The wedding is over, the reception is done. All the guests have gone home with their bags of your wedding cake to put under their pillows for sweet dreams of their own true love. As you are leaving, the caterer comes rushing over, and hands you a cake box. You peek inside, and there you find the top tier of your wedding cake.

The tradition is that you take the top of your wedding cake home with you, and you store it in your freezer until your one year anniversary, when you pull it out, thaw it, and enjoy it as part of your first anniversary dinner. But do you want to eat cake that’s a year old? What will it taste like? Is it even safe?

Let’s start with the fact that in recent memory, there have been no reported deaths by year old wedding cake. While it does push the limit of what an acceptable period of time to save frozen food is, if you get the cake home, wrap it right away both in plastic and foil, then store in a freezer bag, you’ll be fine.

The best results are going to be with pound cake. It’s a firm, dense cake that does well in the freezer. The kinds of cake that fare the worst are cakes with some kind of filling. Italian cream cake, for example, with its luscious layers of decadent filling, is going to thaw out on the mushy side and won’t taste very good.

The best thing to do with the top tier of wedding cake is to eat it as soon as you can. If you are traveling somewhere the night of your wedding, take it with you, and have your own private celebration when you arrive at your hotel. Bring a bottle of champagne with you, or order some from room service, and toast each other.

You could give the cake to your parents to take home and freeze until you come back from your honeymoon. Cream cakes or filled cakes still won’t thaw well, but you’ll do better taste wise with other types of cakes a week after the wedding than you would a year after the wedding.

What to do on your first anniversary? Go back to the bakery where your cake was made and ask them to create a top tier replica for you. The romance of the celebration will be just as sweet, but it will be much fresher to boot!

  Your wedding cake is the shining star of the food served at your wedding reception. It's true, everyone knows it; the wedding cake, no matter how large or small, has been a tradition for many years. The history of the wedding cake and its traditional tiers dates back to medieval times. Back then, each guest to the wedding would bring a small cake to the ceremony. The cakes would then be placed on tables in layers, or in a large stack. According to tradition, the bride and groom would then separate; one on each side of the table, and then try to kiss over the stacks. It was considered good luck, if the bridge and groom were able to kiss over the stack or layers of cakes. This tradition has survived the ages, and eventually, the stacks of cakes emerged as one single, tiered wedding cake. Other, funnier traditions, were the ancient Roman practice of actually dropping the cake on the head of the bride. Don't worry, you don't have to have a cake dropped on your head if that's not your thing!

Flavors , We have some awesome Hawaiian flavors
Guava cream with pink vanilla chiffon
Coconut with vanilla chiffon
Passion Fruit Mandarine
and our Kona Coffee light chocolate chiffon.
 

Now most of the cakes are two teired so alot of couples opt to have one of the tiers a Hawaiian flavor to break the routine of
the typical standards. There is no need to feel constrained by the usual choices of chocolate, or vanilla. Not when there's so much more out there! Orange, and lemon are very popular flavors in the spring and summer. Other flavors, such as butterscotch, or toffee are also delightful. Flavors can be combined as well, such as a vanilla and cherry swirl, or chocolate cherry; the possibilities are only limited by your imagination. The trick is finding the right bakery, willing to bring the wedding cake of your dreams into existence. Imagine the delight of your guests as they delve in the first bite of a cream cheese vanilla and cherry swirl masterpiece, made specifically for your wedding event.

Designs

There are several different designs for your wedding cake that can be used. Whether you want an enormous cake for over a hundred guests, or a beautiful, but modest creation for your family and friends. Some specialty bakeries make modern cakes that can incorporate fantastic designs, made from a special moldable but edible type of icing. Others instead prefer to have a large tiered platform, made of clear plastic or glass that holds and displays hundreds of beautifully made little cupcakes. These are decorated in the preferred colors and theme of the wedding, so that the guests can just pluck one of the tray.

Centerpieces

The centerpiece is the little added decoration at the top of a wedding cake. It's the crowning gesture of elegance in the cake. There are probably millions of different designs that are available, though some people sometimes forego the optional little decoration. Some traditional designs are little figurines of the bride and groom, side by side on top of the cake. Others, are a little floral decoration, whether real, or made from spun sugar, or icing. Another popular design for the centerpiece is a heart, woven together from various different materials, such as silk, silver, cloth, or even icing. Whatever you decide to use for your centerpiece, just remember to keep in theme with your wedding.

         
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plumeria cake design
 

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