Wedding Cake

[WeAreBongo]

If you were at a wedding and was offered a choice of wedding fruit cake or wedding sponge cake, which would you choose (if any!)?

[redcrx]

whichever didnt have the marzipan on it! :)

[YvonneM]

Why not have both fruit on the bottom sponge on the top

[CheekyChops]

I woudl choose Sponge. I don't mind the fruit cake, its the marzipan wrapped round it I can't stand!

As YvonneM says, why not have a tier of each?

[WeAreBongo]

Maybe I need to be a bit more specific; marzipan on neither, icing on both. I'm trying to get the sponge/fruitcake ratio right for the big day!!

[hayley2956]

id have sponge. Im generalising here but in my opinion fruit cake is rather outdated and would appeal more to the older guests, with the sponge for the youner and child guests maybe??

[Kim A]

OK. Marzipan - fairly universally hated on a cake.
Royal (break your teeth) icing - fairly unpleasant when on a fruit cake, having been next to marzipan.
Fruit cake - beloved of old ladies and serious traditionalists, but fairly disliked by most right-thinking people. It's too heavy after a meal

Ditch the fruit/sponge option and opt for all chocolate - everyone likes that! We did. Everyone remembers it, everyone says 'Oh, that chocolate cake at your wedding..........Yum....'

[tubeway]

I love fruit cake - especially with marzipan (I'm not an old lady either)

[mccfluff]

fruit for me

[funnygirl]

fruit with both icing and marzipan.
My hubby hates icing but loves marzipan.
So when we have wedding cake, he gives me his icing.

[Cheekystar]

sponge cake please! with or withoiut marzipan.
Why not do a tier of each...
but please don't go for cup cake wedding cake - went to a wedding recently with them... not too good

[fine,thanks]

traditional fruit.

[WeAreBongo]

Hmmm, interesting. So far the ratio is 4:3 in favour of fruitcake....

[BBWCHATT]

If you did individually iced cakes and did them kind of like this one from the Martha Stewart website - you could have some of both.

http://www.marthastewart.com/portal/site/mslo/ menuitem.3a0656639de62ad593598e10d373a0a0/?vgn extoid=f8e35f667e842110VgnVCM1000003d370a0aRCR D&vgnextchannel=64f1289c2d2ee010VgnVCM1000003d 370a0aRCRD&rsc=collage_weddings_wedding-recept ion-cakes_p7&lastnavigatedchannel=64f1289c2d2e e010VgnVCM1000003d370a0aRCRD

[WeAreBongo]

True indeed Madam Chattenooga (and others who've suggested this). We plan to have a mixed-tier cake, but as fruitcake is richer and denser (is that a real word?) you get more slices per cake compared to an equivalent sized sponge (I can't believe I'm saying this, I usually talk about football and beer!!!). Anyway, without actually knowing what each guest's preference would be, I thought I'd see what a cross section of Answer Banker's thoughts would be on the thorny spongecake/fruitcake dilemma! I thank you one and all!!

[missrandom]

sponge for me!! but just for the record i LOVE marzipan, could eat it sraight out the packet!!

[WendyS]

Unless it's an excellently made fruit cake, they can often be a bit dry. I'd opt for the sponge cake (especially if I'd already eaten a meal at the reception) as it's lighter. But quite honestly, I much rather just have the marzipan, which I would eat quite happily on its own !

[Zeddy]

Fruit for me.
Oh and some sponge too if it's going.

[cameo]

It's gotta be fruit cake for me, with marzipan.

[YvonneM]

I would have sponge but my husband would prefer fruit
I would not eat fruit but he would eat sponge

[WeAreBongo]

I think honours are even on this debate. I thank all Bankers who responded!