Wednesday, September 26, 2012

Wedding Cake Design Ideas

Traditional Wedding Cake

The traditional wedding cake is all white with classical understated designs. Along with the typical designs of swirls and dots, one can also go for basket weave, quilting designs, damask designs, etc. In the classical wedding cake, the designs are also made in white color or sometimes, in pearl or silver traces. Sugar paste flowers like roses, calla lilies, gardenia, etc., usually top the classic wedding cake.
Wedding Cake with Real Flowers

Now, if you wish to give your traditional wedding cake a more colorful look, then you can think of adding real flowers to it. Real flowers like roses and orchids are the most popular cake decorations. Sometimes, brides even wish to match or contrast their bridal bouquets with flowers. If you wish to make a wedding cake with flowers, you can use the classic white cake as the base as all flowers go with white color. Once you have decided the flowers, you can either go for the bouquet type cake or arrange the flowers in a cascading manner from the top. You can even sprinkle edible flower petals all over the cake.

Wedding Cake with Fruits

These cakes have also been favored since long time, and is equally popular today. In most of the cases, the cake used here is a traditional white cake topped or decorated with fresh fruits like strawberries, berry fruits, blueberries, grapes, etc. You can also make fruits using sugar paste and use them for decorating the wedding cake.
Colorful Wedding Cake

If the theme of your wedding is colors, then you can go for colorful cakes like the chocolate one. Red velvet wedding cakes, platinum cakes, blue/green cakes, etc., are also very popular these days. You can select one depending on the entire theme of your wedding. These colorful wedding cakes can be decorated with different cake decorating designs like swirls, henna designs; with flowers and fruits, etc.
Wedding Cupcakes

Wedding cupcakes can be easily made at home. There are many advantages associated with cupcake wedding cakes. Firstly, you can bake each cupcake with different flavor and decorate them in different patterns. Therefore, the guests can enjoy different cakes, rather than a single huge wedding cake. Wedding cupcakes is also one of the most favorite modern-day wedding cake designs.





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