WEDDING CAKE DESIGN

Styles

The tiered cake is typical at the majority of Weddings, but of course who says that you should just follow suit? More and more people are opting for quirky, dramatic, out of the ordinary cakes that really get people talking. One of the most striking Wedding Cake designs to hit these shores in recent times is the croquembouche. The croquembouche is a style that has come over from France, and it consists individual cream filled choux buns bound together in a brittle caramel sauce rising to a peak. Along a similar vein are Wedding Cakes made up of individual small cakes (cupcakes, meringues, fondant fancies etc) again laid up in a conical shape. Both the individual and croquembouche styles will really catch the eye of your guests and leave them salivating (although this is sometimes not a pretty sight!).

For a more quirky cake, you could always opt for something that is a little more fun and light hearted – a cake in the shape of a keyboard and monitor for all you techno-geeks out there, a grand piano cake for those of you who think you are the next Beethoven, a Fairytale Castle cake for the romantic big kid in you, or a Forever Friends cake for those couples who just like huggin’ and kissin’. As with everything Wedding Cake, the only thing that you are limited by with regards the style is your own imagination.

Colour

White is by far the most popular colour for Wedding Cakes in the UK and many will at least be part decorated in this colour – but, as you would expect (if you’ve read the bits above), you are not limited, and can feel free to express yourself using any colour you wish. Colour can be added to a cake in a number of ways; through coloured icing, decorative iced pieces, ornate flowers, or via the cake topper for example. Many couples will opt to factor in the colour scheme for the day into the cake, and you could do so in a subtle (using white as the base colour for the cake) or dramatic way (by having the cake fully iced in burgundy and gold for example if they are your colours).

Another recent emergence has been the chocolate Wedding Cake, and as this grows in popularity, so do the number of chocolate-brown coloured Wedding Cakes – of course, as with a white cake, you can still bring in the colour scheme via flowers, iced figures etc. If you do opt for a classic and contemporary white iced cake (and when we say this we mean pure white icing with absolutely no other decorative features to the cake) these can be just as striking – and there are cunning ways to add a dash of colour should you wish without do so on the cake itself – have a look at the decoration / presentation bit of this article to see what me mean.