Groom's Cakes? Where Do You Come From?
Decorating By LittleLinda Updated 4 Sep 2006 , 11:09am by lionladydi
I'm in Michigan and no one does them here. My family is from the south though and most weddings down there have them. I love grooms cakes. YUM! It is a southern thing, but so is pinto beans, collard greans and cornbread and I can't get enough of those either.
I'm in northern Indiana and have NEVER seen a grooms cake at a wedding here. I'm doing two wedding cakes- one for a friend and the other for my step-daughter and I didn't even think to offer a groom's cake. Since these are my first paid wedding cakes, I'm nervous enough without having to do another cake. BUT anything with chocolate has my vote!!
Sorry forgot to tell you I am from Nebraska
I'm also from Nebraska and have seen many grooms cakes here and when I lived in IA. Maybe they started in the South and migrated to the Midwest
Hi tiggy2 Happy birthday this is weird my birthday is today also. I'm from Kearney. I have only seen a few grooms cakes. I think it is a cool idea. Let you have some fun with the wedding.
I was born and raised in Arkansas... basically spent the 1990s in Texas... moved back to Arkansas and now am finally back in Texas -- LOVE IT! I, too, did not realize that grooms cake was a "southern" thing and it kind of blows my mind that so many people have never seen one at a wedding or have even heard of them before coming to CC.
I don't know that this is the "tradition" but most weddings I've attended have the wedding cake on a table with punch and the grooms cake (usually chocolate) on it's own table with a coffee service.
I'm in PA and never heard of on either until I came here.
I went to a Wedding on Saturday, the first one in a few years, and lo and behold, there was a grooms cake shaped like a guitar. But they did not cut that.
They cut the wedding cake, put some out on plates, and put some in containers to go. I left at 9:00 and the grooms cake was still there.
I would have liked to try it because it was not made by the same person that made the Wedding cake, and I did not like the wedding cake at all. Way, way, way too moist. Wet is a better word. Almost reminded me of not being done. Even though it was.
Being a Jersey girl, had never heard of a groom's cake until this site, like other "northeners". Would you belive when my daughter gets married in November, she wants me to make one for my future son-in-law: camping scene! So besides being MOB and going crazy from that, will be making cake......maybe it will keep me calm! 
It is a southern thing, but so is pinto beans, collard greans and cornbread and I can't get enough of those either.
LOL. I live in Florida now (which is NOT a Southern state, by the way) but I grew up in Tennessee and all of my friends practically live at my house for dinner. I've converted them to the ways of pinto beans and cornbread!
You can't forget about poke salad and wilted lettuce either, but maybe those are just weird Tennessee traditions that other people think I'm crazy for eating..??
I have lived in both NY and PA, and I never saw a groom's cake until the armadillo in the film, Steel Magnolias. I know that groom's cakes are a highly-prized tradition in the south, and that they are steadily growing in popularity throughout the US and the world, but I have yet to see one at a wedding reception I have attended since the release of that movie.
Theresa
For crying out loud. Didn't anyone watch Steel Magnolias? How could anyone not remember Wheezer cutting the grooms cake which was a red velvet armadillo.
Diane
That is where I first learned of a grooms cake as well! I have never seen one at a wedding before though, I am from Michigan
I was born and spent the first 30 years of my life in Iowa and Indiana-nobody EVER had a grooms cake. Some of my family lives in Texas and when they had "TWO" cakes at the wedding, we just thought they were being a little showy. That was several years ago and I now live in the south. There isn't a wedding around without one.
BTW-Steel Magnolias is one of my favorite weddings of all times-I loved the bleeding armadillo cake-"Nothing like a good piece of..." HAHA
BTW-Steel Magnolias is one of my favorite weddings of all times-I loved the bleeding armadillo cake-"Nothing like a good piece of..." HAHA
One of my favorite's also. Cry my eyes out every time I watch it. Shirley McClaine (Wheezer) was a hoot throughout the movie but especially cutting that groom's cake.
Isn't it funny how different parts of the world and even different parts of the US have such different traditions and different types of cooking. Guess that is what makes life more interesting. 
Diane
LOL. I live in Florida now (which is NOT a Southern state, by the way)
You just haven't been to the right parts of Florida! :wink Florida is a very transient state so you almost never meet someone that is actually from here! My dh's grandma makes the best collards you've ever had-mmm, collard greens.....
I was reading something the other day that the big name bakeries in NYC are starting to catch on to the grooms cake tradition and offer them.
I've never seen Steel Magnolias. now I want to see it just to see what you guys are talking about! It was an armadillo cake that "bled" when they cut it? (Sometimes I think about that when seeing some of the animal shaped cakes and pregnant belly cakes on here. People have posted that it feels funny to cut them. I guess it's the blood/guts expectation.)
