1St Wedding Cake - What Flavours & Other Questions
Decorating By Joy2501 Updated 2 Aug 2007 , 6:53pm by HBcakes
I have just had an enquiry for my first wedding cake!! What are common flavours for wedding cakes? It is a small cake - in fact the bride wants the one from the Wilton Class 3 book - 2 tier with roses. I was thinking of "charging" (not legal, so I only accept gifts!) $100.00 for this cake. I hate asking for money - do you all think this is reasonable? She is only expecting 30 guests. Oh, and she wants the roses in white, tipped with gold, so I was thinking of doing the leaves gold as well. I guess I would use luster dust?
Thanks for your help.
I find that it depends on the bride and groom. My first wedding cake was a white cake with raspberry filling and lemon curd filling. My current one has one tier in ginger cake and the other three tiers in chocolate cake with butterscotch flavored buttercream. White cakes will make your filling flavors stand out. I would suggest talking to the bride and asking if they have any ideas on flavors that they might like. That would give you a place to start.
I've never made a wedding cake before so I'm not too helpful with flavor suggestions.
Perhaps go to a book store and look for cake recipe books. I'm sure there are some exotic ones out there.
The gold tipped roses sound really pretty. If you are using buttercream roses you have to be very careful with the luster dust. It works better with fondant or gumpaste. Good luck with your cake 
I think you are too cheap for gumpaste roses on that cake. If she went to a shop she'd probably pay closer to $250-$350 for that cake.
I agree on the simple taste. Chocolate ganache, rasp or apricot is popular in FL for fillings w/ white cake.
Thanks - I am going to do gumpaste roses. Do I brush the on dry, or mix it with vanilla or alcohol?
Joy I used lemon juice and it worked better than the vodka did. Of course it was my first time but that was my experience.
Just made my first wedding cake too! Wedding was July 28th. Bride requested marble cake, I picked buttercream raspberry cheesecake filling.
Didn't charge, for a friend as their wedding gift. However, I was married 3 years ago and ordered the same kind of cake your bride wants from Wal-mart. It was 80$.
Hope the info helps.
Post a pic when your done. Please
My two most popular flavors are chocolate w/raspberry filling and carrot with cream cheese filling...........you can dust the luster on dry, or for a deeper sheen, mix with lemon/vanilla extract or vodka. Make sure your BC is crusted over really well.........I did my most recent cake in luster dust on BC and it turned out great.
I always start on the flavors by asking if they have anything in mind, and then list what I can do, or what's popular. White is still the most popular thing around here, with choc or strawberry filling....guess I'm in a very creative place! Don't know what advice to give you on the price cause I haven't done gumpaste yet.... good luck!!
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