Who's doing the "fake cake"?

I am doing a fake cake but I am going to attempt to do the fake part myself!!! I already have the foam cut out. Next weekend I am going to attempt to make fondant and then cover and decorate to see what it will look like. I may do a couple of different ideas and get other people's opinion. Of course if it turns out to be total crap I will have to re think things

What a brilliant idea! I'm gonna have to remember to ask for that once i get that ball rolling!

If I recall correctly Mek Mek is!

Never heard of this! Very smart idea!

I was married 9-25-10 and when I first heard about this, I was slightly appalled but then when I realized how much sense it made, I was really happy about it.. LOL, the thing is, my venue included the cake in the price, so I had to be sure to get a breakdown of how much of what I was spending (per plate or as a whole) was going toward that cake to be sure i was getting a decent deal, yaknow? I can tell you from experience, it worked out fine and everyone loved our cake

The bottom tier of my cake is fake well styrofoam. The design just wasn't the same with only 2 or 3 tiers.

The fake tier was actually my mother's idea. She attended a wedding that served pices from a sheet cake after taking away the "display" cake.

Wow Thats an awesome idea it would save soo much money thanks for the idea

It such an amazing and great way to save money that I thought I would share this with other brides !! Even if my budget was endless, I would probably do the same thing...but seeing as we are on a tight budget, I can have the dream cake I want at a fraction of the cost; plus hey, who's really going to know its fake anyways?? Nobody's going to be in the kitchen when they cut it

@MekMek...you go girl!! How many tiers are you doing?? Are you also doing a anniversary cake on top.?? The guy who is doing our cake said we would need four tiers...three would be fake and one would be the anniversary. Also, how do you know where to cut??? Our baker said there would be a place where we could cut into so we could still do the cake ceremony, but how do you cut if the whole cake looks the same??

Here's our cake.

Since we are having a DW our bakery has offered to FedEx a similar cake to us in a year but I'm not to sure how I feel about eating 3 to 4 day old cake. So FH and I may just have one recreated at Publix (best inexpensive cake in the South).

The top 3 tiers are will be served to our guest. In your case I'm sure your baker will indicate the real from the fake. If not that would make for one very funny photo.

We're doing it! FH is a great baker and cake decorator (a hobby, lol), but we're not crazy enough to try to bake our own wedding cake to feed 125 people, so we're going to do syrofoam with a piece cut out to put the real cake in, and we're going to buy a load of sheet cake. FH will deccorate the fake one. We also negotiated with the venue to not charge us a cake cutting fee (which is robbery, IMHO), so we're going to have the baker do it if it's reasonable, or do it ourselves. I'd much rather throw the extra money at a quality DJ vs. a pretty cake.

@ Tracy...what a great way to fool your guests!!! I will be smiling when the guests eat the cake knowing that the cake they think they are eating is from a sheet cake and not the cake we cut How awesome that FH is a baker!! I would get into trouble living with you guys. I wanna see pictures of the cake he decorates...and I agree; cake cutting fee's are redoncoulous; not to mention all the other fees and grat's they charge!!!!

@MekMek..I LOVE it!! The flowers make that cake....I'd say Publix all the way; I love me some Publix cake!!!

I am doing it too!!!! i am only doing a 2 tier cake tho with the top layer being for FH & I! the rest will be sheet cake! it saves sooo much money!

my cake will look like this, but instead of snowflakes it will have butterflies

Let the photographer knows what part is fake...so they don't try to get a macro shot of the fake part. Good idea...

Who knows,,, I may have comes a cross a few,,, but can't tell

I'm doing the fake cake too, i got the idea from a bridal fair i attended. one of the bakers admitted to me that people do it all the time and just don't tell anyone, and all the cakes she had on display that day that looked totally real were all FAKE! i love the idea!!

@theragirl if you don't want to go through the trouble of making your own fondant they sell it at both micheals and joann fabrics, it's ready-to-use all you have to do is roll it out with a rolling pin and wrap your fake tiers around it. it's extremely easy and there are some helpful videos on youtube.one more tip it's better to get it from joanns because just in case you want to buy more then one box they let you use multiple coupons in one transaction as long as the numbers at the bottom are different on each coupon and they take competitors coupons. i used 10 coupons at once before,love that store. here's a pic of my first attempt at a fake cake i don't like the topper, and a pic of the box of fondant you can buy.

Beautiful cakes ladies!! I wish I was that crafty but I'm not I think fake cakes are the way to go!! Who's gonna really know anyways??!!!

Thank you Jabez Photography for the tip!! I will definately let my photographer know

I wanna see more fake cake pictures ladies !!

Ok so heres my question....if you do a fake cake how do you show you and your FH cut into the cake???

Never heard of this but it is BRILLIANT! I'm going to recommend this to my roommate [:

This was my wedding cake at my reception at Shangri-la. Only the bottom layer is edible and it was enough to feed my 100 guest and have some leftover to take home.

@ Kia L. thanks for the tip, we don't have Joann's in Canada, I watched some you tube videos with marshmallow fondant and it doesn't look that difficult( famous last words) that is why I am going to have a cake weekend where I can play around with it. I will post picks as soon as I do it.

We wanted to do a few fake layers, but they wanted practically as much to do a fake layer as they did the real layer.