Beyond Cake: 6 Sweet New Ideas for Wedding Desserts
Sure, the only thing more classic than a white dress for a wedding is a big ol’ white wedding cake, but with nuptials getting more creative and less traditional, who says that a wedding cake has to necessarily be a cake? To help you plan your reception menu, we’ve rounded up delicious wedding day treats from the ever-popular cupcake and cake pop tiers to offbeat options like brownies and ice cream. Whether you want to add these treats as a fun side to your traditional tiered cake or want to outright replace the cake altogether, you can’t go wrong with these wonderful wedding cake alternatives!
-Christina Izzo
Cupcakes
The most common alternative to a traditional tiered wedding cake is replacing the cake with its smaller, cuter counterpart, the ubiquitous cupcake. Cupcakes saturated the wedding world once a cupcake wedding cake graced the cover of Martha Stewart Weddings and ever since, scores of brides and grooms have opted for tiers of the tiny treats. Wedding cupcakes allow your guests to have easily portable, conveniently individual servings of frosted, baked goodness, and they’re more whimsical than their stodgier traditional cake, allowing even more opportunities for festive decoration, from cupcake stands to dainty liners, pretty sugar flowers to fondant toppings. They’re more cost effective than a big ol’ cake, leaving you more precious pennies to splurge on those “something blue” Louboutins you’ve been eyeing, plus, a tiny cupcake smashed in your face will do way less damage to your much-agonized-over makeup than a huge heaping slice of wedding cake will!
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Post a CommentI still want a traditional cake but I love the cake pops and brownies for the dessert station!
I must have the traditional wedding cake and chocolate covered strawberries looking like a little bride and groom have always been a must have also however I am now adding those cupcakes as they are way to cute to leave off the cake table.
The cake pop “cake” is a cool idea.
those cakes look so good
Cake pops are great had them at a baby Shower anda Graduation Party.
I’ve been to a children’s birthday party before and they also had cupcakes instead of cakes. I think it was adorable, since the color they chose was bright pink with butterflies on top. These cupcakes here are just elegant and wonderful. Great wedding desserts, indeed. Do they have packages for these desserts?
I would try all of these ideas, I am on my way to becoming a wedding planner, i would love to offer ideas like this to my clientele.
It does look like art hahaaa… I love it!!!
This looks so good. I would like to taste them.
These brownies are prettier than any other brownies I’ve seen.
The macarons here are so pretty (Southpaw Sweets makes them too!).
My friend has a business called Southpaw Sweets and she made the best mini cupcakes a gal could ever want for my wedding.
All of these look great
pretty
so cute, it’s more like an art piece than it is something to consume!
beautiful!
I made the final decision brownies
The icecream bowls look so good and creative
I agree
I love a chocolate foundue fountain and I am going to buy one
I would try the new wedding desert that look like a tower
Cake pops are very popular and I have not ate one yet
I haven’t had one either but would like to try.