I never heard of it except once on another message board (not cake related) and the bride and groom were both from TX. I just thought it was a nice thing, not an actual tradition. Once I came here and saw it more and more often realized it must be a southern thing because I'm from up north and never heard of it. I have lived in GA and now I'm in TX for a bit longer (dh is military) but never attended a wedding in either state so haven't seen one except for pictures. I think it's a nice tradition, chocolate is always good 
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I'm from KY and I have never been to a wedding without a grooms cake. I always thought that it was something that was common everywhere.
I've never seen Steel Magnolias. now I want to see it just to see what you guys are talking about! It was an armadillo cake that "bled" when they cut it? (Sometimes I think about that when seeing some of the animal shaped cakes and pregnant belly cakes on here. People have posted that it feels funny to cut them. I guess it's the blood/guts expectation.)
First step is buying a box of tissues before renting the movie.
As for animal and people cakes.......my son in law wouldn't even eat any of my spaghetti cake. Said it just looked too much like spaghetti to taste like cake. I can well imagine how he would be with an armadillo cake.
If you want to see a really "gross" cake try here:
http://www.theyrecoming.com/extras/pumpkinfest03/ It is by far the worst I have ever seen...........................
Diane
I've never seen Steel Magnolias. now I want to see it just to see what you guys are talking about! It was an armadillo cake that "bled" when they cut it? (Sometimes I think about that when seeing some of the animal shaped cakes and pregnant belly cakes on here. People have posted that it feels funny to cut them. I guess it's the blood/guts expectation.)
First step is buying a box of tissues before renting the movie.
As for animal and people cakes.......my son in law wouldn't even eat any of my spaghetti cake. Said it just looked too much like spaghetti to taste like cake. I can well imagine how he would be with an armadillo cake.
If you want to see a really "gross" cake try here:
http://www.theyrecoming.com/extras/pumpkinfest03/ It is by far the worst I have ever seen...........................
Diane
I have seen that before... and gross it is.... can you imagine eating it??? UGH!!!!!!!!!!! I couldn't get it past looking at it......
It was an armadillo cake that "bled" when they cut it? (
It doens't actually bleed-thank goodness! They just laugh about the the fact that it's red velvet cake and people are going to "hack into it" to serve. It's a great movie but I always have to turn off about 10 mins of it (and girls you know what part I'm talking about and then I can turn it back on. That way I don't sob! 
My husband likes cigars and the lady that did our cake did such an incredible job on his cigar groom's cake. She even made the band from his fav cigar.
Anybody ever have a groom's cake made...and then forget about it? I had a Chief's groom's cake made for my hubby but yet I didnt want it on the "pretty" cake table...then we promptly forgot about it....Froze the whole darn cake and got it out a couple of weeks later for a party (still tasted yummy).
I am in Texas; I have never been to a wedding without a grooms cake. I never knew that it wasn't just as common as a wedding cake until I came here either. I was surprised; I thought it was just like the wedding cake; part of the wedding. But recently on Oprah they were talking about them and they said that it is becoming ever more popular in other places and not just in the south.
Don't believe these myths though; I have never ever in my life seen or heard of anyone sleeping with a piece of cake at all! That is crazy!
In fact I am making my cousins wedding and grooms cake this month. Yes they are mostly chocolate and most of the time about the grooms love or passion. Sometimes they are like the fish cakes on this site; and sometimes they are just like the chocolate with the choco strawberries. I am making a chocolate with chocolate covered strawberries.
Who knew that things could be so different in one country! But think of the hot dog. Here it is plain or with chili and cheese; sometimes with onions and mustard; depending on the persons taste. And when I see one with saurkraut (however it is spelled; probably the only thing I can't spell!); I think it is the most disgusting thing I have ever seen and don't understand how it is a normal thing somewhere! So that shows how different we all are when you look at how we all eat our hotdogs!
I am in PA and have never been to a wedding with a groom's cake. I have a question for you all. Around here it is traditional that in addition to the wedding cake we have dozens of all kind of cookies. I thought that every one did this but was told recently that it was only in our part of the country. Is that true?
I've never heard of the cookies either.
Neat idea too though. But yes the groom's cake is always on a seperate table decorated for the groom coordinating the wedding too of course!
see my wedding was just too "no fuss" I let my Mom do a pretty cake table..I guess none of us thought about a groom's cake table! We even had barbeque for goodness sake!
I have only been to 1 wedding where there were cookies and they were Italian and thus had Italian cookies.
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