Friends of mine had a cake tasting platter rather than a big, traditional style offering and it was great. It covered all sorts of options and meant it actually got eaten, while still providing an impressive centrepiece to the meal

4 seasons cake!: spring = lemon drizzle 🍋 summer = victoria sponge 🍓 autumn = carrot cake or coffee cake 🥕 winter - fruit cake or chocolate cake 🍫

Hi Grace! Long time viewer, first time commenter. I got married last year, and had the same concern that guests wouldn't eat the cake. We ended up going for a small centrepiece Victoria sponge with several flavours of cupcake and the guests devoured them within minutes of cutting the cake, because cupcakes are easier to just grab and eat - people feel weird about cutting and eating a slice of a bigger cake. My husband and I are both vegan and had a fully vegan wedding but even that didn't put our 100 guests off eating the cupcakes. Can't wait to see more wedding planning, it really is the most exciting time of your life 💗

I'm SO here for the wedding content 😆 Eeekkk! So excited for Grace 🌞

Don't worry about other people's opinions of your choices. This will forever and only be yours and your fiancé's special day! And thanks for the cake content for us non-tiktokers! Sweet!

Hi Grace! I baked my friend's wedding cake. It was 4 tiers (2 Victoria sponge, a lemon and poppyseed and a chocolate at the bottom). The chocolate cake was the chocolate wedding cake recipe on BBC good food. It is the BEST chocolate cake I've ever made and I had absolutely everyone at the wedding telling me how much they loved it. I recommend trying the recipe.

Grace I love these videos so much! If I may, I'd like to offer a thought on your super generous and kind expectations of your wedding day (that other people enjoy it); this day is all about YOU and your soon-to-be husband, not anyone else. This is your day with him. It's so lovely that you want to make others happy but please allow yourself to be at least a bit "selfish". You deserve to have the day of your dreams.

I married way way back in 1985 - I had three tiers and a fantastic local baker. She was amazing and was recommended from friends. Bottom tier was fruit cake, second tier was Victoria sponge and the top tier was carrot cake (my favourite, even back then) Complete with flower decorations and cake pillars matching my 'wedding theme' - A perfect wedding cake was for made for me... I did it way before the internet and you can too.

Totally agree about the styrofoam nonsense! My mom was a wedding planner and told me that some bakers do that. I was shocked 😳 and disappointed honestly! I’m a pastry cook and every wedding cake I’ve made has been 100% edible. My latest was supposedly all eaten! I think people appreciate cakes more nowadays since they’re usually a higher quality

Thanks for the KZfaq content!! I don't use tiktok so I'm super excited to see this content here on KZfaq!

for our wedding we had a croquembouche, so the caramel vanilla and pistachio profitrolle tower tiered on top of the Russian honey cake. Honey cake is basically numerous super thin honey biscuit layers with creme fraiche in between what a next day breakfast it was❤️ fav wedding memory lol

my wedding cake last year was vanilla sponge with fresh raspberries and champagne syrup, with a white chocolate frosting DIVINE

I think you might have a typo in section 2. Prince Harry and Princess Kate's cake? Maybe William and Kate?

I know a couple who actually had a variety of cakes, from cupcakes to French fancies, Swiss roles, cookies and fruit as their weeding reception food. They had juice and shloer too. It worked really well from them. I always thought that the top tier of the wedding cake was actually kept by the bride and groom/ frozen and eaten on their first anniversary. I think it had some symbolic meaning

I made a war time chocolate biscuit/fridge cake for a 1940s party. Queen Elizabeth was such a fan, she apparently had it every afternoon. Her love for the cake evidently passed onto Prince William who had it as a “grooms cake”.

I’ve been watching you for years and I just can’t explain how happy it makes me to see you rolling out wedding content! So so happy for you, Grace! ❤

had an awful day today and grace posting is just what i needed. especially wedding content!!!

Me and my lovely husband got married in November, and there is still wedding cake in the freezer! Our issue was the venue handing out tiny slivers of cake. Make sure you specifically tell them to give out generous portions. Also have the most amazing day, it's honestly awesome ❤️

Food for though (pun intended): We had eight different cakes at our wedding, mostly homemade, nothing fancy. It was a really fun touch, and there was something for everyone! I can't even remember all the flavours anymore, but I know we had a "naked" white cake with strawberry filling (I don't like icing so this was first pick), a red velvet cake with cream cheese frosting (spouse's favourite), and a lemon blueberry cake with goat cheese frosting (a wildcard pick that ended up being AMAZING - my aunt made it!). We also had a milk and cookies bar as the favours for our guests.

