Not traditional fruit wedding cake ideas

[Lutricia007]

I would love cheesecake / cinnamon bun cake as wedding cake ? Don’t like traditional fruit cake at all. Want something different.
Do you know any good bakeries to contact ? I am based in Weybridge

Bachmanns?

Does anyone have fruit cake anymore other than a small top tier to keep the 'oldies' happy?

Any wedding I have been at in past nearly 20 yrs has had mainly varying flavours of sponge cake, typically lemon/coffee/victoria/carrot even.

That said if you want something entirely different then it's important to be sure how it is to be served, is wedding cake served as dessert where you are or is it served after the dessert like the small slivers of fruit cake used to be or is it served later at night at a buffet? This should guide what alternative you go for as not all suit all servings methods. Love a cinnamon bun myself but wouldn't want one as dessert for example.

If you want something that isn’t “cake” in the traditional sense, you need to find someone who makes a cracking cheesecake or cinnamon bun, and ask if they can scale it up. A normal bakery or even a wedding cake baker may make a shite cheesecake.

Very few people have a traditional fruit cake now. We got married 15 years ago and it was no longer the done thing then. Ours was a sponge cake with lime and coconut.

I know that lemon and elderflower had a moment but it is delicious.

We did! 13 years ago. I love fruit cake. Always a bit disappointed with a wedding cake that isn't a fruit cake.

Apparently it's traditional to keep the top tier and eat it at your first child's baptism. We took our top tier on our honeymoon and polished it off in the week.

We got married over 20 years ago and had 3 different chocolate cakes, dark white and milk. They were on a stand with three arms if that makes sense not piled on eachother.
Not a fan of fruit cake so saw no reason to have it

I had fruitcake because I love it and made it myself (not too heavy, golden) but only single tear then made multiple other cakes to make a cake buffet (including vegan, gf, dairy free etc)

I had a 3 tier chocolate cake from marks and Spencer. It was covered in white chocolate icing with white chocolate flowers. It was absolutely delicious

I had a cake made of cheeses and it was absolutely amazing (if I do say so!) 3 different layers of different cakes and decorated with beautiful fruits and chutneys and crackers on the side.

I once saw a pile of krispy crème doughnuts tired into a wedding cake, was great and they were demolished also loads cheaper than a made wedding cake

Those were the stands invented to hold non fruit cakes like sponges or fondant covered cake that weren't strong enough to stand on pillars the way royal iced fruit cakes were, then dowelling systems were invented! They usually were S or swan shaped stands, there were also E shaped ones and a few more for various shapes including hearts.

Re the tradition of keeping top tier for first christening, this is true of course but comes from an era where the first child arrived within the first year if not sooner of the wedding date!

Love the idea of that

I suppose I just to use my imagination a bit if don’t want typical Wedding cake as you mentioned there are options

Cheese cake would be my first choice with out a doubt

We got married 11 years ago and had a stack of cheese instead as neither were very keen on having much cake. We had a 1940s church fete style reception with 300ish attend so rather than a formal sit down meal did more of a ploughman's with the cheese as the main feature. Go with whatever will make you smile and be enjoyed. The internet/pintrest/Instagram will be full of alternative ideas

Cake of cheese or Cheesecake?
Took DD to a wedding aged around 7/8 and she was told there was "cheescake"
She went for a look and came back and said "Mum, its not Cheescake, its a CAKE OF CHEESE". She couldn't get her head around it at all.