GTKY 1st Year Anniversary

schnena77 · May 2012

So DH and just celebrated our 1st year anniversary and had a brand new cake made by the baker who made our wedding cake (something offered when we ordered our cake). So yummy!!!! Lemon cake with lemon fill.

So on your 1 year did you eat unthawed cake, new cake or none at all. If you had cake what kind was it?

EFD32 · May 2012

We did the same thing! Our baker on our one year made an exact replica of the top tier of our cake and we had that! They had said not to freeze ours because it wouldn't taste so good. I am glad we went new! Ours was vanilla cake with raspberry cream on the inside covered in a vanilla buttercream with all different fondant (sp) fall colored leaves.

maggie2324 · May 2012

None at all. We were married out in Vegas (not at a quickie chapel, but a normal wedding). The hotel where we had our reception made our cake and we obviously couldn't take any home or have them make anything for our 1 year.

Shayliz · May 2012

We had the bakery remake the cake for us. Top tier was carrot cake with strawberries and vanilla buttercream. Bottom tier was chocolate cake with chocolate mousse and chocolate buttercream.

Excitedtostart · May 2012

We did not.

We didn't save any of our cake, because we moved 1,800 miles away the day after we got back from the honeymoon.

I barely remember our cake, but I think it was several layers of different kinds of cake and frosting From what I remember it was quite good.

My DH completed his last year of school (4 years undergrad, 4 years post grad, 5 years post grad training, 1 year specialty training), so we took a big arse trip to Hawai'i and gorged ourselves on amazing food.

So no cake, but we had an amazing time!

jenn0620 · May 2012

we had unthawed cake, and it was really good! My mom and I do cakes so it was one we had done together it was vanilla with buttercream frosting and fondant snowflakes. Like I said it was yummy even a year later.

tmsetzer83 · May 2012

We ate unthawed cake. We had seriously wrapped it and figured we'd give it a shot! It was actually pretty good. It was white with raspberry filling.

brookelynpaisley · May 2012

We did the same thing, OP. Our baker made us a replica tier of our original cake. We were both weirded out at the thought of eating year-old cake. Ours was cookies and cream. We did have lemon with lemon as a tier in our wedding cake though, it was so delicious! I would have chosen that for the anniversary, but it's also DH's birthday, so I let him choose

Niki64 · May 2012

My DH's grandma is an amazing baker and made our cake for us. She froze it for us...when we got back from our trip we got home and ate the topper, it tasted great! No weird taste at all

. Happy Belated Anniversary to you!

tombomb84 · May 2012

We ate the cake from our wedding day after it thawed...and it was just as good as the day we got married

vanillajen · May 2012

We had no cake! Not only did we not take any to freeze, but we were actually on a vaca in Maine and so we couldn't have eaten any anyways. We did have some scrumptious desserts at an Italian restaurant though!

BethanyB2609 · May 2012

We ate unthawed cake and it was surprisingly good! It must have been wrapped very well because it didn't taste old. We had a 5 tier cake that consisted of bavarian cream, pecan praline, and chocolate filled layers. Our top tier was pecan praline.

pulga131 · May 2012

We moved (across a few states) before our 1st anniversary. So I froze 2 slices of cake and moved them. MH did not want to eat it but I made him try it and it was still just as good as on our wedding day! We had a white cake with fondant icing and bavarian cream filling.

Happy anniversary

Killer Tomato · May 2012

We wrapped and froze our top tier, but we ate it pretty much right after the honeymoon. It was chocolate/vanilla swirl with apricot filling and chocolate ganache icing. How can you just let something like that sit in your freezer for a year and get all freezer burned? Besides, it was taking up valuable freezer space.

On our anniversary, we went to the restaurant that catered the wedding and ordered some of the food we had at the wedding.

Wish Upon A Star · May 2012

It's actually a funny story!

DH and I had a destination wedding in Florida. I carried the cake the entire flight home- it was in perfect condition... Until we made it to our hometown and my dad swerved across 3 lanes and my cake totally collapsed. We ate the messed up cake that day-

We had a replica made for our anniversary.

LyssRob · May 2012

I saved our top layer for our first anniversary, but a month or so beforehand, we got a new fridge and my husband accidentally threw it out when he was cleaning out the old one. We didn't realize till we went to take it out to defrost it. I was ridiculously sad, but we went to the grocery store and bought a new cake and pretended it was special.

MsGMChick · May 2012

We spent our first anniversary in MX at the resort we went to on our honeymoon. The resort gave us a mini cake but we didn't have any from our baker.

kathrynlo · May 2012

We actually brought home Cheeseake Factory vanilla bean cheesecake on our 1st anniversary. But we did have the top layer of the cake frozen, we thawed it earlier that week and tried it the night of our anniversary. Yuck! It was so gross and I was so glad to have stopped to pick up that cheesecake!

mrsjollybrown · May 2012

On our 1year we had a fresh mini cake baked for us. It was chocolate cake with white chocolate icing. So yummy. We were lucky cause we were afraid to eat the improperly frozen cake top. Lol

kristykay123 · May 2012

Happy anniversary!

I bought a special ice cream cake instead of eating our old one. The top on our original was too big to keep and I don't think we would have eaten it anyway. It was white with raspberry filling.

violetmarie61516 · May 2012

DH has family that owns a wonderful bakery and they did our cake. They also made us our anniversary cake new. We had the same as one of the tiers on our original cake. Yellow traditional cake with vanilla added, white butter cream frosting and the filling (my favorite) was bavarian cream with chocolate chips and baileys! Absolutely amazing!

