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If you’re having your wedding reception in the middle of lunch and dinner, you can serve enticing food for your guests that they’ll love!
If your guests are going to be attending a 2 pm wedding reception, some of them might be quite hungry because they may be had a late breakfast, and are anticipating lunch.
You’ll want to serve food that will be filling, and have an appetizer feel to it, even if you plan on serving it as a meal. This way, you’ll cover all of your basis. Some people will only need a few bites of an appy, other’s will eat a full meal.
You can serve charcuterie, have a seafood bar, sushi bar, Greek food, or alluring appetizers like crostini’s for a 2 pm wedding reception.
Charcuterie Board
Charcuterie boards are made with a variety of meats, cheeses, condiments, and crackers.
Meats are rolled, or made into roses to create a textured look to the charcuterie board.
Soft and hard cheeses can be paired with meats, mustard, pickles, honey, or spreads (jelly’s, jam), layered on top of crostini’s, crackers, or slices of baguette.
You can include extra foods like grapes, arugula, hummus, dried fruits, and nuts for a complete charcuterie board.
Seafood Bar
Having a seafood bar at a wedding can either be a raw bar, or a seafood buffet table.
A raw bar is seafood that is cold such as oysters, mussels, scallops, and clams.
You can serve raw oysters with an accompanying cocktail for your weddings guests such as a Bloody Mary or a martini.
If you’re wanting a seafood buffet table, you can serve hot seafood sushi as calamari, prawns, crab, or fish and chip cups.
You can serve dips for your seafood bar such as butter for crab, shrimp cocktail sauce, tartar sauce for fish and chips, and spicy mayo for squid and octopus.
prawns
squid
octopus
scallops
shrimp
oysters
crab
fish & chip cups
Sushi Bar
Sushi is an easy to serve wedding reception food. Sushi is individually portioned, therefore guests can fill up their own plates with their favorite sushi rolls.
You can serve deep fried vegetable or prawn tempura, sushi cones, sashimi, or nigiri sushi for a spread of choices.
You can include vegetable rolls such as avocado or cucumber rolls for your guests.
Another option would be to serve deep fried rolls such as a California roll.
For a wedding reception, you’ll also want to serve more elaborate rolls that topped with avocado or mango.
You can also pick a seafood sushi topping for your sushi such as tuna, smoked salmon, tobiko.
Sushi rolls can have a sauces drizzled on top of them for a beautiful finish to a sushi bar such as unagi sauce, spicy mayo, teriyaki sauce, or hot sauce.
Serve you sushi bar with some sake as a treat for your guests.
sushi rolls
sashimi
temaki – sushi cones
tempura
nigiri sushi
Satay
Satay is an appetizer food you can serve at an afternoon wedding reception.
Satay skewers are meat that has been barbequed, and then served with an accompanying creamy peanut sauce for dipping.
You can make small chicken skewers that are portioned for a wedding as an appetizer, so it’s not too big for your guests.
chicken
beef
lamb
Greek Food
Greek food includes lighter foods that can be eaten as an appetizer, or as a meal, but isn’t too filling. Therefore Greek food works well for an afternoon, 2 pm wedding reception.
You can serve small pita wraps filled with vegetables, tzatziki sauce, chicken or beef.
If you’re wanting more of an appetizer style, you can serve small portioned Greek salad with pita bread, and few meat skewers for your guests to choose from.
pita wraps
Greek salad
pita bread with tzatziki sauce
meat skewers with tzatziki sauce
Crostini’s
Crostini appetizers are small pieces of toasted baguette with indulgent toppings.
You can serve crostini’s with a few different toppings so your guests can pick and choose their favorites to try.
Crostini’s can be topped with Havarti, prosciutto, fresh pesto, ricotta, avocado and more to create alluring appetizers for your wedding reception.
cheese and prosciutto with arugula and balsamic reduction
fresh pesto mixed with diced tomatoes, topped with grated parmesan cheese
ricotta, sliced pears or apples, walnuts, drizzled with honey
mashed avocado topped with grilled garlic shrimp
watermelon bruschetta topped with balsamic reduction
goat cheese, apricot preserves, sprinkled with pistachios and mint leaves
garlic and dill cream cheese, slices of cucumber and radishes, topped with smoked salmon
Wedding macarons can be flavored with a variety of flavors including champagne, pina colada, white chocolate rose, and salted caramel.
Wedding macarons can be colored white, gold, or made to be a specific color to match your wedding colors.
You can even color them blue for a “something blue” theme.
