Non-Traditional Wedding Desserts: Wedding Pie
The Delicious Trend to Ditch the Cake in Favor of Pie
Mar 28, 2009
When planning your wedding, there’s one thing that will be seen as essential that will take up a sizeable chunk of your budget, and it’s not your wedding dress – it’s the wedding cake. For centuries, it has been a tradition to have at least one cake at a wedding, and for those die-hard traditionalists, no wedding without a groom’s cake will do. Many couples don’t care for cake at all, but get them to appease guests, to have in the wedding photos, or just for the sake of having a cake. For those who prefer not to have a cake at their wedding, you now have many alternatives, including the wedding pie.
More Options and Less Money
Wedding pies are a fabulous option because they are versatile and inexpensive. You can have a wedding pie display that would envy any tiered wedding cake, and the flavor, texture, and style choices are endless. There is a pie for everyone and every style: vegan pies, fruit filled, cream, meringue, crumb, silk, chocolate, and so many more.
Don’t think you can’t tailor the look of your wedding pies to the look of your wedding, because you certainly can. If you were going to have a white tiered cake but decide to have pie instead, you can have several cream-topped pies that are decorated with rosettes, flowers that coordinate with your wedding colors, fancy piped swirls or your initials, and you can even top one of your pies with a bride and groom statue. Pieces of pie crust can be made into special shapes or initials as well. You can also have meringue and cream pies topped with pieces of gold leaf or gold dust for a glamorous touch.
As far as display options, you can purchase a tiered cake stand to place your pies on, arrange them on a buffet table that’s decorated in your wedding colors, and if you plan to have only one kind of pie, place one at each guest table. Even the trend of serving individual wedding cakes can be replicated by serving individual wedding pies.
Replacing the Groom’s Cake
The traditional groom’s cake can also be replaced by a wedding pie. The groom’s cake is usually chocolate- as an alternative, try a chocolate silk or cream pie, and decorate it with chocolate-dipped strawberries. The groom’s pie doesn’t have to be limited to a certain flavor, and in fact it is best if he picks out whichever flavor pie he prefers.
Focus on Flavor
Finding someone to bake your wedding pies is easier than finding someone to make a wedding cake. You may want to try one of your local bakeries, a pie-baking relative, or if you make a mean pie, bake them yourself. The best part of having pie instead of wedding cake: the focus is on the taste. Wedding cakes are notorious for looking better than they actually taste, but with pies, flavor rules hands-down.
Weddings should be about personalization and celebrating the new couple’s life together, so don’t be stuck serving cake when you’d rather have pie. Do your wedding how you want to, and your memories (as well as the dessert) will be sweeter.
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