6 unique wedding cake alternatives
6 Unique Wedding Cake Alternatives
The classic wedding cake has always been the traditional and seemingly preferred treat for a couple’s special day. However, there are several alternatives to the traditional wedding cake for couples to explore!
Wedding cakes are fun, delicious, and a decorative aspect of the wedding day, and everyone always enjoys a nice slice of delicious cake! The formal cake cutting represents the couple's first task completed together.
However in recent years couples have moved away from this tradition and often replaced it with something that more represents themselves as a couple or their personal love story. Weddings are a time to get creative and let your personalities shine through, and one way to do this is through a fun cake alternative!
Croquembouche
This traditional French dessert highlights extravagant patterns and exquisite detail! This remarkable treat has been recreated and modified into unthinkable designs and sculptures that will leave every guest impressed. Crafted with choux puff pastry, luxurious French dessert is sure to please!
Millefoglie
Looking for an eccentric dish that is sure to blow away your guests? Try the Millefoglie! This Italian dessert is a combination of light puff pastry cakes and a mouthwatering pastry cream showered with flavorful fresh fruit and light powdered sugar! Stacked on top of each other, these pastry cakes and layers of pastry cream are the way to go!
Kransekake
Interested in a traditional Scandinavian sweet? Then the Kransekake (which translates to wreath cake) is the way to go! This dessert consists of almond cookies stacked together with royal icing! This tasty treat leaves crowds intrigued and speechless with its unique ensemble and flavor! The décor of the Kransekake is of course up to you, make it your own and choose several different designs that can make your dessert even more lively!
Parfaits
Want a sweet and playful treat that is sure to keep you on your feet? Prepare yourself parfaits! These tasty treats are sure to be a party favorite for you and your guests! With organized layers of cake, frosting, and fresh berries, this dessert will be a crowd pleaser! With your choice of cake and frosting, these sweets can display a colorful masterpiece or relate to a theme. This is a sweet that definitely allows you to get creative!
Mini Pies
These mouthwatering mini pies will leave you wanting seconds, thirds, and even fourths! Change things up with these delightful and delectable mini pies! With these mini pies, you can choose to have a wide selection of flavors! Lemon, strawberry, apple, blueberry, pecan, lime, the options are limitless! Providing a variety of flavors for your guests is sure to make everyone’s taste buds dance with joy.
Donuts
As a wedding trend, donuts & donut walls are here to stay! The flavor choices are endless, from a simple glazed donut, to funfetti filled donuts, to a maple bacon masterpieces, donuts are a yummy treats that are sure to please guests, young and old. Still want a traditional wedding cake, but love donuts? Consider giving donuts as your favor, you guests will leave your wedding with a sweet taste in their mouth (and sticky fingers!)
The classic wedding cake has been a constant in weddings throughout the years, why not change things up! The traditional wedding cake still displays a flavorful masterpiece for many couples, but there are many other treats you can celebrate with! The variety of desserts you could display at your wedding are countless! Your special day is a celebration of you and your special someone, and the creativity does have to stop with dessert! The possibilities are endless; cupcakes, a rainbow tower of macarons, a breakfast waffle cake, a donut wall, an ice cream bar whatever you choose, get creative and have fun
xox LJE