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i think that is a very original idea. however, i dont think it will work. even if you had the cake out for five minutes prior to cutting, it would still take a while to reach the guests at their tables. why dont you do a cake and ice cream on the side? best of both worlds.
Why don't you do a smaller ice cream cake and then also have a "regular" cake? Best of both worlds!
I've got to say I do think it would work. Assuming that DQ could produce this for you (only they can answer that question), you are't concerned about really fancy esthetics, and you only want to show it for the cake cutting and not all day I think it's feasible.
In my experience when you buy a DQ cake you have to take it out of the freezer and let it sit at room temperature for 10-20 minutes before serving so that you can cut into it, right? So there you go, no biggie! As long as you've got the freezer space and your caterer agrees to cut it up your good to go.
I think it's a cute personal touch that will probably save you a bundle over a traditional cake.
How about having the groom's cake be the DQ cake? Then it won't ahve to be that large, will easily fit in a freezer, and you'll still have a regular cake as a focal point, to sit out during the reception.
My future brother in law had a Ben & Jerry's ice cream cake for their wedding - and it worked out great! They brought it out for just a few minutes before the cutting and it was still solid when it made it to the tables...everyone loved it. I say go for it!
FUN! COOL! LOVE this idea! can totally be done- I say go for it! and so what if it melts a little bit- it will still be delish and many people will be so surprised by an ice cream cake
One word answer: YUMMY!!!
My family & my co-workers at my last job love ice-cream cake. We used to get one for someone's b-day at work at least once a month (Ben & Jerry's or Coldstone Creamery). We used to keep the cake in a freezer until a couple of minutes before the b-day party & well, the cakes never got time to melt because they would be sliced & eaten so fast. So I would say just keep it refrigerated right up until your cake-cutting, then make sure your knife(cake cutting tool?) is HOT (have someone keep it in HOT water beforehand) so you can slice through it well...then Voila! cake-yumminess for everybody.
i love this idea! my fiance LOVES LOVES ice cream cake and would we would do this if it is feasible. any one else been to a wedding that it was served at? (my wedding is outdoors though, June, Texas)...hmmm :(
This is a brilliant idea!
I'd say if you have a freezer readily available, go for it!
It'd be easy to assemble the cake at the reception site at the last minute. You could just have them decorated and stored in their separate boxes for transport.
My fiance just mentioned this! I think it would be different, and I don't think you would have to worry about melting unless it's going to be outside in incredible heat. Any time I've had ice cream cake, it had to set out for a few minutes just to be soft enough to cut and was eaten before it had a chance to melt. If DQ isn't able to make it like you want, I think having it as a grooms cake is another great option.
If you are going to have a layered cake, you could do ice cream as one layer and regular cake on the rest. That way you could serve the ice cream part faster without it melting. Though if the cake was frozen previously, then in my experience they do take awhile to thaw. Sounds really good!
I never thought this would work until I saw it done at a friend's wedding.
They had the bottm layer a large, plain white ice cream cake from DQ and then sat the more traditional wedding cake on top of that. The traditional cake was there when the guests went to the reception, but in a sneak move the ice cream layer was placed right before they cut the cake so that it wouldn't melt. Guests had the option to choose (and most took both) and it was great success!
I love this idea! Can you do a fake cake for the reception, and just have the ice cream cake in the kitchen freezer? (Similar to how people save money with sheet cakes.) You wouldn't have to fit a layer cake in the freezer then. That way you can display the cake as long as you want but still get your DQ.
I think it's totally doable. Like cbgg mentioned, the cake needs to sit out for 20 minutes before cutting it or else it's really tough to cut. You could always do a small two tier cake for cake cutting pictures and then have more ice cream cake in the back ready to cut and be served right after the cake cutting. Kinda like the styrofoam cake/sheet cake swap.
You could totally do this. Just make sure you communicate very clearly to the staff that will be handling your cake. I was at a wedding that had an ice cream cake and even though the bride told the catering manager it was never communicated to the staff. Their ice cream cake was brought out to display during the dinner course and was melty around the edges by the time it was served to guests. But all the guests loved it, despite it being a little melty.
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Can I be a guest at your wedding? j/k. I totally love love love DQ cakes- the oreos and fudge in the middle= Heaven! If there is a way to do it then do it! Also, you may want to seperate the tiers of the cake so they fit in the freezer and cut them 10 minutes before. Ice cream cake doesn't melt very fast at all- has anyone actually tried to cut into one? It's hard.
Well thank you. I'm going to go out and screw up my diet now by getting a DQ cake. So so yummy!
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I had a fake cake, and sheet Cold Stone ice cream cakes. I made sure that the reception places we interviewed had room for the cake in the freezer (wasn't an issue anywhere).
I think you could bring it out for just cutting, but I was so easily distracted I'm glad I didn't. Its amazing how the time flies by.
FYI my mom made the fake cake a couple weeks before the wedding - fondant keeps pretty good.
My cold stone cake was $2 a slice - $1 for the cake, $1 for the cutting. I was surprised how well it worked out. We priced Baskin Robbins too and Coldstone was cheaper!
We had an August wedding and they loved the ice cream cake - go for it....
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I LOVE the idea of a wedding cake! Matter of fact, we are doing one through Coldstone Creamery. Their wedding cakes alternate cake, ice cream, cake, ice cream, and they will even tier it for us! One thing to consider is that our reception site would not cut a full ice cream cake, but said they would do it with the alternating cake/ice cream. I don't get it...I just think the coordinator was a little nervous about having her staff cutting it.
