Brides ask us all the time how much does it costs for a wedding cake. Just as houses come in all different price ranges, so do wedding cakes. Some supermarkets make pretty good wedding cakes at under $2 per slice. Over-the-top wedding cakes produced by Ana Paz and other high quality cake designers can cost five to ten times or more that price. Mid-range wedding cakes cost in the $3 to $4 per slice range.
I always recommend to my brides that they prioritize the importance of the various components of their wedding: venue, catering, music, flowers, cake, décor, photography, lighting, beverages, etc. Then list them from most to least important. If the wedding cake is at the top of your list, then spending more for a better looking and tasting cake may make sense. If the cake is simply something you want to have, merely as a formality, then why spend a fortune on the cake?
Over the years I’ve seen and cut thousands of cakes….I’ve tried to cut beautiful ones that are so dry inside they crumbled into an unrecognizable pile, ones that have fondant thick enough to require a chain saw to cut through, and ones that look great and taste way less than that. (By the way, just to set the record straight, Bill Hansen Catering does not make wedding cakes, and we only recommend bakers that we can trust not to let the above happen).
Most cakes not that memorable…a few are, such as the Crockenbush (Piece Monte), one made completely from Haagen-Dazs ice cream (boy, we had to move fast before it melted), cupcake tree cakes, groom’s cakes shaped like cigar boxes, and the list goes on… How about this one from the Internet?
I always recommend to my brides that they prioritize the importance of the various components of their wedding: venue, catering, music, flowers, cake, décor, photography, lighting, beverages, etc. Then list them from most to least important. If the wedding cake is at the top of your list, then spending more for a better looking and tasting cake may make sense. If the cake is simply something you want to have, merely as a formality, then why spend a fortune on the cake?
Over the years I’ve seen and cut thousands of cakes….I’ve tried to cut beautiful ones that are so dry inside they crumbled into an unrecognizable pile, ones that have fondant thick enough to require a chain saw to cut through, and ones that look great and taste way less than that. (By the way, just to set the record straight, Bill Hansen Catering does not make wedding cakes, and we only recommend bakers that we can trust not to let the above happen).
Most cakes not that memorable…a few are, such as the Crockenbush (Piece Monte), one made completely from Haagen-Dazs ice cream (boy, we had to move fast before it melted), cupcake tree cakes, groom’s cakes shaped like cigar boxes, and the list goes on… How about this one from the Internet?
Wedding Cake Topped with a Large Wheel of Cheese with a Greek Gyro Round on top of that, Topped with Whipped Cream and a Strawberry the size of Rhode Island.
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