Yay wedding content...not surprised you started with wedding cake. At my friend's wedding the cake had some sort of issue because the fondant (eww) wouldn't stay on the cake and when it was cut it just rolled up. My friend was mortified but now it's a funny story she likes to tell. That is one thing that I've learned over years of going to weddings, it often the little oops that make the wedding stand out!

Yessss!!! Love videos like this, and am excited to see your wedding cake!

Never heard of fridge cake before but it remains me of a square recipe that I love to make with a pink buttercream icing instead of chocolate on top "arrowroot bars"

Thank you Grackle. Your words meant a lot me today. I needed to hear this today

We had a very small traditional looking cake, and besides that we asked some people who we know love to bake to bake something to bring to the wedding (instead of a gift). We ended up with brownies, cupcakes etc. and everyone loved it! We were broke when we got married 4 years ago so we had to keep it simple and we were so thankful that people were willing to bake something :)

I love wedding content 💖 Lemon curd is one of my favorite cake fillings

I’ve been planning my wedding for the last 18 months and the wedding cake has been the best bit. I went to every wedding fair going, tried every sample possible and found a local lovely lady and she gave us so many samples when we were putting it together it was great!!

Summer wedding in a barnnnn 🥰 love it for you grack

1:08 "have their cake and eat it too" was RIGHT THERE come on grace

Hi Grace! So I worked weddings for a big chunk of my very short life. And in doing so I got to eat a LOT of wedding cake. Due to the nature of a chocolate cake as you surely know from your studies to become a baker you will know chocolate cakes can tend to become a little dry. And I can say all the chocolate cakes I had were dry or very dry. Whilst I wouldn't say that's a reason to just not have a chocolate wedding cake I would say it's something to bear in mind. The absolute best wedding cake I had was a lemon and blueberry sponge with cream cheese icing. And I think I might have had 5 or 6 slices as the bride and groom kept offering us more cake and I absolutely could not say no it was the best cake I've ever had nevermind wedding cake. Personally I'll be doing a lemon and blueberry and perhaps a chocolate fudge/red velvet as my partner isn't a fan of fruit. We also had a lemon poppy seed cake at work one day and they just stay so moist and lovely, so I definitely recommend lemon cakes for a wedding.

Nice to see another cooking video finally. Miss those!

I love the wedding content! Can’t wait on see some more videos ❤

Food AND wedding preparation???? I AM IN!!

Hi Grace! I got ONE bite of my wedding cake - when we fed it to each other! Our cake had two tiers, one for him and one for me. His was a double chocolate with a raspberry filling, and mine was a lemon cake with raspberry and lemon curd!!

I loved our wedding cake! Lemon with lemon buttercream and blackberry curd in the middle- perfect for end of summer!

Loved this!! 💍 I got engaged this month so I am really excited we can go through this wedding journey together!! 🥰👏 Bring on all the wedding content 🥳🥳 xxx

When Grace said “I know a lot of weddings where people end up not eating the cake.” I was like “Clearly not a wedding I or my family have ever been to” 😂

Loved this and Omg I loved cake boss back in the day 🫶🏻🥰

My cousin had a little traditional wedding cake that was for decoration mostly. But she also had individual cake slices of a few different flavours so that the other guests could choose which kind they wanted. I thought that was a really good idea.

Brings back memories :) i made my friend's wedding cake along with another friend, 2st and only time ive done something like this. She did the decorating, which I don't like doing, and I made the cakes. 3 tiers, there was a chocolate cake, a carrot cake and then Victoria sponge. It was a hit. It looked fantastic thanks to my friend.

yessss we love to see the wedding content!!! I'm engaged and planning my wedding too :)

Thank you for thinking of the few of us who don’t have TikTok!!!❤

Loved it!

Traditionally fruit cake is often had because people save the top tier - the fruit cake part - as good luck for their first borns christening/baptism/naming, fruit cake being the only cake that could realistically last a longer length of time. Love the video!! X

We had two cakes, a brides and a grooms. The brides cake came from a fancy bakery and was a vanilla cake with raspberry jam and buttercream frosting. The grooms cake was a chocolate costco cake!! You wanna know which cake had zero left? Costco cake for the win haha

Congratulations on your engagement ❤

Not me coming back after months to Grace being engaged!! Ahhh! I didn’t even know she had a bf. What a wonderful beautiful surprise! So many blessings!