Mini Mille Feuille
Mille feuille is a dessert that is made up of 3 layers of puff pastry.
In between the puff pastry layers is piped vanilla custard. The vanilla custard is made with actual vanilla beans so you can see the tiny vanilla beans in the custard.
Mille feuille has a layer of royal icing on the top of it, with a couple of decorative lines of dark chocolate.
The dark chocolate is made a bit more fancy by using slits with a knife, giving mille feuille its signature look.
Mini mille feuille is a tiny verison of mill feuille and can be served in cupcake liners for an easy finger food dessert.
Chocolate Covered Strawberries
Chocolate covered strawberries are simple, yet the fruit and chocolate combination makes them irresistible!
You can decorate chocolate covered strawberries using a contrasting color of chocolate (white or dark chocolate depending on what kind of chocolate you dipped your strawberries in).
You can drizzle chocolate in lines, or add chocolate scrolls on top.
You can even add sprinkles or a bit of gold dust for more of a fancy look to the chocolate covered strawberries when served at a wedding dessert table.
Mini Cupcakes
Mini cupcakes are a delicious mini version of a cupcake that gives people 1 bite of cake with icing.
Since mini cupcakes are bite sized, there’s no mess with them! They work exceptionally well for a mini dessert table.
You can make a couple of different kinds of mini cupcakes for a wedding dessert table – a lighter flavor like vanilla, and a heavier flavor like red velvet work well together as a variety.
Mini Lemon Tarts
Mini lemon tarts are made by creating pie crust, and then baking the pie crust into tart shells.
The tart shells are filled with lemon cream. Lemon cream is has a buttery, citrusy flavor.
On top of the lemon cream, add a couple of fresh raspberries.
Drizzle a little white chocolate ganache and they’re ready to be served!
Mini lemon tarts are an easy finger food dessert that your guests can enjoy in a couple of bites.
Chocolate Fountain
Chocolate fountains look mesmerizing on a wedding dessert table.
Chocolate fountains are easy to set up and get going.
To prepare the foods to be dipped into the chocolate fountain is another story…
Everything needs to be cut up into bite sized pieces, including fruit, rice krispies, angel food cake, etc.
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Fall weddings have a special rustic, golden glow about them.
Your fall wedding cake will finish off the night to your perfect big day!
Fall weddings cake flavors include vanilla chai, red velvet cake, Irish cream cake, black forest cake, dulche de leche, hazelnut chocolate cake, and chocolate cake.
Chantilly cake is made by first baking a vanilla cake base.
A Chantilly cake has a unique frosting that is made by combining whipped cream, mascarpone cheese and cream cheese together to a buttercream frosting base.
The layers of cake are made by creating a berry syrup, such as raspberry syrup, and then placing the unique cream frosting on top of the syrup.
Fresh berries are place into the cream frosting, making this beautiful and colorful layered cake.
Some of the berries that are too large, like strawberries, are cut in half to have an even layered cake.
When the Chantilly cake is sliced, you can see the colorful red and blue berries throughout the layered cake.
The Chantilly cake is covered in the cream frosting all over the sides and top of the cake.
Chantilly cake is usually topped with a few fresh berries, giving it an eye catching look to it.
Irish cream cake is made by adding Irish cream and cocoa powder to a buttermilk vanilla cake base. In between the layers of cake is Irish cream infused whipped cream.
The cake is covered in Irish cream flavored buttercream icing.
Using the drip method, chocolate ganache is dripped from the top of the cake down the sides of the Irish cream cake.
Cookies and cream cake is made by adding cocoa powder and coffee to cake.
The cake is made with buttermilk, making it extra creamy.
The cookies and cream cake is iced with a cookie Italian buttercream frosting.
How to pick a fall wedding cake flavor
Pick a day to go to see your wedding cake baker.
They will arrange for you to taste test usually 3 different types of cakes.
Some of the wedding cake bakers even let you try their cake fillings, so you can mix and match your cake bases and fillings to make it completely your own.
What to put on top of a fall wedding cake
eucalyptus clippings
white roses
raspberries
maple leaves
cinnamon sticks
berries dipped in sugar
Picking your fall wedding cake flavor is a difficult decision, and you won’t be able to please everyone.
Try to taste test at least 2-4 flavors of wedding cakes before deciding.
You can pick the cake, filling, and the frosting for your wedding cake to make it unique, just for you!
Enjoying your wedding cake on your big day is the perfect finish to the evening of one the most memorable days of your life!
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Summer wedding cake flavors are light, airy, fruity, and decadent. It’s best to try to pick a type of wedding cake that will fit the theme of your wedding.
