Sun Aug 10, 2008 6:21 pm |
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| indydebi wrote: | mom42ws, I understand your feelings and believe me, I am not criticizing anyone's work or skill or even their own personal preferences. I sometimes feel the same way when people talk about how ugly and tacky fountain/stairs cakes are when I built my business and skill level making those every single weekend for what seems like an eternity (sorry, but I LIKE those cakes! ); I sometimes feel the same way when folks poke fun at us BC-Only decorators with comments about how we need to "come to the 21st century" and how "old fashioned" our medium is (yet at the same time, these same people are lamenting on how hard doing BC is and how they can't do it, but insinuating that *I* need to "update" MY skills ).
But at the end of the day, I understand it's just personal preference among hundreds and hundreds of cake makers around the world.
It's definitely not intending as offensive to those who like doing cupcakes or those who specialize in cupcakes. |
Ladies,
If it pays your bills then to h*ll with the naysayers.
Work that bc/cupcake and get you money!
Cha-Ching! |
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Chefperl
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Sun Aug 10, 2008 6:37 pm |
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I am still not sure if i feel cupcakes are tacky or not. But I have been watching platinum weddings on WE, and I can't believe that people spend almost $1million on a wedding and have a buffet, now that is tacky.... |
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