I'm definitely going to go for it if it's possible. I'd love to have it layered though, which would be the hard part in putting it together. I was thinking if it were just separate cakes of different sizes, they could just stack them and freeze it really well... If not, I'll definitely go with the sheet ice cream cake idea on the side 
Thanks for your input, everyone!
And... What's a groom's cake? I've never heard of one. What's the purpose of that one?
My FI absolutely loves ice cream cake. I say do it. And it represents you and your tastes, its not just another fondant cake from the boring wedding mold. The ice cream cakes I buy from the local ice cream shop actually say to take it out 40 minutes before cutting. Unlike a bowl of ice cream, ice cream cake stays in tact A LOT longer. I'm sure your guests will love it... and most importantly YOU will love it.
I SO wish I could do this. When I mentioned even ice cream to the venue coordinator, she got a "look" on her face. I hope you have success!
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I say go for it. What a wonderful idea!!! I made my Hubby an Ice Cream cake last year for his birthday and I know he would looovee and ice cream grooms cake. I would say as long as you have a freezer available and be prepared to cut it as soon as they are ready they do start to show signs of melting fairly early.
good luck I think its a great idea!
My FSIL had them at her wedding. The only crappy thing is you can't do a traditional "cut the cake" since they have to be rock hard with a hot knife to cut. So she had to have them plated and brought out. IMO, that part was a little sucky. But everyone seemed to enjoy it.
You also can't leave them out...and I know some people like to see the cake/take pictures.
I say go for it if you want it. I think you do have to leave them out 10 - 15 minutes before you can cut them anyway like someone else said.
To answer your question a groom's cake is usually a chocolate cake which is designed to reflect the groom's interests/hobbies/etc. I've seen some really awesome grooms cakes while googling :) Here's a link about groom's cakes:
I have a new problem. It turns out that the reception place doesn't actually have a freezer large enough for me to put a whole cake in. So my choices are to either not go for the ice cream cake, or to buy a freezer just for my cake... Does buying a freezer for my ice cream cake seem a little crazy? If it was a transparent freezer, I could even display the cake all night. I think I'm talking sci-fi now.
Karii, could you look into renting a freezer for the day instead of having to buy one?
How far away is the DQ that would potentially make the cake? Maybe they could just keep it at the store and deliver it right before the cake cutting time?
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2 ideas
1- dry ice in a back room in any container. It sublimates into gas so you don’t get melty puddles everywhere and you could keep it in your average camping cooler because it is colder than normal ice.
2- have the cake on a wheelie thing and have it brought out as a big deal. My friend who was married in France did this and the cake had sparklers on it and they played the chariots of fire song when it was wheeled in. Very spectacular.
If I were you, I would have the grooms cake be an icecream cake. I would not want to be worrying about the cake all night. Now I will give this idea to my fiance, he loves icecream cake!
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Okay, I realize this post was 3+months ago, but I just found it when googling "DQ Ice cream cake, wedding". Because fiance and I are sooooo doing this. We're just planning to do sheet cakes though. And maybe a round cake to display - either DQ or a "regular" cake.
We are frequent DQ customers and neither of us really like cake... so this was a natural choice for us. As a previous poster said, it needs to sit out for a good 10-15 minutes before you cut it anyway so it should be fine.
I don't know if they can do any kid of special decorating on it, besides their usual but I don't think you want Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles or some other licensed weird picture on it. But maybe you can get a plain one and bring it to another bakery to be decorated more elaborately? I don't know...
Good luck!
I know this is months after the original post too, but my fiancee hates regular cake so we're going to have a small ice cream cake (probably DQ or Carvel) for us and the wedding party and a normal sheet cake for the guests. This should save on costs (I don't want to think of how much an ice cream cake for 130 people would cost), and yes most ice cream cakes need to be taken out a bit before the cutting so we should be able to get good shots of it too.
If the venue doesn't have enough room, consider getting a small (like, smallest they have) ice cream cake and a regular sheet cake for everyone else.
i agree. i don't think the ice cream would hold. maybe serve it on the side?
I decided to have the ice cream cake for my stag/stagette rather than at the wedding itself. That way, I can enjoy more of it.
Oh man my FI LOVES ice cream cake too - why did I never think of this?!?! We still have leftover DQ cake in the freezer from his birthday last month LOL. I hadn't planned on having a groom's cake because two cakes seemed silly to me, but not so silly anymore! 
Um, I'm pretty sure this WOULD work.
DQ could make 3 round cakes: 6, 8, 10 (or whatever sizes they sell). You could stack them, put a ribbon on the bottom of each layer & have the waitstaff bring it out just before you're ready to cut the cake. Most ice cream cake needs to sit... so your guests wouldn't end up with puddles of cake. They recommend leaving out DQ cakes for 15 minutes before serving anyways. I say do it. :)
It can work!
Read about it here:
http://redsariwhitedress.blogspot.com/2010/11/conversation-1-ice-cream-cake.html
Thank you bees! My FI and I are gluten intolerant and we wanted an ice cream cake instead of a real one. Im so excited about it now!
We did this and it was a hit with the guests. We ordered a small, 5" cake for our cutting so we didn't have to worry about the messiness of the melting ice cream cake. It was one of my favorite parts of our reception!
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OK, I honest to god, LOVE DQ's ice cream cakes. I totally want a specially designed layered DQ ice cream cake for my wedding. I haven't asked a DQ's if they can do that yet, but everyone I've told this to thinks I'm crazy. They say it's just not feasible because it will melt and won't show nicely. Well I just want to show it for up to 10 minutes before I cut and serve it. Would that be so bad? Plus it's in the fall indoors. The only real problem I see is that the freezer might not be big enough. Am I crazy for wanting this?