Wedding Cheese Cakes

We are having one, in addition to a 'normal' wedding cake to go alongside our buffet, to add to the buffet and because we love cheese!!

The quality and variety of cheese was really important to me, as was having someone who could recommend something based on what we liked - which is why we went with a specialist cheese supplier, even though that meant we would have to decorate it ourselves.

IMHO if I was doing what you were planning to do, I would link up with a specialist cheese supplier like ours (www.thecheeseshed.com), who could provide advice about the cheese and then you can make your money by providing a decorating service.

We paid £116 for the cheese for 60 ppl, which is a 4 layer cake.

HTH!

We considered doing this but were just going to go to costco and get them at discounted prices! We didn't in the end tho so no clue as to how much it would have come to!!

I'm not having one because i love all things sweet (even though i can't eat cake!), but I know a few people who have!

The main reasons for having them were either a) they were both more savoury people, or b) they had as an addition to a buffet because they love cheese!

For all that I've seen they've been really good quality cheese, and I know that variety was important to them. I think people would pay more for better quality, but as far as I know they paid less than for a wedding cake (although again the prices of these vary dramatically so it's a hard comparison to make).

I think they're a good idea, and are getting more and more popular as far as i know, but i think it's important to know about your cheeses!

HTH a bit ?

We are thinking about having one, currently looking for inspiration!! we want something a bit different as a cake doesnt appeal, and it would be the perfect addition to our evening cornish pasties! quality and variety of cheese is important but i know that seeing cakes as a 'whole' has helped me think about what i want and how they look together. from what i've seen and the research i've done, i would be looking to spend between £150 and £220 for a cake to serve 150, which is a lot less than the 'usual' cakes we were considering. i would prefer to decorate it myself to be honest, so i can make sure it ties in with colour schemes etc. hth!

Would have loved to have one - I LOVE cheese! Choice and quality would be more important to me than dressing...I could easily do that myself. Personally I would have it instead of cake but h2b would probably have wanted both. We decided not to have one mainly on cost - we've only got 40 coming to the wedding and I think it would have been too much for such a small wedding (certainly if we'd had a few different cheeses). Also we're getting married so far away the logistics would be a bit of a pain. We're not having a cake to cut at all...just some cake to serve in the evening. I'm not a cake person and don't like the idea of cutting a cake...so we've skipped this for our wedding.

We did, alongside a very traditional fruit cake.

It's 4 years ago now. We had 6 tiers, and chose welsh cheeses going for a variety of colours and flavours, a blue, a soft cheese, a hard cheese, a goat's cheese and so on in different sizes to resemble a stacked cake..

We bought for a fab local cheese shop, tasting a few weeks before and ordering it to be delivered to the reception venue.

We decorated it with fresh fruit and cut it at the same time as the fruit cake, and it was on the table for people to help themselves to during the evening.

I think we paid about £65.

My husband is not a fruit cake fan and we both love cheese, at the time it was a really unusual idea and a big talking point.

When I first read this title I thought you were talking about cheesecakes, as in lemon, chocolate... cheesecakes, rather than a savoury cake made of cheeses such as Stilton and Cheddar!

Was going to say that my sister had a cheesecake wedding cake at her wedding at the weekend: 3 tiers - vanilla, chocolate, vanilla. We had it as the dessert and it was yummy!

But as you were talking about a wedding cake made of Double Gloucester and Brie that comment isn't very helpful... ?

Well thank you all for the wonderful responses. Very helpful, thanks.

It's interesting to read a number of you chose to source your own cheese and do a DIY cake. Also interesting to read that some of you chose to decorate yourselves.

We were wondering how useful it would be to be able to buy a bespoke fully decorated, sourced and designed cheese cake. Maybe provided in a very similar way to a traditional cake - full consultaion before it's made and designed, cake delivered to the venue and supplied fully decorated and on a cake stand. We even wondered about supplying the crackers and maybe some really noce chutney to go with the "cake"?

Hi, I think it's an interesting idea, maybe the more bespoke method would appeal as you say with the crackers, and a few different pickles/chutneys. I think that the thought of paying someone to decorate it might be offputting, as I've seen pics of them, and they are literally 3 types of cheese stood on top of each other. Maybe a few grapes, hey presto. If you had some images of beautifully decorated ones, then it may change peoples minds.

If we went with one, it would be as an addition to the "real" cake, probably for the evening buffet. But then again, our cake is a chocolate cheesecake in 4 tiers!!

Hope it helps

Michele

We had a cheese cake in place of a traditional sweet wedding cake. We did it for a couple of reasons 1) to provide the main focus of our evening buffet and 2) to do something a bit different that would get people talking. Also, I'm not personally convinced that a traditional wedding cake is money well spent. I can never remember eating one at a wedding yet I know loads of people who go mad for cheese.

We also bought the cheese rounds from a specialist cheese supplier and decorated it ourselves. However, this was harder work than at first you may think and quite a lot of hassle so I definitley would have considered ordering one in. Had the price been right.

The quality of the cheese was very good and we really wanted this to be the case so people didn't think we were total cheapskates!

We were thinking of somethiing like this:

I should please make it clear that these are examples, not cakes we have done - but we want to do similar ones

Wow - those look amazing!!! I havn't seen a cheese cake decorated in that way before. Personally because we are on such a low budget I wouldn't pay for someone to do that, but I do love them!

Now they do look loevely. I can imagine one of those as a sweet cake replacement. Are they all Brie type cheese then? Or are they covered in something to make them all white? The ones I've seen are a bit more like this: http://www.cheese-factor.co.uk/images/Cake2.jpg

I'm sure people wuld pay for the whole set up for somehting along those lines.

They are indeed soft cheeses. But this style of cake can easily be done in harder cheese:

We are using this company that you are showing the pictures from . We are having a bespoke 6 tier cake which we have helped to design the decoration for. but ours will look more like the first picture with the silver base and we are having pink gerberas coming down one side and orange and yellow ribbon round tiers 1 and 2.

We are paying just under £600 but that will feed 120 people.

They also deliver and set it up on the day. We did think about doing it ourselves but decided it was too much hassle to store the cheese and set it up so we didn't mind paying a bit more.

Those looks too lovely to be eaten! lol. if i had that as a wedding cake, i'd just stare at it and won't even dare to touch it! lol.

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The ones decorated with flowers or fruits always look magnificent.

Some great ideas here...

http://www.houseofcheese.co.uk/acatalog/wedding.html

Have to show this thread to h2b. He's a BIG cheese fan!!!

We've had a new photo session done recently at The Cheese Shed, so if you haven't visited recently, do pay us a quick visit for some really gorgeous looking examples (in my humble opinion) ...

www.TheCheeseShed.com

Oh I got all excited then - I thought you meant cheesecake..?