I agree, so rare to see cakes with handmade sugar crafted flowers probably due to cost

YES Queen!!! I've never heard of a fridge cake... And I currently have no oven and want to make my dad a cake for his birthday. I think people will be expecting a good cake at your wedding because you're particular with baked goods. I personally feel you should have 3 tier. Viccie sponge, chocolate and your fave flavour like lemon, carrott (on the top so you get the frosting!!) And everyone is happy!! A friend of mine had 2 big caterpillar cakes, then mini ones around them it was quite cute!! Xxx

Loved this

my granny makes this fridge cake! she does it only for special occasions e.g. bdays and christmas. she puts a bit of brandy in it though and its gives such a good edge. it's my fave ever haha. we call it Granny's chocolate biscuit cake though xx

English summer wedding sounds divine!

As a cake maker, I just wanted to say the 'faux' layers of cake or styrofoam tiers help to make the cake far less expensive than if all the tiers were cake.

My wedding cake was covered in chocolate, chocolate flowers etc, it was stunning. Flavours were white chocolate and raspberry, lemon and blueberry, and then there was a gluten free chocolate one which wasn't good but the best was the white chocolate and raspberry. Stunning.

I think I would love to do wedding cupcakes! Then everyone gets their own and you could do so many different flavors! 😋🧁

Oh, we have fridge cake here in Germany too! It's prepared a little bit differently and called Kalter Hund ("cold dog") or Kalte Schnauze (" cold snout"). :)

Thank you much love xx

Me and hubby had the top tier to honor mine and his grandparents,the 2nd layer was lemon drizzle which is a favourite of mine and then we had chocolate fudge on the bottom coz we knew more people would like it but it was a favourite of my husbands, but we went for square shaped cakes that had polka dots and fondant ribbons on it so it looked like a little stack of presents so sorta cutting into a surprise in each one.

CONGRATULATIONS Grace on your engagement ♡♡♡ Much love from Vermont 🌻🌲🌻🌲

We had lemon and poppy seed for one tier and white caramel mud for the other. I was suprised how much got eaten and actually wished we had more leftovers. We had both dessert and cake. I was stressed no one would eat the cake.

Grace: "I'm big on baked goods" Me (who's been following the channel for like 3 or 4 years): "Really ?!!! I never noticed that!"

I love wedding content 🤪🤪 it would be fun for a video of you tasting all the cakes and your ideas for your own wedding, im so excited for you!!!

Yes CAKE is so important for the wedding I'm a retired cake decorator so you are so right🤣🤣🤣🤣 Beautiful wedding 🎂 🥮 congratulations

I didn’t know Brits called that fridge cake! Here in Ireland we call it chocolate biscuit cake. Straight to the point🤣 definitely shouldn’t have raisins or fruit!

We had a fish and chip van at our wedding, and cut up the cake for dessert so that it didn't go to waste! X

My dream wedding cake would be a funfetti cake!!! 😍🎉🎂🍰

I had a 3 tier cake! Two tiers of Raspberry and White Chocolate, one tier of lemon. White chocolate ganache and topped with macarons 🥰

My friends cut their cake before dinner for the classic photo, and then it was all cut up and served as dessert platters instead of a dessert! They also served bowls of fruit and cream with it. Win win in that you pay for one thing and get both. And it means no waste!

I can recommend Peboryon for cakes, they’re realllly good!

Lemon is a fabulous flavour for cakey items 😊👍

So interesting! I didn't know what fridge cake was, but it's the same as Salame de Chocolate (except Salame de Chocolate is wrapped in the shape of a log, hence the name). So cool. We also add egg to it, sometimes, i think.

My fridge cake growing up was graham crackers with a layer of vanilla pudding and then another layer of graham crackers with a layer of chocolate pudding and repeat.🥰

We had a small wedding cake to cut and the rest were cupcakes super nice

I dont know about British wedding traditions, but in the United States, the top layer is often fruit cake because that top layer is served as dessert for the one year anniversary. Congratulations and Best Wishes on the beginning of your new life.

For a fridge cake maybe try lolly cake. It's quite popular here in nz. Crushed biscuits mixed with melted butter and chopped up soft lollies and refrigerated until it hardens. My sister in law had a homemade wedding cake and lolly cake was one of the layers

With a fridge cake Grace to loosen it. Run a blow torch around the edge. The warm cloth was a good idea though.

