Something I Seen This Past Weekend
Decorating By daltonam Updated 3 Nov 2006 , 10:01pm by RisqueBusiness
okay so my DH's nephew got married & you know us cakers--we've got to check the wedding cake out--so i did & it was lovely, not a thing wrong with it--beautiful. so DD & i go outside & later we come back in the see if the cakes been cut (& yes i'm a horriblE aunt, i didn't wait around to watch them cut it, etc etc) okay so the cakes cut & we get a piece, yum it's pound cake BUT IT HAS NO, NONE, NADA, FILLING, ICING NOTHING INSIDE IT--well color me confused, because i've nevered seen this before
SO THE QUESTION IS-----
HAS ANYONE ELSE????? GUYS, NO JOKE, JUST THE OUTSIDE WAS ICED.
I never filled my cakes before attending my Wilton decorating class and found out that was the "norm." I do all of them now because I think it is better...but never did before and never even knew this was "supposed" to be done. 
WOW! For a large wedding cake? That seems so weird.... I haven't been to too many weddings though so I'm not really sure but I just think that's TOO much cake and not enough frosting.... I LOVE frosting... plus it keeps the cake moist and gives it more flavor.... in my opinion..... so I think that's weird too!
I agree for a wedding cake it seems unusual, but it could be the request of the bride maybe? I myself don't care for frosting and actually turn my piece of cake upside down to eat it so the frosting stays on the plate and I get the cake only. This is why I never did a filling before (besides the fact of not knowing it was "norm"). Maybe that was the deal...the bride didn't want a lot of frosting? 
daltonam,
I don't usually fill my scratch pound cakes - just a dusting of powdered sugar.
However, this was a WEDDING cake!!!!
But, then again, do you think it could have been the bride and groom's choice not to have filling.
I would think it was unusual. But thinking back, I had pound cake for my wedding reception and I can't remember if it was filled or not.... which tends to make me think it wasn't.
Trends are always evolving - I had a cake topper (which at the time was just average) but now seems so old-fashioned and just awful.
Would be interesting to hear what the more experienced or older baker/decorators have to say.
okay so my DH's nephew got married & you know us cakers--we've got to check the wedding cake out--so i did & it was lovely, not a thing wrong with it--beautiful. so DD & i go outside & later we come back in the see if the cakes been cut (& yes i'm a horriblE aunt, i didn't wait around to watch them cut it, etc etc) okay so the cakes cut & we get a piece, yum it's pound cake BUT IT HAS NO, NONE, NADA, FILLING, ICING NOTHING INSIDE IT--well color me confused, because i've nevered seen this before
SO THE QUESTION IS-----
HAS ANYONE ELSE????? GUYS, NO JOKE, JUST THE OUTSIDE WAS ICED.
I sure hope that they had lots of drinks available. I have never heard of this before and have recently attended 4 weddings. As some have suggested before maybe the b & g requested it that way. 
Tara
Was the cake 2 x 2 inch cakes, iced over with nothing to hold them together or was it a 3 - 4 inch high cake?
Here in Australia a lot of the cakes for weddings are not filled. The 2 inch pans that you guys use all the time are very uncommon here, and we use 3 and 4 inch pans. Lots of weddings have mudcakes which are very very rich, so do not really require anything inside. I prefer to fill them with something because it makes them look more interesting, but there are lots of bride's out there (in Australia) that dont want any fillings at all, and when you suggest it, some say no, some are suprised that it can be done, strange eh?
Nati : ) (my cakes for my family are ALWAYS filled with something : )
Just two cakes slapped together? With no icing or filling to act as "glue" to hold them together??? I've never seen that before. Oh I hope it's not a new trend!
exactly, nothing holding it together---BUT now that i think about it, the grooms cake had choc frosting in between the layers--heck i guess i gonna have to call my SIL groom's mom (& i didn't want to do that--she'll take it as i thought the cake wasn't good, her dd told my mine was better 
haha)
nati--if i remember correctly it was 3in layers (2 of them each cake) but pound cake isn't sweet & rich to me like choc or lemon or something)
maywest--no liquor syrup on this cake, for that matter i'm betting the cake wasn't misted with any syrup-
the ones one describe, could i get one with a double shot
I don't fill my cakes if they are round. I use the 3 inch pans and only tort and fill them if requested. To me this seemed normal. Most of my brides request as little filling as possible in their cakes and actually seem thrilled when they don't have to have it.
but this one didn't even have icing in between the layers--did you not ice yours either?
traditionally pound cake is not a cake you fill. The crumb and mead of the cake is dense enough to keep it together and Americans put way too much filling between their cakes anyway..
That's why we are always worried that our cakes will slide.
When I learned to do my fondant cakes, we were taught to make them without filling so they didn't sink or slide.
Also...to put just a scraping of filling between the layers for an extra bang. I've seen cakes that have like an INCH of filling between the layers...the filling is as thick as the cake slices....
That's nice for a filling that sets up like Whipped Ganache or fudge icing but it makes the cake to sickly sweet for my taste!
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