Tired Of The Same Old Cake, Any Suggestions?
Decorating By katwomen1up Updated 28 Oct 2009 , 5:57pm by alvarezmom
Making my wedding cake and really want something different, want something that makes you go wow when you bight into it. Any suggestions? I deffinately want chocolate for one layer other than that not sure. Also a good home made filling. Any suggestions appreciated, will need recipes of tried and true.
TIA
What can be "WOW!" to one person might be "OMG you're not EATING that are you?!" to another.
Many people will "WOW" over pumpkin, nutmeg, spice or coconut cake. Me? I'll make the sign of the cross and SLOWLY back out of the room! 
My most popular combinations, ordered by my brides, are white cake with red raspberry filling followed by chocolate cake with chocolate-raspberry filling. The raspberry filling is the sleeve kind.
Indy---
Do you just mix the chocolate the the raspberry before filling the layers? Or do you pour out one and then the other on top of it?
Paul
the most popular flavor of cake that I do for weddings is white choc. raspberry cake torted with alternating layers of cheesecake mousse and raspberry sleeve filling.
add 6 oz. of melted and cooled white choc. to your white cake batter (I also add a box of white choc. pudding mix), then add 1-2 tsp. of raspberry extract (depending on how strong you want the raspberry flavor)
cheesecake mousse is just cheesecake pudding mix mixed into 2 c. of liquid bettercreme w/ 1/2 c. milk, whipped up to a mousse consistency (sooooooo good)
and then the sleeve raspberry filling. Super yummy combo!
cheesecake mousse is just cheesecake pudding mix mixed into 2 c. of liquid bettercreme w/ 1/2 c. milk, whipped up to a mousse consistency (sooooooo good)
and then the sleeve raspberry filling. Super yummy combo!
This sounds OBSCENE GOOD!
Edna
I love key lime cake with key lime mousse is out of this world, and then my other favorite is
amaretto...mmmm
Edna
That just re-emphazies indydebi's point....I would find both those flavor unappetizing.
For me....a good chocolate or just plain old vanilla cake is my preference!
cheesecake mousse is just cheesecake pudding mix mixed into 2 c. of liquid bettercreme w/ 1/2 c. milk, whipped up to a mousse consistency (sooooooo good)
and then the sleeve raspberry filling. Super yummy combo!
This sounds OBSCENE GOOD!
Edna
You can also make a great mousse with any flavor of instant pudding by beating a small box of it with 3 cups of whipping cream!
Key LIME!!!!!!!! Mmmmmmmmmmm!
I have to take a cake to a potluck this weekend so I figured I'd use up some stuff I had....decided to turn a white cake mix/pudding mix into a raspberry cake. Then torted with two layers of whipped white chocolate ganache and one center layer of some leftover raspberry curd I had bought at an amish store and then never made scones to put it on. haha.
Iced in chocolate and will pour in dark chocolate ganache...garnishing with fresh raspberries. Hope it tastes as good as it sounds!
Thanks everyone for your input and how too's, they actually all sound good. Now all I have to do is make up my mind and get baking. Chocolate cake for sure, I do love the sound of the chocolate and raspberry mixed together. The pumpkin cake sounds wonderfull if anyone has a good recipe I would appreciate it. I also love the white chocolate cake. Chocolate and white were my first choices but if I can get a good recipe for the pumpkin maybe I'll have to omit the dummy cake and do a real one. Thanks so much everyone.
Kat
Thanks everyone for your input and how too's, they actually all sound good. Now all I have to do is make up my mind and get baking. Chocolate cake for sure, I do love the sound of the chocolate and raspberry mixed together. The pumpkin cake sounds wonderfull if anyone has a good recipe I would appreciate it. I also love the white chocolate cake. Chocolate and white were my first choices but if I can get a good recipe for the pumpkin maybe I'll have to omit the dummy cake and do a real one. Thanks so much everyone.
Kat
This is my pumpkin cake recipe. It's delicious, very moist and keeps well for about 6 days at room temperature.
I often fill the layers with cream cheese SMBC and orange curd fillings....very popular this time of year!
