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Topic Title: groom's cake????? HELP!!
Created On Tue Jun 21, 2005 3:15 PM
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mharpole



Groom's cakes do not always have to be chocolate with chocolate icing. I have made red velvet, carrot w/cream cheese icing and strawberry as well as chocolate. I made a cake in the shape of a guitar, one with ducks on it and for one bride, a sheet cake with another cake shaped to like a glow worm on top. They also do not have to be sheet cakes, I made a 12in. round with Winnie the Pooh in a tux on top with bees on the sides. Groom's cakes are usually decorated in something the groom enjoys. Afterall, it is his cake. My husbands groom's cake had a veterinary symbol on it because he is a vet. Just have some fun with it.
 
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mharpole



Contact me at mharpole@apex.net and I will be happy to send you a picture of the cake and instructions via e-mail.
 
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roesweet



What a great idea! It's a really beautiful cake. Thanks a bunch!
 
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roesweet



Any ideas for a groom's cake? Also, what is a groom's cake and what is the tradition behind it?
 
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KAP59



Groom's cake is always chocolate cake with chocolate frosting. The decorations can be anything from things that he has interest in such as golfing, fishing etc. or in one of my Wilton Cake books they show a groom's cake with a cinderella carriage and white horses and a groomsmen. I have also seen humerous ones, it all depends on the bride and groom's likes and dislikes and if they have a good sense of humor. Have fun with it. As to why the groom's cake, I'm not sure as the meaning of it, but they have been around for years.
 
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claudiam



I see that somebody has made a guitar shaped cake, any instructions on how to do that? My fiancee is a jazz player and we are getting married, it would make a perfect groom's cake.
 
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Dawn E.



I see a groom's cake as serving two purposes. One, as a cheaper alternative to more tiers, in order to have more servings available. Secondly, as the expressive cake for the bride and groom. It is tradition for the wedding cake to be big and pretty with the colors of the wedding. The groom's cake is a chance to personalize the cake table. At the last wedding I did, the best man's birthday was the same day. So, the groom's cake was actually his birthday cake. They took advantage of celebrating two very special days.
 
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Diedre, Thanks!! Kimberly



This might be an idea you could use. It comes out of the Wilton 2000, book. You can pick it up, at Wal-Mart. The cake pan to use is the puffed heart cake pan #2105-172, for $8.99. Cover with white fondant or white icing, or possibly buttercream icing. Place pearl size icing dots or imitation pearls around the sides of the bottom of the heart. On the top of the left corner, make a lacy type of bow, you might want to make it small though, on the streamer, that comes off of the bow, make them so they should hang off of the tip of the heart. Then place small imitation gold rings, at the bottom of the tips. The rings can also be ordered out of the same book. I honestly don't know if I've explained this, so that you would understand, for a better idea look in the Wiltion Millnium 2000, book. Hope I helped in some way, and good luck!! Kimberly
 
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E. Brasseale



Grooms cakes that I have seen have been chocolate with chocolate frosting. They usually have a sports theme, or a theme like hunting or something the groom is interested in. In Steel Magnolias, the groom's cake was a red velvet cake in the shape of an armadillo, therefore looked like a bleeding armadillo when cut and served--perhaps you want to do that!! I have also seen groom's cakes with crowns on them to signify the majesty of the groom(?).
 
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deannaj


Posted: Fri Feb 25, 2005 12:11 PM

The traditiion of the groom's cake is that if a single woman would take a small piece of the cake home and sleep with it under her pillow she would dream of the man she was going to marry. It is silly, but fun.

deanna
 
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ifs2cms


Posted: Mon May 09, 2005 6:22 AM

Groom's cakes are prevalent in the south - most northerners have never heard of them, but I don't think I've been to a wedding in the south that didn't have one. A friend of mine had an explanation that made sense - not sure if it's true or not. Southern weddings, until maybe 10-15 years ago, were usually just church receptions with cake and punch. Northern weddings typically go on for hours, are held in a hall, and include sit-down dinners, dancing, etc. She said they came about from the idea that there needed to be a little more to eat/choose from at the southern wedding. Of course, nowadays, southern weddings are including food buffets, etc., so we have best of both worlds!!!
 
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brendamays


Posted: Tue Jun 21, 2005 3:15 PM

Wilton has s guitar shaped pan.
Brenda
 
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