Contemporary ideas for wedding cakes are going in a uniquely designed and colourful direction. Ideas for wedding cakes can and do come from everywhere. It can be a favourite colour, animal, flower, or even a video game. It’s probable that someone out there has already designed a cake to cater to your favourite themes, so consider the following suggestions.
A cake design featuring a three-tiered fondant cake frosted in white and decorated with small sugar daisies, would be excellent for an outdoor spring wedding or an indoor wedding where the colour theme is pastel. The small yellow blooms attract attention at the reception and you are sure to be complimented generously on the lovely choice of cake.
Grapevine Cake
Are you and your future spouse wine lovers, or perhaps you adore the Mediterranean countryside? Consider a four-tiered cake frosted in buttercream, with each tier lined with golden beads. Each tier also holds grapevine leaves that have been lovingly made from golden chocolate, as well as bunches of caramel-covered grapes. The top tier is decorated with a large cluster of grapes and this Tuscan cake is completed with caramel tendrils.
China Cakes
Ever thought of ordering a wedding cake covered in its own china pattern? These wedding cakes have a English pottery design dating from the nineteenth century, featuring intricate scenes and border patterns. Each decorative detail is piped in chocolate across a fondant icing. Wedgwood-style cakes, featuring the baby blue colour used in Wedgwood china and a decorative motif of fern leaves are a beautiful choice, completed with white beading and royal icing piped along the edges.
Couture Cakes
Impress your guests by replicating an aspect of your wedding dress on your wedding cake. As wedding gowns move towards colour accents and colourful flowers and embroidery for decoration, they can be used as inspiration for the cake design too. Cakes lined in ribbon bands and topped with formed sugar ribbons are proving popular. You can pick a colour from your dress or those of your bridesmaids to use as a colour theme for the cake. Embroidery from the wedding dress can also be used as scrollwork on the cake to add an elegant accent.
White on White
White seems simple, but this traditional colour lends elegance even to casual weddings, and will not clash with anything or be too outstanding, so it is not to be underestimated. There are numerous variations on this colour to choose from, so you have many choices. When the size and shape of the cake have been decided, the white frosting can be beautified with appliqués, dogwood petals made of gum-paste, meringue flowers in varying shades of white, strips of shaved coconut or blown sugar bubbles, to stick to the monochromatic theme. White is an amazingly flexible cake decoration option.
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