to want a wedding cake made from cheese

[Jasonthunderpants]

We are getting married in Aug and I would like a wedding cake made from cheese(I love the stuff)

Whats the problem? A lot of people dont like wedding cake anyway

Helloooooooo

Yes, we had a cheese cake thus:

Single Gloucester
Double Gloucester
Mature cheddar
Soft cheese
Blue cheese

We then served this as the evening buffet with breads/biscuits/chutney/grapes etc. Someone has mentioned it was very expensive, but ours wasn't as we sourced it direct from the cheesemaker. We also had loads left and gave it away to our neighbours and froze a load (of the hard cheeses)

In fact, i am doing another one for the later part of the evening after a BBQ for DH's birthday in a couple of weeks. Om nom

I nearly did this but decided that I'd go for the big cake plus a really fantastic cheeseboard (greedy like that!)

Have a couple of recommendations of where to get really good ones put together

www.nealsyarddairy.co.uk

or

www.trethowansdairy.co.uk/Trethowans_Dairy_Shop /WEDDING_CAKES.html

If it includes hard/crumbly cheeses like cheshire, caerphilly, lancashire these all go well with plain fruit cake (no marzipan or icing) so you could always add one of those in to keep the peace.

have what you like! i think a chesse cake would be lovely - i would have to have a 'normal' cake too though.

as to those who say they hate wedding cake....are you thinking of wedding cake as being fruit cake? when we got married i made the cake which was three tiers - fruit, chocolate biscuit cake and madeira cake. surely you can't not like ALL of those!

We had a cheese cake at our wedding. I even made one of the cheeses because we'd been on a cheese making course a few months before and the lady who ran the course supplied the rest of the cheese. It was great because it did us for supper with some bread, oatcakes, a big ham and port. Who has room for cake at that time of night anyway! MIL was horrified and so baked us a cake anyway which I was slightly annoyed about and mainly was not eaten.

We had both! The cheese cake was the centre piece for the evening buffet, served with lots of biscuits and chutneys. The hotel were really good and let us provide our own. Then we served the 'proper cake' (chocolate and fruit tiers) as dessert.

We sourced the cheeses from a local deli and borrowed a cake stand from a friend. A lot cheaper, plus we couldn't find many local suppliers.

One thing i would say is get a stand with seperate tiers, as opposed to stacking your cheeses, that way its not difficult for people to cut at.

lovely idea - bit expensive though!

it's becoming really quite fashionable.

make sure you have some pudding or small cakes too, i know quite a few people who "need" a sweet thing too.

What a fantastic idea. Would love to do this for DH's birthday - he hates cake,loves cheese. What cheeses would you suggest, to serve about 30 people, with leftovers?

Check out cheesenotcake.com
or highwealddairy.co.uk

they were featured in a article on page 42 of the summer issue Chichester Magazine - the magazine for the diocese of chichester.

YANBU Mine was Raspberry mouse it was delicious

I popped into Waitrose yesterday and the cheese counter ladies helped me out, and even packed the cheeses into pink cake boxes from the patisserie counter, to deter DH from peeping.

I bought a wheel of blue Jervaulx Abbey, a whole Carrigaline in its green wax, a camembert and a goats cheese for the top. I'll dress it with grapes and candles.

really wish we had done this, saw it in a mag two years ago.

Go for it.

We didnt have the cheese wedding cake but we had this

All the guests came on the bus with the Bride(small wedding)
Me and the best man stood outside an empty church waiting not only for the bride ,but all the guests,then this bus came round the corner,it was so funny

You MUST do this! It is a fab idea. It's a shame that the decorations have to be done by someone in your party, on the day (they're so ephemeral that they couldn't be done earlier) but it's just leaves and flowers. You could have a small fruitcake cut into squares for the cake-lovers and those who like fruitcake with their cheese.

It's almost worth getting married again just to have a wedding cake made of cheese!

Hope you had a good day Jason, and congratulations!

I think waitrose or m and s do a cheese wedding cake. Try the web sites.
Got to be better than shitty dried out fruit cake...

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...and there was me getting all excited about cheese.

I'm sure it's been mentioned, but my Yorkshire relatives are great believers in cheese and fruit cake.

My cake was totally traditional cake, but an unusual shape. Remember I'm an exastronomy student.

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