Hi just booked a room at the yacht club for our celebration diner and have agreed from them to make us a cake. I have emailed them to ask for it to be a sponge cake as neither my wife and I like fruit cake. My question is what kind of cake do the americians normally have on celebrations, you know like our wedding cakes are traditional fruit cakes but what are theirs ? [?]
If you watch Ace of Cakes on Good Food channel, one of the favourites seems to be a red velvet cake, but I think anything goes, here is a list of the flavours of cakes I found the website :
almond
almond amaretto cream
apples and cinnamon*
banana caramel
bananas foster
beurre noisette
black forest
blackberry sourcream
blueberry muffin*
brownie*
butterscotch walnut
cardamom and pistachio*
caribbean black cake*
carrot
cherry and almond
chocolate
chocolate cherry
chocolate chip muffin*
chocolate espresso
chocolate mint
chocolate orange
chocolate raspberry
curry caramel
dulce de leche
egg nog
ginger and green tea
italian orange and vanilla
lemon
lemon curd and berries
lemon poppyseed
marble
mudslide
orange and ginger
peaches and cream
peanut butter and jelly
peanut butter cup
pecan pie
pineapple coconut
pumpkin and cinnamon
pumpkin chocolate chip*
red velvet
strawberry shortcake
tiramisu
white
white chocolate raspberry
yellow
yellow w/ choc. buttercream
Good luck choosing ......
Wendy
Don't think rich fruit cakes are as popular in the States as here so you should be fine.
The closest to our plain sponge is "yellow" cake. We find that the cream they often use on their cakes is too sickly. Best though is Betty Crocker chocolate fudge buttercream.
Babblin Boo
The 'icing' will be soft and very sweet. The cake will be.... regular cake. American cake isn't as good as European cake.
Jeff & Amy Stephens
thought you might like to see a picture of our decorated white chocolate raspberry cake that disney did for us
it was very nice and the raspberry made it not too sweet
Kitch50 thank you for the list, makes me more confused than before and worried what they will choose for me. I'm sure it will be good.
Mizzy if my cake looks as good as that I'd be a happy man.
They have said they will make it beach themed as our renewals will be on the beach. Fingers crossed.
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Kitch50 thank you for the list, makes me more confused than before and worried what they will choose for me. I'm sure it will be good.
Mizzy if my cake looks as good as that I'd be a happy man.
They have said they will make it beach themed as our renewals will be on the beach. Fingers crossed.
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I saw this lovely cake in Publix when over in Rotonda a few weeks ago. Could be suitable for your renewals on the beach!
Bernadette
WOW! that is abeautiful cake, it's like wedding cake. The mother's day cake is beautiful too! When you say fruit cake, do you the same kind americans eat at xmas.
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