Top Tips For a Scrumptious Wedding Cake

The new trends in wedding cakes allow brides to have a wedding cake that not only looks good - it tastes good too! Brides don’t need to settle for the traditional white vanilla wedding cake with the plastic bride and groom on top any more. From fruit cake to cheesecake, icing to ice-cream, there are many decisions to make when it comes to choosing a wedding cake to suit you, your fiance and your guests. Take a glance at the following tips to devise the delicious wedding cake you deserve.

Have a multi-flavored wedding cake! This is a great option if you can’t decide between one flavor or another, or if you want to give your guests a selection of wedding cakes to choose from. If you will be having three layers of wedding cake, you could have a layer of mud wedding cake, a layer of vanilla wedding cake and a layer of rainbow wedding cake, something for everyone!

For some extra flavor, have a wedding cake with filling. Talk to your baker about having a wedding cake filling made of white or dark chocolate, strawberry, mocha or preserves.

What about using a modern type of icing? While the traditional soft white icing is still very popular, white chocolate icing would be a delicious, and surprising, alternative.

Have a wedding cake with an unusual shape. At the moment, one very popular style is to have a wedding cake that resembles a stack of presents. This is a fun wedding cake, and generally has two or more square layers, is heavily decorated and tied with a bow.

For a modern looking wedding cake, think about having your layers made in different shapes. For example, a square layer, a heart shaped layer and an hexagonal layer would make your wedding cake modern indeed.

If your wedding will be having a color scheme, decorate your wedding cake to suit. If your color scheme will be rose pink, you could cover your wedding cake with small, romantic, pink rosebuds, either real or made of icing!

For a special touch, talk to your baker about using some of the detail on your wedding dress to make decorations for your wedding cake. If you take a picture of your dress to your bakery they should be able to copy some of the lace, beading or other decorations from your dress onto your wedding cake.

Get sentimental! Copy the wedding cake top your grandparents or parents used at their wedding. To make your, and the groom’s, parents feel extra special, serve them the first slices of wedding cake you cut yourself, before it is taken to the kitchen to be cut and served to your guests.

Personalize your wedding cake by having your, and the groom’s, initials intertwined in icing on your cake as decoration.

Have a wedding cake with a special meaning. For example, if you have been to France together, you may like to have a croquembouche. This is the traditional French wedding cake, a yummy tower of cream-filled pastry!

You may like to follow a special wedding cake tradition practiced in Bermuda. With this tradition, a tiny green tree is used as a wedding cake topper. After the wedding, the bride and groom can plant the tree in their garden and watch it grow, as their marriage does!

Add some accompaniments to your wedding cake for your extra sweet-toothed guests. Chocolates, fruit, sugared almonds or lollies can be placed on your guests’ plates for a decorative touch.

The look of the moment is a wedding cake decorated with fresh flowers. Some favorites include roses, carnations and pansies. These flowers can be made into cascade designs or other styles. For a simply stunning look, have one single, perfect, bloom on your wedding cake, such as a lily or orchid. Using fresh flowers to decorate your cake looks great and needn’t cost a fortune.