Wedding Cake Ideas

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Great Ideas For Wedding Cakes

How To Make Your Wedding Cake Stand Out?

Wedding cakes nowadays are getting more and more varied and novel. If you also want your wedding cake to be different from the traditional wedding cake, then read on for a number of ideas that will make both your cake and your wedding special.

No wedding is complete without a cake. While traditional weddings mean black suits for the groom, ivory gowns for the brides and a white or crème multi layered cake; most people nowadays want to add a twist to tradition in order to make their weddings stand out from the rest. In fact, the easiest method of making your wedding different is to try out a different menu or select and serve a different kind of wedding cake. After all, the bride's gown, the bridesmaids' dresses and the wedding cake are things that are noticed by almost everybody and therefore, the simplest way of making your own wedding different is by choosing an unconventional cake.

One thing that most of your guests would appreciate is having a different flavor or frosting on your wedding cake, because it really gets a little boring during wedding season to keep hopping from wedding to wedding and sample the same kind of menu and exactly the same kind of cake everywhere. You can make your guests remember your wedding as being special simply by tweaking the flavor and the icing on your cake. Give the traditional butter cream and vanilla icing a miss and go for an icing that is not just different to taste, but different to look at as well. A wedding cake iced in dark colors and decorated delicately with colorful flowers and leaves will be remembered by people who have been sampling only white vanilla cakes throughout the wedding season.

Wedding Cake Flavors and Shapes 

Another way of making your wedding cake different is by choosing a different flavor or shape for your cake. Instead of the traditional multi-tiered or tower like wedding cake, why not try out a more exotic and different shape. Wedding cakes shaped like bouquets, gardens or vertical hearts definitely stand out from the rest. You can think of a cake that is symbolic of something in your relationship like where you first met or where you went on your first date. For example, a cake shaped like a ship would convey meaning if you met on a cruise and a baseball field cake would be meaningful and memorable for you if you met each other for the first time at a baseball match.

Apart from experimenting with different shapes and colors, you should definitely go for a different flavor to make your wedding cake special. You can also choose a multi layered cake with each layer being flavored and frosted differently. Just make sure that the colors and the flavors complement each other well.

Wedding Cake Placement 

In order to make your wedding cake look classy, stylish and different, you will also need to pay a little bit of attention to where it is kept and how it is presented. Wedding cakes installed around ice statues do look really classy, but the trend is quite common in high society weddings nowadays and most middle class people would rather spend their hard earned money somewhere else. However, if you like the ice statue idea then you might want to consider getting your cake installed around a small but beautiful fountain. These fountains are available in a wide variety of styles and designs and renting one is much cheaper than getting an ice statue. A cake that is designed around a fountain looks both different and stylish. What's more, you will easily be able to get a fountain to go with the theme of your wedding, if you have one.

Wedding Cake Cupcakes 

Apart from the above, having a wedding cupcake tree is very fashionable and stylish nowadays. When you go for a wedding cupcake tree, then you substitute having a large multi-tiered cake with a multi-tiered tree on which hundreds of little cupcakes are decoratively placed. Cupcakes are back in fashion, and if they have still not become very popular in your locality, then you can be the local trendsetter by choosing to go for wedding cupcakes instead of having the traditional wedding cake.

A large number of bakeries have nowadays started making wedding cupcakes on special order and you will easily be able to find one in your area that can cater for your wedding. If you are worried that you will not get to cut a wedding cake if you go for only wedding cupcakes, then rest easy because your baker will place a larger cake on the top of your tree that you can cut and share with your better half.

One major advantage of selecting wedding cupcakes over a single wedding cake is that you can manage to serve a lot of flavors to your guests and they will definitely remember your wedding for the variety of cakes that were served. If you plan to go for a large cupcake tree, then you can choose to have a number of different cakes with different icing recipes. Once again, it will be a good idea to ensure that the different cupcake recipes and cupcake icing recipes that your baker uses complement each other.

Make Your Own Wedding Cupcakes 

Wedding Cupcakes Cake
An easy way to make a spectacular looking wedding cupcake tree.
Engagement Cupcakes Cake
You could easily make this a wedding cupcake cake.
Fruitcake Cupcake Recipe
A fruitcake cupcake is ideal for a wedding because you can make it in advance.

Wedding Cake Doughnut 

Another wedding cake idea that is catching up is that of having a doughnut wedding cake. A beautiful looking arrangement is created from individual doughnuts of different flavors. Just like the wedding cupcake, the wedding doughnut cake is bound to be remembered first and foremost for being different from the traditional wedding cake. Apart from this, a lot of people actually prefer doughnuts to cakes and even those who do not might welcome the change from the traditional wedding cake. Another benefit of choosing a doughnut cake is that you can serve a large variety of doughnuts with different flavors and different icing recipes.

Wedding Cake Fun 

Whatever kind of cake you choose for your wedding, be it a doughnut cake, wedding cupcakes or the traditional wedding cake with a twist to make your wedding stand out, just make sure that both you and your prospective groom or bride love it. So wrack your mind for a cake that gels with your wedding, its theme and the people involved and you will manage to come up the perfect cake for the perfect wedding.

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