PUMPKIN CAKE
2 cup all purpose flour (I use White Lily)
2 teaspoon baking powder
1 teaspoon baking soda
2 teaspoon cinnamon
1/4 teaspoon cloves
1/4 teaspoon nutmeg
1/4 teaspoon allspice
1 teaspoon vanilla
4 eggs
1 3/4 cup sugar
2 cup pumpkin
1 cup oil
1 cup chopped walnuts
1 cup dried cranberries
1 cup white chocolate chips
Preheat oven to 325 ºF.
Line two 8 inch layer pans with parchment or waxed paper, then grease and flour pans.
Sift all purpose flour, baking powder, baking soda and spices together. Remove 2 tablespoons of flour mixture and combine with walnuts, cranberries and white chips to coat well. Set aside.
Beat pumpkin, egg and sugar until well mixed. Add the oil and mix on slow for 1 minute.
Mix in flour mixture until well blended.
Fold in flour coated nut, cranberry and chips mixture.
Divide batter between pans and bake until layers test done with cake tester.
Cool in pans 5-10 minutes, then remove and wrap completely in plastic wrap until read to use.
Thanks Jeff, sounds wonderful, scratch the dummy cake and Pumpkin it is! I will have to try the orange curd filling too...yum
One more questions...how well do these fillings freeze? These cakes will be frozen as they are completed due to time restraints.
When I got married I had a chocolate Kalua layer, and white cake with lemon filling layer and a carrot cake layer. I figured there would be something for everyone that way. I also made the carrot cake layer the smallest, figuring everyone would go for traditional...boy was I wrong!!! lol I had a good bit of cake left over, as I had planned on because we wanted left overs, but none of it was carrot cake! It was the first to go.
lol I want to say it was a 10" round, but I can't remember... it's been a while! lol I just didn't think it would have been that popular or I would have made it a bigger tier. Just goes to show you never know what people will want. Oh that sounds good too stsapph. Maybe I could do half of each cake one flavor so I could have 6 different flavors. Lord know's I surely don't need to do 6 tiers. lol
Jeff Arnett said....
I often fill the layers with cream cheese SMBC and orange curd fillings....very popular this time of year! (I don't know how to do that quote thing - sorry)
So Jeff...the Pumpkin Cake sounds fantastic and I really am going to try it - but.....can you please, please share the cream cheese SMBC and the orange curd filling recipes? It would be greatly appreciated and I think that it would be the best choice for this yummy sounding cake. Do both of these have to be refrigerated?
What do you ice your cake with if you are not going to decorate it?
Thanks.
Well the pumpkin cake is delicious for sure, thank you so much for the recipe Jeff! I made it with roasted pecans instead of the walnuts and omitted the cranberries. I had some frozen pumpkin in the freezer so I also used that. The cake is great, I am waiting for my frozen Orange SMBC to dethaw so I can see how well that will go with it.
Edna,
Would you consider sharing your key lime cake and mousse? Sounds fantastic to me! Would love to know how you make yours.
Thanks.
Me too, could you email the recipe?
Thank you,
Lomikesa
In the shop we use bettercream cause it's stays well out of the fridge. Basically you add to the bettercream some keylime flavor and to the cake some simple syrup flavored with keylime juice extract. Is super delicious.
Edna
And I been sick too ...
You guys are killing me.... 
IT'S NOT FAIR
In the UK, the flavour choices are pretty much vanilla sponge cake with raspberry jam and vanilla buttercream filling or chocolate sponge cake with chocolate buttercream filling or lemon sponge cake with lemon curd buttercream. Or rich fruit cake.
There are obviously bakers who do more than that... but they're the choices that a) are mostly offered and b) mostly asked for.
We don't get SO MANY of the ingredients / mixes etc that you have easy access to.
IT'S NOT FAIR!!!!!!
IF I ever get to do the holiday that I dream of (ie I want to do Florida, Disney, etc with my husband and boys... before my boys are too old to really be wowed by the magic of it all) then I'm going to spend my time tracking down cake!!
Suzanne x
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