If you’re going for more of a rustic theme to your wedding, a black forest cake or carrot cake will be the perfect cake flavor for your wedding.
If you’re going for more of a modern, princess theme for your wedding cake, a classic vanilla buttercream cake, or red velvet cake would go well for your wedding cake flavor.
How to choose a wedding cake flavor
Wedding cake bakers will have you taste test your cake beforehand for a small fee. It’s worth the extra bit of money to try out your cake before you commit to it.
Since a wedding cake can only be one flavor, the other option is to select 1-2 flavors for wedding cupcakes instead. If you’re having trouble picking a single flavor, opting for the cupcakes with multiple flavors will be a better option for you.
One thing to remember about selecting your wedding cake, is that not everyone will love it. That’s ok!
Also, many people may be full from dinner, and can’t possibly eat another bite.
Make sure to bring a large airtight container for your extra cake to bring home. You can place it in the freezer and eat it when you like.
Chocolate cake is made by adding instant coffee and cocoa powder to a buttermilk cake base.
The next layer is the chocolate mousse, which is made by adding gelatin to warm heavy cream and chocolate.
The gelatin helps to stabilize the chocolate mousse for using it in a cake. The chocolate mousse cake is topped with chocolate ganache to give it a rich chocolatey flavor.
White chocolate raspberry cake is made by baking a vanilla cake base.
The cake is filled with raspberry and lemon sugar sauce. The cake is covered in white chocolate buttercream which is made by adding melted white chocolate to buttercream icing.
Chantilly cake is made by first baking a vanilla cake base.
A Chantilly cake has a unique frosting that is made by combining whipped cream, mascarpone cheese and cream cheese together to a buttercream frosting base.
The layers of cake are made by creating a berry syrup, such as raspberry syrup, and then placing the unique cream frosting on top of the syrup.
Fresh berries are place into the cream frosting, making this beautiful and colorful layered cake. Some of the berries that are too large, like strawberries, are cut in half to have an even layered cake.
When the Chantilly cake is sliced, you can see the colorful red and blue berries throughout the layered cake.
The Chantilly cake is covered in the cream frosting all over the sides and top of the cake. Chantilly cake is usually topped with a few fresh berries, giving it an eye catching look to it.
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Wedding cake fillings are what ties the cake flavors together.
The outer layer of the cake is icing, and the cake itself is the sponge part of the cake.
The cake filling is what brings the cake together by filling in between the layers of cake. The cake filling should compliment the flavors of the outer layer of icing, and the sponge cake.
You can choose to add a little bit more flavor to your wedding cake through selecting a fruit, coffee, or chocolate cake filling. This adds a hint of flavor to your cake, and will be the perfect way to finish off you wedding day.
Typically you can taste test your cake fillings, cake icings, and cake from your wedding cake baker to make sure you’re making the best choice for your wedding day.
What is a cake filling
A cake filling is the part of the cake that fills in between the layers of cake.
Fillings can be made of buttercream, pastry cream, mousse, jam, or whipped cream.
What is the best filling to be added into a cake
The best filling to be added into a cake is vanilla custard. Vanilla custard is one of the most popular, rich cake fillings
lemon poppy seed cupcakes topped with raspberry buttercream icing
chai cupcakes
vanilla hazelnut cupcakes
How many cupcake flavors do you need for a wedding
You’ll want to select a minimum of 2 different wedding cupcake flavors to appeal to the majority of your guests for your wedding.
If you’re selecting a champagne or moscato flavor, try picking a non-alcoholic flavor for your other guests that may want something else.
How many cupcakes do you need for a wedding
You’ll need a minimum of 1 cupcake per person, but allow for at least 1-2 cupcakes per person. Some guests will eat 3 cupcakes, but some will not eat any. This will give you enough cupcakes for your wedding by allowing for 1-2 cupcakes per guest.
Make sure to bring an airtight container to your wedding for any leftover cupcakes you have at the end of the night. You can freeze them and eat them after you come back from your honeymoon.
What are the most popular wedding cupcake flavors
The most popular, classic wedding cupcake flavors are vanilla, red velvet, and chocolate.
How far in advance can you make cupcakes for a wedding
Cupcakes are best the same day they are made. Therefore, you should be picking up your cupcakes the same day as your wedding, or the day before. Cupcakes age very quickly, and can become dense or tough to eat the longer they sit. If you do pick up your cupcakes the day before, place them in the fridge overnight. This will slow the aging process of your wedding cupcakes.
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