Cake Flavors and Top Layers

We have a 4 tier with 3 different flavors.
4th tier (bottom)-White cake, with raspberry preserves, and a raspberry mouse filling
1st & 3rd tier-Chocolate cake, with chocolate ganche, and chocolate mouse filling
2nd tier-White cake, with a strawberry preserve, boston cream filling, and fresh fruit to top that layer off.

I wasn't sold on the last flavor I described but once I tasted it, it was a no brainer and it needed to be a flavor for our wedding.

We got a 4 tier cake and we are not sure if we are going to save it or eat it. It depends on how hungry our guest are. A lot of the bakery's were saying that saving the cake is a cute idea but it never taste as good.

We are having yellow butter cake... We will save the top layer. All you have to do is wrap it in a ton of plastic wrap... maybe a couple of layers of aluminum foil for good measure... You don't want there to any air near the cake. That's what causes freezer burn... I'm sending mine home with my BIL... he knows how to wrap it correctly...

Our entire cake was french vanilla cake with fresh strawberries and champagne filling. We hadn't intended to save the top tier but the venue did it without asking. So I took it home and put it in one of those vacuum sealed bags for a year!

We had chocolate cupcakes w/ espresso filling, yellow cupcakes w/ apple pie filling, NY style cup-cheesecakes and turtle cup-cheesecakes. We did have a top tier that we are saving for our anniversary. The secret I was told was chill it down then alternate wrapping it with foil and plastic wrap.

We have a 4 tier cake. From bottom up is white, chocolate, marble with white mouse filling and the top (which we are going to save) will be chocolate.

We are doing cupcakes, and a two tiered cake. Our cupcake flavors are lime margarita, which is basically a white cupcake, with a really light, tangy lime frosting, a White Chocolate Raspberry Gnash, a chocolate cupcake with raspberry filling and a white chocolate gnash frosting, and A chocolate overload, which is chocolate cupcake, with a chocolate frosting, with a chocolate syrup drizzle. And for our cake, FH wanted to go traditional with it, so it is a white cake with strawberry filling. I am not completely sure if we are going to save our top tier, we may, it just depends on if the guests are hungry for it. lol

We are doing a square tiered cake - chocolate cake with raspberry filling (the cake is so light and moist and the filling is not too sweet or too tart) with Chocolate icing and assorted pink colored sugar roses - I am not sure how many layers we are getting - our venue has an in house pastry chef and she is amazing but we didn't get the chance to talk to her directly at our meeting but was told we should have contact with her at our last meeting set for two weeks prior. I am not sure if we are going to be saving our top tier - knowing me and my FH (both being chocolate/sugar-holics) I doubt it will last in our house long LOL

Maybe this post was a bad idea... lol, I'm getting pretty hungry reading all the different flavors and fillings. Thanks ladies.

So it looks like most people are doing the save the top unless it is needed to serve hungry guests. I might just tell them to save it for last. If it is needed than serve, otherwise we'll save it.

We are having two flavors: strawberries and cream on white cake, and chocolate raspberry. We are also having a grooms cake which we haven't figured flavor for yet. And we are keeping the top layer for us. when my mom remarried, she kept the top layer and for her 1 year it was so special, to have a piece of that cake, which was amazingly good still!

3 tiers, 1 flavor: amaretto flavored yellow cake w amaretto laced buttercream frosting. We get a free anniversary cake if we send the bakery a pro pic of the cake so plan to devour the top layer of the cake that night as it was delish at the tasting.

Oh my...this is making me hungry!

We are having 4 tiers of carrott cake. Yes, I will save the top tier, which is an oversized cupcake, for our anniversary. Let's hope my 16 year old doesn't find it.

3-tier square cake. 1 flavor/tier.

- top tier (saved but neither one of us liked it so his family ate it):

strawberry grandmarnier (gold cake soaked with grand marnier, white chocolate mousse, raspberry preserve & fresh strawberries)

- middle tier: marble mocha truffle fudge (marble gold cake, mocha mousse, truffle fudge filling)

- bottom tier/favorite: chocolate truffle fudge (chocolate cake, chocolate mousse & truffle fudge filling)

- frosting: combo of vanilla buttercream & french buttercream. french buttercream is heavier/thicker.

don't have a picture of the strawberry grandmarnier, sorry.

love my watered down rum&coke next to my cake? lol.

I suggest to my brides to put down 3 layers of heavy duty foil on table, wrap up frozen top tier and then put it into an ice cream bucket or a plastic container.

We are having chocolate Eclair cake and an Caramel Apple cake. My venue is saving the top for us

NotFroofy made our cake, a cascading cake with four layers. The bottom one was dark chocolate cake with chocolate ganache filling and vanilla butter cream icing. The second was lemon cake with raspberry mousse filling and lemon butter cream icing. The third was sour cream spice cake with pecans and sour cream frosting. The top layer was the traditional British fruit cake with marzipan and royal icing, which we saved for our anniversary.

The anniversary layer was still delicious on our anniversary. However, the freezing for a year became a tradition in Britain, where the traditional cake freezes much better than normal American sponge cake does. You might want to check with your baker; some will actually give you a free anniversary cake to eliminate the whole freezing issue.

I saved part of our cake but my daughter ended up basically sticking her entire face in it! i was laughing too hard to be mad. :-> anyway, if you're looking for a bakery i LOVED my cake and experience with rolling pin bakery in east setauket new york. www.rollingpinbakery.com. the thing i'm saving the most is the memories! :->

We are having a 4 tier cake and our flavors are chocolate fudge and french vanilla. The lady who is making our cake actually makes a separate top tier that she pre-wraps for us.

My daughters cake was three layers. They did not save the top layer as their bakery gave them a gift certificate for an anniversary cake.

The bottom layer was Pink Champagne with Strawberry filling.

The middle layer was Poppy Seed with Raspberry filling.

The top layer was white with lemon filling.

It was "iced" with buttercream and topped with a dark chocolate "flow". The calla lilies were made from white chocolate.

We're doing a 3 square tiered cake also. Top layer is orange/lemon cake with lemon filling , 2nd layer is red velvet with cream cheese filling, and bottom layer is chocolate with bavarian cream filling. All covered with buttercream frosting that's been smoothed flat but we're adding sugar crystal flakes to make it sparkly. The bakery does a cake for you on your 1 year anniversary so we don't have to worry about freezing it.

Thanks for asking Christine, I had the same question. Except, not sure we can save ours as we are having our wedding in Florida and we live in MD. Can we still save the top layer? We are not going on the Honeymoon until a week after the wedding.

Kathy R, if you don't mind me asking, how much as the cake? Just the design. Its gorgeous. I want that design.