Wedding Cake: Cake Recipes
Delicious Options
Wedding cakes can now be made in any imaginable flavor. The tastes are as varied and exciting as the looks and designs. Thus a slice of it is sought after by the guests at a wedding party. The popular flavors are chocolate, carrot, orange, butter and lemon.
Classic White Cake
It is the most universal wedding cake. The ingredients required are cake flour, baking powder, butter or margarine, sugar, milk, pure vanilla extracts and egg whites.
Butter Cake
This cake has a perfect firm and moist texture required for a tiered design. It takes a richer taste when added with almond flavor. The ingredients are butter at room temperature, granulated sugar, eggs, flour, vanilla extract, almond flavor, baking powder, salt and milk.
Chocolate Fudge Groom’s Cake
It gives a different look and taste from the conventional type and is served as a groom’s cake. The ingredients are flour, baking powder and soda, salt, butter or margarine at room temperature, sugar, eggs, vanilla extract, milk and melted unsweetened chocolate.
Carrot Cake With White Chocolate Icing
One of the most widely used wedding cake. Ingredients are eggs, vegetable oil, vanilla extract, flour, sugar, baking soda, cinnamon, nuts, nutmegs, clove, salt, grated carrots, raisins and crushed and drained pineapple.
Orange Cheesecake
It has an extra-ordinary flavor specially made for the bride. The ingredients for the crust of this cake are granulated sugar, melted butter and graham cracker crumbs. The ingredients for the main part are softened cream cheese, granulated sugar, eggs, finely cut orange, whipping cream, vanilla extract, orange candy flavour and candy melt.
Trendy New Flavors
Nowadays the trend is to use assorted flavors. In place of traditional chocolate and vanilla cake, flavors like cardamom, ginger, pistachio and blood orange are gaining ground. According to whether the season of wedding is summer or winter, choices of popular flavors like almond cake with apricot cream, spice cake with caramel, or hazelnut with chocolate mousse are made. Different layers of the wedding cake may be given different flavors like chocolate with raspberries or vanilla with strawberry.