Wedding Wednesday: Pros and Cons of a White Wedding Cake

Many brides choose to go with all white for their dress, flowers, and cake.  Pure white wedding cakes can be beautiful, but they come with a cost. In order to have a pure white buttercream, no real butter can be used(as butter is an off white) or natural vanilla(brown). If you're looking for a pure white cake you have to use an artificial vanilla flavoring and crisco or other forms of lard to create your buttercream. If you don't want to compromise on color another option would be to use white fondant on the base of your cake. If you don't want to compromise on taste you have to sacrifice on the color and your wedding cake will be off white. Take a look at both these options….

Real buttercream(off white)

Fondant base (pure white) 

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