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When you think about wedding cakes, chances are that you envision a tall, elegant dessert. It has sleek sides
and might be adorned with splashes of sugar roses and pounds of buttercream frosting. Even if the cake is simple,
ungarnished with excesses of sugar sculpture and fondant shapes, a wedding cake will always be elegant.
At least, almost always.
More and more couples are moving away from the traditional wedding cake model, having cupcake towers so that each guest can have an individual, elaborately decorated cake. The cupcakes maintain the elegance of tradition, but allow for an infusion of fun. Even further from the standard, however, is the snack-food cake. A snack food cake can be made of anything from Twinkies to Snowballs and chocolate donuts. What I didn't realize was how much the trend towards down-market "cakes" was catching on until I saw a "cake" of homemade Ding Dongs in the New York Times wedding announcements over the weekend.
Would you have wanted this at your wedding? Are you considering it for the future? I can't say that I would want it, but I would definitely serve ice cold milk, and not champagne, if I did.
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4-18-2006 @12:13PM M. Kieta said... You think "ding-dongs" make a bizzare wedding cake? My daughter's cake is being made of METAL. The bestman is a welder, so in his honor, they asked him to make a metal wedding cake for them. It turned out gorgeous! He's one talented guy!
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4-18-2006 @12:14PM Linda said... Definately Trashy idea. The whole realm of a wedding is to signify purity, beauty and love, all a ding dong wedding cake reminds me of is a messy little 5 year old's face when he/she eats it! Get back to tradition. Celebrate in style! It's the one day that the happy couple can be princess and prince! Make it special, you wouldn't want to see the wedding pictures 10 years down the road when this new "TREND" has come to an end and say, "What were we thinking?" "Ring Dings???!!!" Grow up!! If you're mature enough to get married, than make it a glorious occasion. If you can't afford a bakery cake, have a homemade one! Not Twinkies, Ring Dings, etc. Give me a break!
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4-18-2006 @12:17PM MsSingle said... This twinkie would like to find a ding-dong to get married to someday!!!
The most important ingredients are the two people getting married!!!
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4-18-2006 @12:23PM tabitha english said... I AM PLANNING MY DAUGHTER'S WEDDING IN MARCH'07 AND I WAS APPALLED AT HER SUGGESTION OF CUPCAKES INSTEAD OF A WEDDING CAKE!! SHE SAID THAT SHE JUST WANTS HER CAKE TO BE DIFFERENT AND MEMORABLE. WELL, THEY WILL REMEMBER IT ALRIGHT, BUT FOR ALL THE WRONG REASONS. I HAVE TO STAND MY GROUND ON THIS ONE. WE WILL HAVE THE TRADITIONAL WEDDING CAKE....THE GUESTS EXPECT TO HAVE CAKE....SOME COME JUST FOR THE SMALL SLICE OF HEAVEN!!
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4-18-2006 @12:24PM Carrie said... We spent many hundreds of dollars on our wedding cake 12 years ago, and it was pretty and tasty...whatever, no big deal. I LOVE the idea of an original cake like this! If I would have thought about it I would have done it....not with ding dongs but some other fun snack cake all done up with fresh flowers or something. A reception is a celebration of the couple, and a fun couple should have a fun cake :)
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4-18-2006 @12:24PM pat said... THE WEDDING IS WHAT THE BRIDE AND GROOM WANT, NOT WHAT EVERONE THINKS IS RIGH OR WRONG.OTHERS CAN PLAN THERE OWN WEDDING.
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4-18-2006 @12:24PM Moonmaid said... It's Ring Dings, not Ding Dongs, btw. That Times writer is so friggin esoteric, they don't even know their suburban junk food.
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4-18-2006 @12:26PM chrissy said... I am getting married in September of this year. I understand the entire concept of the fun new wedding cakes. Traditionally the grooms cake was the chance for many couples to get fun and unique in the design of a cake. Many people have forgotten the grooms cake which has been a favorite in the south for as long as I can remember. We are of course having the traditional wedding cake....( ours is for 100 ppl, three square tiers, almond with raspberry filling and was less than 400.00 which included deposits on stands, delivery, and setup )We are also having a grooms cake which we are making ourselves:
( it will consist of little debbie pumpkin cakes decorated on a bed of fall leaves, with squash and a cornucopia of fall fruits and berries )
It is possible to have the best of both worlds........
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4-18-2006 @12:28PM Debbie Neel said... Oh thats a no no! That is something that would come from the hillbilly's in ARKANSAS. Show a little class not trailer trash.
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4-18-2006 @12:29PM Christine said... I personally wouldn't have one at my wedding, but hey, a wedding is one of the most important days in people's lives and one of the only important days that you can control, mostly. If that is what makes the couple happy and the wedding memorable, then what's the problem? It's just like if the bride doesn't want to wear the traditional wedding dress.
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4-18-2006 @12:30PM Rebecca Brink said... I think it's a great idea to have individual cakes, but Hostess snack foods? Come on... I used to eat those at tee ball and AYSO games with Capri Sun. I'm hoping my wedding will have a bit more class than a children's sports game.
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4-18-2006 @12:30PM Amy said... A wedding day is meant to be special, personal, and memorable. It's the bride and groom's day, so the details should be personalized for them. Yet too many brides feel obligated to follow every wedding tradition and have an expensive, lavish ceremony with an expensive, lavish reception. Yes, I like an elegant cake, but that doesn't mean everyone does. A lovely wedding does not necessarily require satiny white fluff--so why should the cake?
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4-18-2006 @12:33PM mike said... So what if it slaps tradition in the face....3 dozen ding dongs was so much cheaper than an actual wedding cake....gives the new couple more money for honeymoon, starting a family , etc....my wedding was unique in the fact that our friends from our local Medieval Recreation group (www.sca.org) made a huge castle with drawbridge, and working catapult using soda cans. Weddings should be fun!!!
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4-18-2006 @12:37PM Kay Kiskaden said... The way I see it the lawer is probably makling his living off of the white trash as he/she calls them...But it is one's wedding and if they sgould want a hotdog cake it is their day.....I woul think the rich, upper class likes ding dongs as mich as the lower class.....Wedding is to be wed is it not to just out do the next one......By the way upper class have you been in grocery and priced ding dongs???????Does fancy cakes make any one more married than a ding dong cake I think not............Kay
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4-18-2006 @12:38PM D.W. said... How tacky! Only a moron with no class would think up something as corny as this! I dont feel sorry for the woman who marries such a cheapskate, tough luck honey, you get what you pay for!
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4-18-2006 @12:38PM Kristin said... Heck, forget the ding dongs and twinkies, give me a cake soaked in alcohol and honey anyday!!!!!!
The only thing I can say about the ding dongs is that it isn't very aesthetically pleasing as a traditional cake.
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4-18-2006 @12:39PM Cheri said... I jut got married...Both of us are bush pilots, and our cake had an airstrip made out of brown sugar, a miniature airplane, a miniature windsock on it! The fallacy came when fellow pilots attended the wedding an realized that we had placed the windsock in the wrong direction, and the airplane was making a downwind takeoff!
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4-18-2006 @12:41PM Amber said... Some people dont even get wedding cakes. so I think its fun & a cheep way to make sure your wedding has all the wonderful parts it needs to make your special day perfect.
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4-18-2006 @12:42PM ling-ling said... Are those real flowers?
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4-18-2006 @12:45PM Mercedes said... I think a triditional wedding cake is nice for formal weddings. Ding Dongs, etc, maybe for casual setting. Bottom line - Bride's choice....
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