We had our wedding cake instead of dessert we served it with cream and berries as it was a rich chocolate one. But we thought the venue had served it all and then discovered they'd only used a bit and we had tons!!! So make sure the venue knows to cut up the rest if you have it for dessert

As a former wedding planner, I think a big contributing factor to people not eating the cake is it has moved to be served in the evening buffet- and people can often realise it’s not there or be a bit tiddly to want to consume it! My advice would be to do the cake cut just after your wedding breakfast, serve some then and then you can also put some out in the evening if you’re having separate evening guests! Also can be nice to have little boxes near by so guests can always take some with them

I’m from the 🇺🇸 and it’s bad luck to not eat the wedding cake so they set aside pieces wrapped to take home. They make sure everyone gets a piece. Also, I remember the cake drama from H&M’s wedding and the upset was that they didn’t choose the traditional royal wedding fruitcake and the traditional wedding cake design. Heaven forbid 🙄

I actually love fruit cake! I love SPICE and love FRUIT! so putting it all together in a cake with tea agh my favorite!

I’m kind of surprised you’re not making your own!

We are a BIG baking family so my cousin and his fiancé are having a thing where members of the family all bring cakes and then we all share them.

I was staring at the Tom Cruise case for ages because it looked like a dress with mustardy coloured sleeves! Then I realised there was a guy standing behind it - should've gone to Sp*cs*v*rs! 😂

My wedding cake, made by my MIL, was a heart shaped 3 layered white cake. It had a light blue icing with tiny flowers also done in icing. We were married in April so it was really springtime like. I think wedding cakes here in the US and those in the UK are so different. Never been to a wedding where no one ate the cake. I don't think there was any cake left from my wedding, can't remember it was 35 years ago.

It's actually a good thing if not everyone eats the cake, it means you get leftovers! We had about 2 weeks of cake leftover, it was great!

I’d love to see some dress shopping!

One of my sisters had chocolate cake ( neither her or her husband like traditional fruitcake) as a wedding cake and cupcakes for the guests. If your fiancé is French, he might want to go for a pièce montée of choux balls stuck together with caramel. That is what my brother and his wife had.

Wait!! I didn't know Grace was getting married. Best wishes for you girl!

In the US, we have Icebox Cakes. They are especially popular in the south, where it gets very hot, because it's no bake and refrigerated. When you said "fridge cake" I was thinking icebox cake, but it was definitely different, and actually more complicated. lol Now I have to go make a strawberry cream ice cake thanks to this video.

I had lemon and elderflower layer cake for my civil partnership cake, everyone loved it! Choc cake can be a bit rich after alllll the food I think

Just don't go for an ice cream wedding cake - I went to a wedding in Spain and the cake melted within minutes - lasted almost as long as their marriage - it should've been a sign!

My sister had chocolate and we ate it for 2 whole weeks after the wedding there was that much left over, never a bad decision to go with chocolate!!

Love this content ❤️ we had a Fiona cairns wedding cake, from Waitrose! Three tier of Victoria sponge and decorated with lovely pink roses and fake flowers & ivy on the top. Quite vintage looking. We then had a fruit cake cutting bar for the traditionalists. Our venue kept aside the top tier for us to enjoy and served the rest to guests. Absolute respect to Waitrose, the cake was delivered to our venue and it was leaning to one side! We wrote to them and explained what happened and they apologised unreservedly saying such a thing shouldn't happen on such a special day. They refunded us the price of the cake plus £50 for the inconvenience!

If you hate greasing and lining tins, buy reusable greaseproof paper, cut to size of your tins, and wash between use. I have found it doesn't need greasing so I can just pop it in and go. (also my husband does the washing up

Omg I missed her getting engaged? 💍.. no way!! I don't know where I been.. ahhh

My wedding cake was styrofoam for top two tiers but purely because we had 3 of the bottom tiers made so there was more cake if that makes sense? We had 3 different flavours, hand crafted flowers and they even hand crafted figures of ourselves, our son and our labradors 😂 however, I can’t tell you what it tastes like! I didn’t have any 🙈🙈

In Italy we call “salame al cioccolato”-> chocolate sausage the first cake ( the one with chocolate and biscuits ) P.s usually it has a different shape like a sausage and not a real cake

My MIL paid for our wedding cake, which meant we somehow needed up with 3 layers of fruit cake. Neither my husband or I like fruit cake 🙈 I think this was her way of keeping a bit of tradition in a very untraditional wedding - although I did too it with white chocolate skulls! We also had a GIANT cheese wedding cake which was a great hit

As an American, I have never heard of a fridge cake but I’m intrigued!

We had a lemon & elderflower "signature" punch at our wedding which was a big hit. I noticed the cake had wattle on it which I haven't ever seen before and I'm Australian! Our wedding cake was caramel & vanilla fudge which was so delicous and we had a top layer of fruit cake (my husband and I both like it) which we kept and ate a slice every anniversary .. except it met a fatal end after a power shortage while we were away and the freezer didn't start back up.

You should order from celebrity cake makers and try their cakes!