JBDamonM · May 2012

We ate our top tier!

We had to cut it up in order to fit it in Tupperware so it didn't have the pretty shape but it was pretty damn good if I do say so!

It was chocolate cake with raspberry mouse filling and a white frosting, and it was amazing. Our cake was rotating, that and the other tiers were vanilla with chocolate mouse filling.

Drooling at the thought. I keep meaning to get back to the bakery that did our wedding cake but it's such an inconvenient location that I never make it there!

RunningwithPearls · May 2012

We ate our unthawed top tier. Vanilla pound cake with raspberry filling and buttercream icing. It was deeee-lish.

katib77 · May 2012

We took the top out of the freezer. We had multi layered cake. Top half was Vanilla, bottom half was chocolate. With Vanilla Butter cream and a raspberry glaze in between the vanilla & chocolate layers. It was really, really good on our wedding. A year later? Not so much. It was dry...except for Butter Creme. Nothing can kill butter creme. We each had a slice and through the rest out. But that's a cute idea. Maybe I will see if the bakery will make us a mini replica for our third anniversary this summer.

emmypants · May 2012

Lemon poppyseed. It was amazing!!

xladybassx · May 2012

We had ice cream cake! Yum!

Ms H13 · May 2012

I honestly don't remember - although I know that we didn't freeze anything. I don't remember if we had any cake - makes me want some though!

FutureMrsTowns · May 2012

well, we didn't do it ON our anniversary, b/c he was deployed, but the day he came home we had the top layer from our wedding cake which I thawed out for two days before that

amd1982 · May 2012

We went on a trip to Italy, Greece and Spain for our one year (it was a splurge since we didn't go on a lavish honeymoon) and so we had amazing desserts over there instead! I think we had part of our wedding cake either before we left or right when we came home, I forget....

EmilyB15 · May 2012

We ate our the top layer of our cake which had been frozen. It was half chocolate and half vanilla cake with buttercream filling and icing. It tasted ok. Obviously not as good as a fresh cake. It was fun for the novelty of eating our wedding cake, but not something I would ever do again!

mrskitton · May 2012

We ate our thawed wedding cake and it was still delicious!!!! White almond with raspberry cream cheese filling!

psych05 · May 2012

We ate what was left of our wedding cake on the honeymoon. Big Smile

Our wedding cake was all chocolate, half filled with raspberry and half with peanut butter, covered in chocolate buttercream. We had a dessert reception, so for our first anniversary I went back to the bakery and got a couple of the goodies we served. I did buy fresh chocolate cupcakes, and they were amazing.

twistsandturnsto2 · May 2012

My MIL wrapped and froze our cake topper for us, and it was SO good one year later! The fondant didn't make it, but the cake, filling, and frosting inside was just as good as it had been at the wedding.

Our cake was lemon with raspberry filling and buttercream frosting. We also saved a bottle of champagne from the wedding to have with our cake

notquiteblushing · May 2012

We didn't get to eat any cake at our wedding which I regret because we agonized over choosing it in the first place and it was supposed to taste so good! We only did the cutting the cake thing and had a bit of icing. So we did thaw it out at one year but it tasted weird. Oh well. We went back to our wedding venue for dinner on our first anniversary and that was really nice.

amh612 · May 2012

My DH and I got married down south in the state he grew up in and not near where we were living so my in-laws took the top layer home to freeze it. Somehow it made its way up to the east coast and into our freezer (I think my in-laws drove it up in a cooler?). Anyway, we did have a bit of it on our 1st anniversary and I have to say it was kind of gross. Since the bakery that made our cake was in another state, I did have a small cake made at a different bakery in the same flavor with different icing (no fondant). Our original cake was vanilla almond on the bottom, red velvet in the middle, and carrot on top. The aniversary cake was carrot with buttercream icing.

This was a fun question schnena77!

CousinVicki · May 2012

our first year anniversary was in 2005, i honestly don't remember HA. i am pretty sure we didnt do any of that frozen cake stuff

megs3084 · May 2012

We thawed the 2 pieces of cake that we had from the wedding. We had chocolate cake with strawberry filling, layered with yellow cake with fudge. Surprisingly it was pretty good. I am thinking about getting a small layer cake for our 2 year anniversary next month

melgeorge7189 · May 2012

We were married in the DR, so we didn't bring any cake home. Not that it matters anyway, DH took one bite the day of. He absolutely refuses to eat carbs. I probably had some cake on my own that day though haha.

kflynn81 · May 2012

We risked food poisoning and ate the original cake that had been frozen in my MIL's freezer all year

Surprisingly, it wasn't half bad! It was just a plain yellow cake with buttercream frosting.

ksfrye · May 2012

Congrats on your 1 year anniversary!

We ate thawed cake and it was really good! We enjoyed it with a bottle of champagne also left over from our wedding. It was a special night.

imwithrebel · May 2012

We thawed our cake and it was awful. I think we both took about 2 bites before looking at each other and asking "Was that enough to count?" It had a strawberry filling with buttercream icing.

We have kept the tradition and for each of our anniversaries, we have bought or I have baked a fancy cake. I should start thinking about what we'll have this August.

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