Homemade Cake

A friend of ours is a baker and asked if we would allow her to make our cake as a wedding gift. I emphatically and delightfully accepted

My mom is making our cake. she does do really good cakes and i wanted her to be distracted and do something to be a part of it. Shell want to make it fancy and put her effort into it so i was ok letting her do it. Its a box cake but im not that into the cake to be honest. i know itll taste good (Spice cake) and itll be a naked cake (so bare minimum of cream cheese icing) and decorated with sunflowers. Not too fancy and luckily wont cost us anything.

If you dont are about the cake so much being really fancy. GO FOR HOMEMADE. you're only going to eat it anyway.

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Ok perfect! Thanks so much for your input, we feel totally the same!! Nice to feel on the same page as someone ahah. Good luck on your cake! Love to see how it turns out if you take photos

I think this is a great idea! You can make it the day before and put someone in charge of transporting it to the reception.

My sister is doing ours. I am so excited. Will look something like this one.

My friend used to work at a bakery making wedding cakes so she is doing ours as our gift from her and I am so excited. We have given her control over the design so we won’t know what it looks like until the day of!

View quoted message I’ve never thought of Sobeys for a wedding cake/ cupcakes. That’s brilliant.

My sister and I are baking are my cake we are doing a small cake for cutting and the rest cupcakes. Its helping us stay in the budget! If you could find someone to be responsible of transferring it you could do it.

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I completely agree it's your special day and you should be able to make your own cake!

View quoted message I am planning on doing just a little one to two tier I have some time to practice. I plan on cutting it but it’s more or less for photos. I just am trying to avoid the cutting fee that comes with cutting the cake. It’s hard I understand what everyone is saying that I’m going to be so busy I’m not gonna want to deal with the cake.

But it for us this is something that we both feel strongly about. To spend that money on a cake that only we are cutting and having a piece is just ridiculous.

I'm making my own cake just for the cake cutting and also doing cup cakes for everyone.

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That was our main concern as well! We were worried that baking and transporting our cake would cause unnecessary stress. We will probably go with a baker at this point!

We were going to do this but we figured we would have so much to do and would not want to worry about one more thing!

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In making your own cake, are you just doing one tier? My fiancé and I are not big cake people either and are looking into either buying one tier to cut, or making it ourselves. Are you guys even eating it, or just for photos?

Our in laws feel the same about us doing things in a non traditional way, ugh! ahah

Thank you, everyone, for the input!

My parents when they got married had the traditional wedding cake which was made by a family member. Fruit cake!! We're not doing this . We're trying to find someone to do a smaller cake for cutting 2 tier so we can keep one for our 1st anniversary. Then I'm thinking my family has a tradition of these things they call raquettes or nothings so good. Those will be homemade.

View quoted message Interesting idea. Didn't even think of this for cupcakes.

Im having my cousin make ours. ... Just make youtube your best friend, it's a great outlet to learn things!!

Making your cake would be great and customizing to whatvypu want to put on as decor. Youtube is the answer to see what is needed and how to make it.

We are having my future mother in law do ours.

We have a family make who is a baker on the side and does amazing cakes so ours, she offered to do it for free to help us save money.

I would suggest having a small cake for you to cut. Then buy sheet cakes to slice and serve. I used to work in a bakery and this was the cheapest option. Plus, the size of slice that is recommended for wedding cakes is super small. An 8' round cake we said served 8-10. For a wedding, we would say the same size would serve 20. If you are having other desserts, that's fine, but if cake is the main dessert, people will want a regular size piece.

I think it depends on the amount of people going. Baking for 50 people is more do-able then baking cake for 150 people.

Just an idea that me and my fiance are doing to save costs. I contacted Sobeys grocery store bakery and asked them about cupcakes (not sure if your into that idea, but I'll share my idea in case you are). So we're going to do cupcakes instead, and a small cake for us to cut.

I was quoted for 80 cupcakes $60. These are the nice big whipped icing that doesn't taste like garbage haha. They can even put pretty edible pearls on them for you! Gonna save us a fortune and sobeys cake is always moist and amazing.

I am a baker, and personally I would suggest not to make it yourself. The problem is that cake needs to be made fresh and the days leading right up to the wedding will be pretty busy for you two, so doing it yourself may be a big endeavour.

Im getting married spring 2019 and I have decided that I am going to have someone make a simple 3 tier cake for me but I will make the edible flowers, because I can do that a month ahead.

maybe you want to invest in something simple and spruce it up yourself?

I am planning on making my own cake but it will not be a big one. We are planning on doing cookies or something along those lines for the guests to eat. My fiancé and I aren’t big cake people so this was an easy alternative for us.

I have been getting a lot of resistance from my mother in law. But like we tell her it’s our wedding and we will do what we want.