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M&S Cakes

  • 23-09-2013 9:02am
    #1
    stargazer 68
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    Just wondering has anyone used the M&S fruit cake for their wedding and decorated it themselves? Any pics that I can steal inspiration from?


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  • #2
    solerina
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    The M&S cakes are already decorated and look lovely as they are...a bit of ribbon and a few fresh flowers are all you need (they taste quite nice too).


  • #3
    stargazer 68
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    I thought they were just plain with white ribbon around them? Looking to put some sugar flowers on but not too much


  • #4
    solerina
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    They have some small swirls on them...if your not too far from Newry you shud look at ordering one online and collecting it in Newry...they have loads on their UK site that we cant get in the ROI !!!


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    Moonbeam
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    my mother did and the florist decorated it:)


  • #6
    stargazer 68
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    Moonbeam wrote: »
    my mother did and the florist decorated it:)

    Yep thought about that too. Couple of flowers that are in the bouquets. Found a shop in town that sells sugar flowers etc and they do cake decorating classes - if I go in there they might suggest something.

    Sis was at a wedding last week and she said the cake was beautiful and it was cut and put on the tables and none of it was touched. She would rather spend the money on something else now.


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  • #7
    Moonbeam
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    I do not like traditional fruitcake at all,we had choc biscuit cake as one of the layers,lemon drizzle as another and I think the small layer was fruitcake.
    There was none left at the end!


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    pwurple
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    Dovies wrote: »
    Yep thought about that too. Couple of flowers that are in the bouquets. Found a shop in town that sells sugar flowers etc and they do cake decorating classes - if I go in there they might suggest something.

    Sis was at a wedding last week and she said the cake was beautiful and it was cut and put on the tables and none of it was touched. She would rather spend the money on something else now.

    Not everyone likes fruit cake. People tend to go for mixed layers these days to try to accommodate that. It's tricky for bakers, as fruit cake can last weeks and be done in advance, but sponges are not so forgiving.


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    stargazer 68
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    Dovies wrote: »
    Sis was at a wedding last week and she said the cake was beautiful and it was cut and put on the tables and none of it was touched. She would rather spend the money on something else now.

    It wasn't a fruit cake. There was 2 sponge and 1 choc biscuit.


  • #10
    pwurple
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    Dovies wrote: »
    It wasn't a fruit cake. There was 2 sponge and 1 choc biscuit.

    Shame. They must have stuffed the guests to the gills with the dinner. :) We used ours as the dessert. Chocolate cake.

    Well, that was the plan, until the venue placed it in a hot place, and the icing melted off it....


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    January
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    :eek: Hope they compensated you for that pwurple!

    I don't know if I'd go for a cake... I'd love a cheese cake... or a profiterole tower!


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  • #12
    ComputerKing
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    January wrote: »
    :eek: Hope they compensated you for that pwurple!

    I don't know if I'd go for a cake... I'd love a cheese cake... or a profiterole tower!

    You should get a Croquembouche there great saw a huge 1.5m one a a French friends wedding and it tasted and looked amazing.


  • #13
    krankykitty
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    I had m&s cake from off the shelf decorated with flowers, but we also had a chocolate biscuit cake in the hotel kitchen made by my sister that was cut up and put out along with the Mark's fruit cake. Went down a treat and meant my sister didn't need to make the cake look fancy.


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