Today is all about cake flavors! Your wedding cake should be a reflection of the flavors that bring YOU and your Soon-to-Be-Spouse joy!!
White cake is traditional, classic, and timeless. It’s extremely versatile. (I highly recommend White Velvet if this is your jam). Often when people think about this classic wedding cake flavor, it is a white vanilla cake and will have a little bit of almond extract as well.
However, maybe you aren’t a vanilla, classic, or traditional cake lover… If this is you, and you are hesitating… stop hesitating. Get that chocolate cake*! Maybe you or your person LOVES sprinkles and you want a sprinkle surprise when the cake is cut! (The sprinkles can even be in your wedding colors!!!)
Have your wedding YOUR way!
I adore tradition and classics, but choose the cake YOU want! You can also have the classic exterior, with surprise flavors! (Coconut buttercream, with a Lime Citrus cake) (Peppermint Buttercream with a Chocolate Cake). Or, Go wild and infuse your cake with color inside and out! (My wedding cupcakes were zebra striped marble!)
Struggling to choose a flavor? Do a tasting! Or ask for recommendations. Create a variation on a theme. Having a tropical honeymoon, pull in those flavors into your cake!
B.Y.O.C. (Build Your Own Cake (or Cupcakes))
One of my favorite things to do is craft custom cake flavors and combinations. One of my favorite Wedding Cakes was for a Halloween Wedding. The couple discussed flavors they like (Citrus, Vanilla, Raspberry, etc.) but they didn’t seem to fit the season (their thoughts).
So, when I did their cake tasting, I made my sea salt caramel. Being a Mid-Western girl, when I think Autumn. I think Caramel Apples. This was their overwhelming winner. White Velvet Cake, Salted Caramel Buttercream, and Sea Salt Caramel Filling and Drip.
My husband and I met in Germany. So we had a German Chocolate Cake**, additionally, I love chocolate cake, and German Chocolate Cake was my Great Grams’ favorite cake. **German Chocolate Cake isn’t German. It is named after the brand of chocolate (German’s Chocolate). My husband isn’t a cake lover, so he didn’t really care about the cake flavor. (He chose the Groom’s Cake alternative). I also baked cupcakes to accompany the cake.
