Creative Wedding Ideas

Are you planning a wedding on a budget? If so, perhaps you should consider the idea to make your own wedding cake. In a budget conscious economy, this is quickly becoming the standard. Almost any recipe can be used to make and design your own wedding cake, but to help things along I’ve given you an easy recipe right here.

The actual weights and measures will vary depending on the number of invited guests, so be sure to make adjustments accordingly. As far as putting the cake together if you follow tradition, kits to make a wedding cake can be purchased fairly cheap at most arts and craft stores including the platforms and pillars for creating multi-tiered cakes, or, as many people do, you can make platforms from cardboard and cover them with foil. The platforms should of course be the same size as each layer of the cake.

Lots of ideas for decorating this cake can be found with a simple online search. For the cake decorating novice, it has been found that a “basket-weave” decoration using icing is the easiest way to decorate. Here’s a great recipe to make a wedding cake.

White Velvet Wedding Cake
1 1/2 cups butter, softened
1 1/2 cups white sugar
2 eggs
1 cup buttermilk
1 teaspoon baking soda
2 cups all-purpose flour
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/2 cup butter flavored shortening
1 (8 ounce) package cream cheese
4 cups sifted confectioners’ sugar
1 tablespoon milk
Instructions:
Preheat oven to 325 degrees F (165 degrees C). Grease and flour 2 round 8 inch pans. Sift the flour and salt together then set aside.

Cream the butter and sugar until light and fluffy. Add eggs and mix well. *Dissolve the baking soda in buttermilk. Alternately add the flour and buttermilk, beginning and ending with the flour. Pour into two 8-inch square or round pans.
Bake at 325 degrees F (165 degrees C) for approx. 30 minutes, or until toothpick inserted into center of cake comes out clean. Cool cake completely before icing.

To make the White Velvet Cream Cheese Icing: Beat shortening and cream cheese together. Gradually beat in confectioners sugar. Add milk until a frosting is formed. (Add more milk if necessary.)

I hope this wedding cake recipe will help you out if you do make the decision to make your own wedding cake. I know you won’t be disappointed. Make sure to experiment first with the recipe though, so you can alter the recipe if you need to.