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Page 10 Wedding Supplement January 26, 1987 r f '0 v s Groom's Tux Free! Hurry! Limited time offer. with qualifying wedding MM; Formal Wear The Centrum 476-9093 Esquire Plaza 70th & 0 483-5226 WEDDING CAKE SPECIALTIES CUSTOM CAKE DECORATING COOKIES CANDIES PARTY FOODS SEWING & ALTERATIONS HANDMADE GIFT ITEMS SILK FLOWER CREATIONS 100 FREE MINTS IF ORDERED BY MARCH 15 (402) 476-0211 2105 S. CODDINGTON LINCOLN, NE 6852 A Things to get at Wagey Drug: is Cards is Candles Attendants' Gifts Cologne - Jewelry - Watches MkNaks -Billfolds s Party Ware streamers S Wrapping Paper 0 55th & South 17th & Washington 27th & Vine y t Ma 5 - ii I L BAKEKV 'f1 7 1 f 1 ..a Andrea HoyDaily Nebraskan Rich Mettler, vice president of Mettler Family Bakery, and employee Lynn Lewandowski kid around while giving out cake samples at a recent Wedding Fair in the Cornhusker Hotel. White takes cake s make corner bid cheesecake costs between $1 and $1.05 them at a recent bridal show. at his bakery, whereas a portion of "They're real big out there," he said. white cake is 50 cents. "They go for as much as $900. 1 think Traditional white still monopolizes Cheesecake costs more because it's we're the only bakery in Nebraska to wedding-cake sales, but three local heavier and "more solid" than white make them." By Mike Reilley Senior Editor bakers said some new flavors are mak ing a bid for a corner of the market. Cheese and alcohol-flavored cakes have arrived on the Lincoln wedding scene in the last few months, but sales show they have a long way to go before they catch the white cake in popular ity, said Rich Mettler, vice president of Mettler Family Bakery. One reason for the white cake's pop ularity is cost. Mettler said a piece of f .-ft n r i J A, p 4 a x : - t i .-. . - "i 5 ; i ,- -: "' I 4"' . L Inil y If you like our party pictures, you'll love our wedding pictures. The best of your life for the rest of your life. If1 Special Events Photography 1630 Que 475-8242 Free Parking 'Girls dream about a big, fancy wed ding cake. I've had girls tell me that they started pick ing out what kind of cake they wanted when they were 15.' Rich Mettler Alcohol-flavored cakes cost about $1 a serving, Pat Mettler said. Her bakery offers flavors such as Amaretto. Almost two-thirds of the cakes sold at Wedding Cake Specialities are white, chocolate or fruit flavored, said owner Pat Schmidt. The other one-third of sales are divided between 14 flavors, including the alcohol-flavored cakes, she said. Alcohol-flavored cakes "are kind of a trend," Schmidt said. "Anytime you introduce something new, it will catch on," she said. "I introduced candied lillies on my cakes at a bridal show the other day and they caught on like crazy. cake, Mettler said. A layer of cheese- "When you come up with a neat cake that weighs 14 pounds would design and promote it, that's what will weigh only five pounds if it were white sel1-" cake, he said. Choosing a flavor is only part of buy- Another reason the white cake out- in8 a wedding cake, Rich Mettler said, sells other flavors is tradition, said Pat Mettler, co-owner of the bakery. People grow up thinking everything in a wed ding should be white, so they're less willing to try something different when they plan one, she said. "The specialty flavors sell to people who are looking for something differ ent," she said. "A lot of times people will see something on the East Coast, then come back here and ask for it. The specialty cakes sell better out East. We're pretty square and basic back 1 la. nere in Nebraska. Other decisions include what kind of Still, the cheesecake is starting to groom's cake to buy, what type of CJS ??' Mettlerf Wh h0V? t0 r ament be on the cake and wha make the cakes from a fnend m Los flavors of frosting will be used Angeles, said he took orders for 12 of gH1 De used- See CAKE on 14 'People go to weddings for two reasons. They vant to see the bride, and they want to see the cake.' Pat Schmidt